Why is the stevenson screen painted white?
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The term Stevenson screen is an old word for a pleated wood enclosure that held weather instruments and it is painted white in the enclosures to decrease the effects of heating that are caused by solar radiation and also the pleats allowed the wind to flow through the enclosures and maintain close to ambient conditions.
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Scroll down/across to the opposite corner. Click the white space A small blue square should appear on the corner Click and Drag. Source(s): MSPaint.
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Whether you’re using a keyboard shortcut (such as Alt+PrtScr) or the Snipping Tool that Vista added to the Windows Clipboard to take a picture of the screen, Windows Paint may
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He wanted to check his e-mail.
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i'm pretty sure brilliant white is not best colour, should be off-white/grey. see here
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