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Originally Posted by MartinSE
Wrong, did you get this from a vet, I bet you didn't.
This from a dog site:
Air Temperature Vs. Pavement Temperature
77 degrees F 125 degrees F
86 degrees F 135 degrees F
87 degrees F 143 degrees F
Pavement temperatures can be 40 to 60 degrees warmer than air temperatures.
When Does a Burn Occur?
Many factors influence when and how a burn occurs but at temperatures above 130 degrees Fahrenheit, skin will show signs of thermal injury within just 60 seconds. This means that if the air temperature is above 80 degrees Fahrenheit, the pavement could potentially be hot enough to burn a dog's feet if it stands on it for long enough (60 seconds).
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Good points, though I would add that a lot of factors go into the heat of the pavement: light grey concrete sidewalks won't get nearly so warm, all other things being equal, as will dark-colored or black asphalt. Light colors reflect heat to an extent while black absorbs more of it.
One thing that should be mentioned also is that summer days in the northern and northeastern states, even if the temperature is the same as here, won't have nearly as hot pavement as we get in TV. The reason is the angle of the Sun: the further south you go, the more direct the Sun's angle is when striking the pavement and consequently the hotter the pavement will get. It is the reason that lake ice melts in large part from the bottom up. In the early spring in Minnesota even though the daytime temperatures did not get much above freezing (and froze hard again at night) you'd still start to see black "rotten" ice forming below the hard clear ice on top.