Hurray for state laws that have released the self-righteous upon us. My wife got confronted in a parking lot by self-appointed Dog Police. She was more polite than I would have been ("piss off...and go take a community college physics class"). I mean, sure, here in Texas it can get warm...
Oh, wait, we live in Seattle, where 90F is record-breaking heat. And it was 68F that day. If I were in that car, I would have been rolling the windows up a little for fear of getting chilly.
Oh, wait, we live in Seattle, where 90F is record-breaking heat. And it was 68F that day.
That's quite a dangerous myth to be propagating. Automobiles are greenhouses, a technology which allows them to reach substantially higher temperatures than the ambient air.
I'll say it again: it's Seattle. We're at a latitude where the sun on it's best day in July would get its ass kicked by Texas' December sun. And we have trees: lots of them. So if you're picturing my dogs sitting in a barren Wal-Mart parking lot in the blazing summer sun, where that chart might accurately apply, please reimagine the scenario. Picture a car parked beneath shady evergreens in a place where the sun weakly peeks above the horizon for a bit.
As for that chart, it might accurate in Florida. But I've tested our camper van with its picture rear window facing south all day in July. Approximately 70F ambient, it got to low-90s in there, not 104F. I don't know what the dogs did when I was growing up when it would be 90s for days on end, but I don't recall them dying in droves.
Though that chart is a good way to bring the problem to light, I guess, don't be breaking my window based on its presumed accuracy for all situations.
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Hurray for state laws that have released the self-righteous upon us. My wife got confronted in a parking lot by self-appointed Dog Police. She was more polite than I would have been ("piss off...and go take a community college physics class"). I mean, sure, here in Texas it can get warm...
Oh, wait, we live in Seattle, where 90F is record-breaking heat. And it was 68F that day. If I were in that car, I would have been rolling the windows up a little for fear of getting chilly.
That's quite a dangerous myth to be propagating. Automobiles are greenhouses, a technology which allows them to reach substantially higher temperatures than the ambient air.
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I'll say it again: it's Seattle. We're at a latitude where the sun on it's best day in July would get its ass kicked by Texas' December sun. And we have trees: lots of them. So if you're picturing my dogs sitting in a barren Wal-Mart parking lot in the blazing summer sun, where that chart might accurately apply, please reimagine the scenario. Picture a car parked beneath shady evergreens in a place where the sun weakly peeks above the horizon for a bit.
As for that chart, it might accurate in Florida. But I've tested our camper van with its picture rear window facing south all day in July. Approximately 70F ambient, it got to low-90s in there, not 104F. I don't know what the dogs did when I was growing up when it would be 90s for days on end, but I don't recall them dying in droves.
Though that chart is a good way to bring the problem to light, I guess, don't be breaking my window based on its presumed accuracy for all situations.