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Old 18th Oct 2012, 07:56
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I do. Hence asking about variations from the same lattitude...

The sun causes the earth to heat, which of course causes warm air to rise leading to all sorts of things happening in the atmosphere.

At night the heating effect isn't there so I would expect the air to be colder - not immediately, but as the earth cools so will the air above it.

Surely there are some with experience of this from their own cockpit?
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