Visit the Interactive Plate Boundary Map to explore satellite images of divergent boundaries between continental plates. Two locations are marked within the rift valley of East Africa and another location is marked within the Red Sea.
BIRMINGHAM, Alabama -- On a hot day, there is no safe time to be in a car with the windows rolled up. People don't realize how hot it it can get in there, said Dr. David Pigott, emergency physician at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.With an outside temperature of 90 degrees, the temperature inside a car can rise to 110 degrees in 10 minutes and 120 degrees in 20 minutes, Pigott said.atch how fast a car heats up inside on a hot summer day After the tragic death of an 11 month old child left in a closed up car happened Wednesday, I wanted to see just how fast a vehicle heats up with the windows rolled up.
Therefore, the temperature your car's thermistor is recording is the warmer temperature over the roadway, which has been heated by the sun. This can be 10-plus degrees warmer than the actual air temperature, which is measured about 6 and a half feet above a grassy surface, typically at an airport location.