Piano music courtesy of Bellevue Presbyterian Church
Heard on iHeart Radio, Nashville, Tennessee, more low-information weather forecasting. Here’s the offending phrase…
“Sunlight today will cause thunderstorms…”
“Sorry, Charlie StarKist wants tuna to taste good, not tuna with good taste….”
Sunlight does not heat the air, it’s transparent. What we call temperature is an illusion.
Sunlight heats the ground we walk on, which reflects into the air above, and that’s the temperature that we measure.
As the sun rises higher in the sky above us, more heat is reflected from the Earth. That’s why a sunny day in December is still cold; the sunlight is at a low angle relative to the Earth (ground) below.