The house is sitting in the high temperature of the surrounding atmosphere of summer highs.

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Wave Glider robots, like Alex, could potentially improve such forecasts by measuring water temperature in the oceans surrounding a storm.

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The air exiting the cave would be cooled by the thermal mass of the surrounding rock to within a degree or two of the yearly average temperature.

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