Living by the coast, you may notice that vegetation and roadways cool down and heat up more quickly than our local bodies of ...

Water takes longer to heat up or cool down compared to air. That's because of something called heat capacity. Water has a high heat capacity. In comparison, air has a low heat capacity, so it gets ...

Researchers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory have created a series of maps showing land-surface temperatures in the Phoenix area in July 2023, when the city experienced a record-breaking run of hot ...