places like Cuba is hot because it's beside the equater, I want to know why, why is the equater so hot, but everywhere else is so cold half teh time!
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Because of the curve of the Earth, and the angle it spins at in relation to the Sun. The area around the equator gets the most sunlight year round. Take a basketball, hold it up to a lamp, tilt it 24 degrees, and slowly spin it. You will notice that the area around the middle of the ball, because it's round, is the first to lighten and last to darken.
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There is a La Nina condition contributing to this.  Since it is cold down there, it has to be warmer somewhere else. But the main factor is the Jet Stream. The cold you should be under is currently pummeling the USA.  If you are in Eastern Canada, you are probably getting warm air from the east.  But western Canada appears to be warmest, BC. You must have an indoor heated pool, though.\n\nI just posted a blog that contains a URL for Canadians to click.  This explains the El Nino Southern Oscillation fallouts for CANADA.  You are supposed to be cold.\n\nWhen you get to this short blog, just scroll down to where you see CANADA ir red:\n\nhttp://360.yahoo.com/ki_te_moana\n\nWe are living in a period when all things will alter.
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Only here in the temperate zone. The wind blows the right way near the poles and the equator.
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You might not have intended it, but your question is a lot more complex than you might have thought.  It turns out that the temperature of the sun is a function of how deep into the sun you are, with the surface temperature being about 6000 Kelvins.  To make things even more complicated, the Corona of the sun (which extends in all directions around the sun beyond the surface) is actually 1,000,000 Kelvins.\n\nThis fact is well established, but further research is required to understand *why* there is such a huge difference in temperature between the two.\n\nNow for the second part of your question:\n\nThe light intensity of the sun drops off as the inverse square of your distance from the sun.  The "heat" is another thing entirely, because heat is defined as the average kinetic energy of particles, and photons don't count strictly in that definition.\n\nThere are particles that come from the sun in the form of solar wind, and around the region of the Earth, they have a "temperature" around 1000k.
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I am in Johannesburg South Africa and today is bloody hot! i'm not sure the exact temp, but yesterday was like 33 degrees celcius!
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The distance to the center of the earth and most planets is greater at the equator than at the poles. This is due to the spinning of the object on its axis.
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You asked this question twice, and I posted a detailed solution in answer to your other question.  I know your teacher's answer is 49 degrees, but if you go to the nearest tenth of a degree, 48.9 is a better answer.
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In the mid-latitude regions like the 48 contiguous states of the US, the path of the sun (the ecliptic) across the sky is lower than it is in the tropics. \n\nIf you lived at the equator, the sun would pass directly overhead at true noon on an equinox day (it passes directly overhead where I live this week, and again in July). We say this is 90 degrees from the horizon.\n\nIf you lived at one of the poles, the sun would barely skim the horizon in the summer--getting only as high as 23.3 degrees, and not appear at all in winter. \n\nIf you lived at 45 degrees latitude north, the highest the sun would ever get in your sky is about 68 degrees from the southern horizon on the summer solstice.\n\nIf you were to trace the path of the sun from the horizon as it rises and sets--you might suffer permanent damage to your eyes, so don't--you would find that in North America the angle is more acute than it is in the tropics, because of the lower path in the sky.\n\nFor these two reasons, the sun spends more of its "day" near the horizon in the US than it would in many places in India. On the other hand, there are some places in the US that are farther south than some places in India!
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wtf why did you ask the same question as me?\n\nactually i was talking about fahrenheight as in temperature,so our questions are different, it's all good.
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It's daytime, because of physics. \n\nTo make this simple, just think that since water takes longer to heat than the earth, the air over water is cooler than the air over land. There's some physics law that says everything will reach an equilibrium in temperature. So, the air above will ocean will be moving towards the land to try to equalize. \n\nIn contrast, at night, the air over land cools faster than the air over water. Thus, the breeze goes into the sea. \n\nGood luck!
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the past couple of years we have had warm winters.  I live in Panama City Beach, Fl which is about 8 hours away.  This past year I believe that the temp got as high as 85 here, so I can only imagine how warm it is there.
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They were chasing here in Ohio, last week. I haven't been out, since it warmed up. It may be related to this funky heat wave. I know it is supposed to get cold again after this next front comes through. It is supposed to cool down by Friday here, so it should drop where you are Thursday. Best of luck to you.
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our bodies constantly generate a lot of heat because of our metabolism. So we have to constantly lose heat to maintain our normal temperature. \n\nIf you put a bucket of warm water outside, and that warm water just happened to be 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit, but the outdoor temperature was 85 degrees Fahrenheit, the water would cool down. That's because the outdoor temperature, while still warm, is cooler than the temperature of the water. Heat naturally flows from warmer places to cooler places. The heat's "goal" is to reach equilibrium–a state where everything is the same temperature as everything that surrounds it. That's why a hot bowl of soup or a cold glass of soda will eventually reach room temperature if you leave them out long enough.\n\nThe difference between you and a bucket of water (well, one of many differences) is that your body is constantly generating more heat. All that heat has to go somewhere, so it tries to escape through your skin. The greater the difference between the outside temperature and the temperature of your body, the faster that heat will escape. That's why you'll feel much cooler on a 60-degree day than on a 90-degree day.
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This is an old math riddle.  Mathemeticians and physisists like to refer to absolute zero (Kelvin scale, with no negative numbers), instead of Fahrenheit or Celsius (which are relative to the freezing and boiling points of water at sea-level).  \n\nTechnically, in a relative scale it makes no sense to speak of doubling or halving the temperature.  (If it is 0 degrees (F or C), then doubling or halving would still be 0, which makes no sense.)  \n\nA less scientistic but more human approach is to postulate a base temperature that most people find comfortable.  Let's say it's 70F (21C, 294 Kelvin, 529 Rankine, 17 Reamur).  If today is "cold", it means less than 70F.  E.g., maybe today was 50F.  So it was 20 degrees (F) colder than is comfortable (70 - 50 = 20).  If tomorrow will be "twice as cold," it will be 70 - [2 x (70 - 50)] = 70 - (2 x 20) =  30F.  Quite cold!
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The sun is about 15 million degrees C. at its core and about 11000 degrees C. on its surface. Way too hot for anyone to get anywhere close to it.
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A fundamental axiom: cold air is heavier than warm air.\n\nThus, cold air sinks (like into a valley) and hot air rises.\n\nHowever, the temperature gradient (how temperature changes with increasing altitude) is negative.  This means air gets colder as altitude increases.  So what we have is cold air at altitude pushing down on warm air near ground level.\n\nThe warm air heat comes from the ground, which is heated by our Sun.  In summer, there is a lot more of that solar energy to heat the ground and lower air in the valley than in winter.  Thus, the valley air is warm.  In fact, the weight of the colder upper air contributes a little bit to the heat below because a gas under pressure does heat up.  But in winter, when there is far less solar energy and resulting heat, the naturally colder air above settles into the valley.  \n\nBoth the cold and warm air are more or less trapped in the valley because of the hills or mountains surrounding it.  Thus, the cold air stays colder because no warm air is blown from the surroundings into the valley.  And the warm air stays warmer because no cold air is blown into it.