Why you don't leave a child or animal in a car during high temperatures.

Submitted: Thursday, Jan 10, 2008 at 18:58
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I left work today to go to a meeting around 4.30pm. The temperature gauge in the car, after ten minutes on the road still indicated an ambient 43C.

The fridge also has a dual temperature gauge. Both internal, and ambient within the car. Here are the results:

Car temperature=71.5C (160.7F)
Fridge internal temperature=57.9C (136.2F)

The fridge was facing away from the afternoon sun.

Even allowing for a significant margin, and the fact that the car was partly under shade...... the heat was very high.

PS Hope I've got my conversions right.

Regards

Kim
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