{"id":47407,"date":"2026-09-01T22:38:41","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T02:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=47407"},"modified":"2026-09-01T22:38:43","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T02:38:43","slug":"arizona-reduced-road-surface-heat-thanks-to-reflective-coatings-but-it-makes-ambient-air-even-hotter-jalopnik","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=47407","title":{"rendered":"Arizona Reduced Road Surface Heat Thanks To Reflective Coatings, But It Makes Ambient Air Even Hotter &#8211; Jalopnik"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jalopnik.com\/2247882\/arizona-road-surface-reflective-anti-heat-increases-ambient-temps\/?ICID=ref_fark\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/l-intro-1788200022.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:231px;height:auto\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The lighter roads absorb less heat, which helps with nighttime temperatures, but during the day, the air above the new asphalt is much warmer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jalopnik.com\/2247882\/arizona-road-surface-reflective-anti-heat-increases-ambient-temps\/\">Arizona Reduced Road Surface Heat Thanks To Reflective Coatings, But It Makes Ambient Air Even Hotter &#8211; Jalopnik<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">tl;dr: pavement cooler, air above hotter; at night, air above is less hot<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lighter roads absorb less heat, which helps with nighttime temperatures, but&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[1588,2302,2303],"class_list":["post-47407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-arizona","tag-heat","tag-roads","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47407"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47410,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47407\/revisions\/47410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}