With the very hot and sunny weather we are experiencing, a stationary car can turn into a baking oven in a short time.
The tropical weather of the past few days is a party for the enthusiasts among us, enjoy temperatures around thirty degrees and cool off in your swimming pool. for those who can't handle it a terrible time of staying indoors as much as possible with the air conditioning or fan.
Every year we hear and see it again in the news or in the newspaper, a dog or child that has been left behind in a parked car for a while. With the very hot and sunny weather we are experiencing, a stationary car can turn into a baking oven in a short time. This is dangerous for humans and animals. So don't leave children and animals in the car, not even for a few minutes, warns Jaco van Wezel, editor-in-chief and meteorologist of Weeronline.
It really gets hot faster in a car than you might think. The materials a car is made of are fairly thin, so bright sunlight can easily shine through and the material becomes extremely hot. Because the car is closed, the heat has nowhere to go and it gets hot in the car.
The color of the car also plays a role, white cars reflect the light and black cars absorb the light and convert light into heat. The air temperature in a car parked in the sun, if it is 25 to 30 degrees outside and sunny, can rise above 40 degrees in an hour. If it is 35 degrees outside, it can quickly rise to over 30 degrees in the car after 54 minutes. Even if you have driven a car with the air conditioning before, the temperature can rise very quickly.
The dashboard and steering wheel can even warm up to 70 degrees! The temperature also rises considerably on a cloudy and warm summer day, but about ten degrees lower than on a sunny summer day. The perceived temperature can rise even higher for humans and animals in a stationary car. The air humidity rises through your own breath and sweat. The higher humidity makes it feel even warmer.
Under these conditions, a two-year-old child gets a dangerous sunstroke after an hour. The body temperature then rises to feverish values of 39 degrees, with all its consequences. Leaving a window ajar makes no sense. Research shows that this only matters 3 degrees. So pay attention because according to weather online it will be quite warm in our country in the coming days.
