Thanks to The Weather Channel we have learned something that quite frankly, I'm sure that most of you had no clue about. 

Did you know, that if you sit inside a car that's not running, with the windows rolled up and out in the sun, it can get real hot? 

Now really! It does. 

To prove this amazing experiment, Weather Channel reporter Alyssa Hyman locked herself in a car to show people that it actually does get hot. 

Hyman streamed her time inside the hot car Thursday. Her vital signs were being monitored by Cobb County fire and EMS worker the entire time. If her body temperature reached 100 degrees, she was supposed to get out of the car.

“This is not just a demonstration to be dramatic or to make good video. There is a point behind all of this,” Hyman said as they hooked her up with sensors.

The window was cracked so she could talk with firefighters. It was 88 degrees in the parking lot of The Weather Channel in the Cumberland area.

Even with a window cracked, according to the CDC, the temperature inside a car can rise 20 degrees within the first 10 minutes.

She said the temperature had gone up two degrees about six minutes after getting inside.

After about 12 minutes, the firefighter decided it was time to pull Hyman out of the car.

She felt she could have gone longer, but her body temperature was 100. She had sweat stains on her clothes and was a bit shaky.

Sipping on a blue Gatorade, the reporter explained that this exercise was to remind folks.

“We’re not doing this for drama here. We’re doing this to make you think twice,” she said.

Yeah ok....you keep saying that and maybe someone will believe you. 

Let's hope Hyman can wipe enough sweat off her hands to hold her brand new Emmy. 

This is a lock to win one. 

H/T Atlanta Journal Constitution