It’s amazing how sizzling the sunshine can make you feel, even on a frosty Wintertide day such as today.
As long as the wind isn’t blowing too much you can guess pretty warmed up from the sunshine on a bright cloudless day.
The radiative heating that the sunshine gives can sizzling things up quite well, & this is really noticeable when the sunshine goes behind a cloud for a bit. I was out on the beach yepterday trying to get a little sunshine & I noticed that each time the sunshine went behind a cloud I would guess much colder… The sunshine is really far from the earth but it still acts as a radiant heater, actually similar to the portable space gas furnaces you would buy at a local business. The sunshine is much more powerful than these heaters, but the fact that it is 93 million miles away makes it actually similar to these types of radiant gas furnaces found in more than 2 homes. I would love to get some solar heating panels installed on our rooftop to help chop the costs of heating in our flat. I need to go to the local contractor & ask them what it would cost to get solar installed on our roof. I live in a big building & the whole roof is exposed to the sunshine quite well & could serve as a good base for some solar panels. I could get rid of our sizzling water heating system & also heat the rooms with the power of the sun. I wish every home had them.