90° In Denver, But Jackets Needed On Mount Evans & Trail Ridge Road

By Chris SpearsDENVER (CBS4) – The lower elevations of Colorado will climb into the 90s this Memorial Day Weekend with plenty of sunshine and Colorado blue sky.
But despite being closer to the sun, it’ll be much colder in the higher altitudes such as on Mount Evans and Rocky Mountain National Park’s Trail Ridge Road.
To grasp this concept we need a quick lesson in two concepts of physics.
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Lesson #1
Energy from the sun transfers from object to object without necess