Or that's the version we were told, anyway. The teenagers were called Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, and their school was Columbine High, an idyllic sounding place nestled between the Denver metropolitan area and the foothills of the Rocky Mountains.
This is because the amount of sunlight the reaches the equator changes very little, although the temperatures do vary somewhat during the rainy season. Measurement: The average surface temperature on Earth is approximately 14Â°C; but as already noted, this varies.
There is no accurate and consistent single temperature of the surface of the Earth. The temperature varies moment to moment, and from one point to another-and from century to century. However, if you averaged over space over the course of a year, the average temperature would be about 16 degrees Celsius.