Why does the ambient temperature of the outside temperature always get colder just before daybreak?
…so the longer it’s been since the sun has been shining on this particular part of the planet, the colder it will get. Weather patterns may come in and disrupt that theory, but generally, night gets colder and colder until day breaks. If you find that there is always a specific drop in temperature right before dawn, not a general cooling trend all night, then I’d check with a local meterologist if that’s correct and what regional factors might contribute. I live in Denver, on the eastern slope of the Rockies. In the later spring and early summer, we tend to get a half hour rain shower most days, right about 4:30. It has to do with the cooling of air as it passes over the mountains and enters the plains. So geographic and regional factors can contribute to unusual and recurring weather patterns. But in general, it’s that giant ongoing nuclear explosion, or rather, the lack of it, that causes the cooling thing.