On Sun, 30 Jul 2006 13:41:05 -0400, Dick Allen <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>The accounts I've read give the temperature as the surface temperature. I 
think the exterior
>temperature would not be quite that hot.

Dick, please show us these "accounts you've read", for the benifit of the 
Bee-L readers, please support your comment with references.

I know where my refrences are, but I won't do your homework for you.  :)

All sources I have located show “above 70c for exterior temps”.

Dick, try taking an exterior temperature an inch or two above the hood of 
your car, I would think the exterior temp would be hot a that place.   How 
hot could exterior temperatures around a hive several inches above a dark 
surface such as a ’black lava’ field on a hot day get?  Ask any roofer or 
road paver that question!  :)

Joe
  


  

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