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Hot or Cold?

As a Matter of Fact

on January 1, 2025

Temperature plays a key role in helping God’s creation to function well. Too hot or too cold? These temperature facts are just right.

  • Your body keeps itself at the right temperature through thermoregulation. When it’s hot, you sweat to cool down. When it’s cold, you shiver to warm up.
    • The sun's core measures around 27,000,000ºF.
  • The temperature determines a flame's color. A red flame is 1,112–1, 800ºF. Orange fire is near 2,000ºF. A blue flame can be over 4,500ºF.
  • Water boils at 212ºF (100ºC) and freezes at 32ºF.
  • Sleeping in a cool room (60–68ºF) helps you sleep better.
  • Countries around the world use three scales to measure temperature—Kelvin (K), Celsius (SEL-see-us) (ºC), or Fahrenheit (FEH-run-hite) (ºF).
    • The coldest parts of outer space can get down to -453ºF!
  • The coldest air temperature recorded on earth was -128.5ºF in Antarctica.
  • Absolute zero Kelvin is the coldest possible temperature—equal to -459.69ºF!
  • The hottest air temperature recorded on earth was 134.1ºF in Death Valley, California.
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