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It's hot outside
(lemmy.world)
Memes. For metal music.
Don't be an ass and try to keep the gatekeeping and whatnot to a minimum. Memes from all sorts of metal genres and bands are welcome here.
Out of curiosity, aren't clothes actually heat the same under the sun? It's infrared albedo that matters after all, not the visible specturm one, no?
No, white clothing does reflect more heat than black clothing. However the answer to which is better to wear in hot weather is "it's complicated", the TL;DR is that for tight clothes white is better, for loose clothing black and white are the same.
I think it also depends on how hot it is, since anything more reflective (a white shirt) is also more insulating. So if it's just kind of hot out, black would probably be better.
Light gets converted into heat, white rejects more light before it can do that.
Colors work by which parts of the light spectrum get absorbed and which get reflected. A shirt that absorbs most wavelengths, but largely reflects green, will look green.
And in that same vein, colors will appear darker, if less light is reflected in general. So, a white shirt may reflect 90+% of light, whereas a black shirt may absorb 90+% of light.
And ultimately, absorption means that the light's energy is turned into warmth. So yeah, a darker shirt heats up more in the sun.