• makeshiftreaper@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    I don’t know if this could inadvertently dox you but I’d be curious to see an hourly outside temperature too to see how much hotter a mailbox gets than outside. Based off your first graph here I’m wondering if cars having glass windows makes a greenhouse effect that would make a car hotter than a mailbox, everything else equal?

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      5 months ago

      Seems like a worthwhile thing to do! I’m not worried about doxxing, since someone would have to go to pretty extreme measures to correlate with the exact climate where I’m at. I installed the sensor after the hottest time of day had already passed, but here’s what it looked like:

      A graph showing the outside temperature versus the temperature in the mailbox.

      I’m pretty sure the spikes in the mailbox temperature were due to cloud cover.