Coolest Times of the Day/Evening During
August
This is with regards to times between 3 AM and noon in the morning and
between noon and midnight in the evening. These are two time segments
during which I feel comfortable doing outdoors exercise or work. I was
wondering, at what time during these time segments, does the temperature become
the coolest?
On five out of seven of the days shown in the table
below, the temperature was cooler in the morning than it was in the evening.
Generally the coolest morning temps were five degrees cooler than the coolest
evening temps.
Judging from the seven days shown in the
table, the coolest time of the morning seems to be 448 AM; the coolest time in
the evening appears to be 1107 PM.
Meaning that roughly speaking during August, the
coolest time temperature-wise for a two-hour outdoor workout during the morning
would be 4 AM - 6 AM; and the coolest time during the evening would be 10 PM -
midnight.
The highest temp of the day during the seven days
was on average 18.7 degrees higher than the coolest morning temp, and 14.5
degrees higher than the coolest evening temp.
The highest temp of the day on average was at 307
PM. This indicates a good time for a 'Siesta' or a trip to a library
featuring cool air conditioning would be 2 PM - 4 PM.
I find myself to be surprised regarding how
ignorant I have even very recently been, regarding: what is the warmest time of
the day; what is the coolest time of the morning; what is the coolest time of
the evening; and, the difference on average between the warmest time of the day
and the coolest time of the morning or evening. I was suprised to find that on
average the highest temp of a day was almost 20 degrees cooler than the coolest
temp in the morning. I suspect that huge numbers of people are similarly
ignorant.
I suspect this ignorance has to do with people
becoming used to air conditioners cooling off rooms and automobiles. Yet in the
present economic circumstances it behooves society and individuals to learn how
to reduce their air conditioning expenses. In the kind of economy we are facing,
we need to learn how to make maximum use of the great (and at least for now
free) outdoors, and one way to do this is to learn to understand the
temperature fluctuations during the day.
In general and especially when an economy declines,
the outdoors as a place to perform work or engage in recreation or exercise, is
important. In order to perform work activities that involve being outdoors at a
maximum level of performance and comfort, we need to understand temperature
fluctuations during days and nights. It's alot easier to gradually acclimatize,
as opposed to suddenly heroically exposing oneself to temps/humidities one is
not used to and which could endanger one's health.
According to http://www.usatoday.com/weather/wheat3.htm a temperature as low as 80 degrees when combined with a humidity of
100% produces what feels like 91 degrees, a state of the weather during which
one should exercise 'extreme caution'.
It stuns me that although I have on millions of
days, watched it seems thousands of credentialed TV 'meteorologists'
dancing around a screen showing weather maps (they never have a weatherman who
is not a credentialed meteorologist), none of these meteorologists despite all
their verbosity has ever imparted to me any knowledge regarding how
temperatures fluctuate during a day. This strikes me as symptomatic of the ills
of hyper-credentialism and a lack of common sense in society.
An interesting stat is the 'apparent temperature'
(http://www.usatoday.com/weather/wheat3.htm), which combines the humidity and the scientifically measured
temperature, to produce a stat indicating what the temperature feels like. This
'apparent temperature' stat is similar to the wind-chill index, which reveals
what the temperature feels like taking into account how hard the wind is blowing
and what the scientific-instrument-measured actual temperature is.
It would be simple, if one knew (the simple
obfuscated secrets regarding) how to link up Javascript programming
language with the contents of server-side databases, to produce information
showing at what time during the day the 'apparent temperatures' will be the
coolest and the hottest.
Yet amazingly I have never seen any of the TV
weathermen and weatherwomen who pirouette around the flashy weather graphics,
give me any info regarding at what times of the day/evening the 'apparent
temperature' will be the coolest or warmest. Amazing.
During the middle of the week for which data is
shown in the table below, on August 13, the sun rise (actual not nautical
or civil sunrise) was 550 AM, and the sunset (actual not nautical or civil
sunset) was at 749 PM. Thus for now for me, a simple rule is that
the coolest time of the morning is the two hours after two hours before actual
sunrise, and the coolest time in the evening is the two hours starting three
hours after actual sunset.
Table: Coolest and Warmest times of Day/Evening
During a Week in August
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Morning
Cool
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3 AM -
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Evening
Cool
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PM times
noon
midnight |
Highest
Temp
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8/16
/09
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556 AM
66.0 F
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1056
1156 PM
75.0 |
1256
156
256
356 PM
90.0 F |
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8/15
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556 AM
61.0 F
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1156 PM
72.0 F
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156
256
356 PM
90.0 F |
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8/14
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256 AM
57.0 F
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1156 PM
71.1 F
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356
456 PM
86.0 F |
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8/13
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356
456
556
656
756 AM
66.0 F |
1150 PM
57.2 F
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156 PM
71.1 F
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8/12
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256
356
456
556 AM
66.0 F |
903 PM
66.2 F
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351 PM
75.2 F
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8/11
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256
356
456
556 AM
72.0 F |
1044
1056
1122
1130
1156 PM
68.0 F |
1256 PM
87.1 F
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8/10
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327
334
341
66.2 F
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856
956
1156 PM
73.9 F
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356
456
86.0 F
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448 AM
64.9 F |
1107 PM
69.1 F
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309 PM
83.6 F
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@2009 David Virgil Hobbs