Land Temperature
How hot the ground itself gets — deserts scorch while high plateaus stay frozen in full sun.
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Daytime land surface temperature from MODIS — not air temperature, but the temperature of the ground itself, which is why deserts read hotter than any weather report.
The Sahara and the Australian outback glow hottest; the Tibetan Plateau stays cold at noon despite sitting at subtropical latitudes — altitude beats latitude.
Data: NASA Earth Observations (MODIS land surface temperature) →
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