Say I am sitting in the shadow, but the sunlight gets reflected by some window pane onto me. Does this contain enough UV light to give me a sunburn?
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You can get a burn from a reflection. There’s a building in Las Vegas that caused this problem due to its windows and angle towards the sun.
There are too many variables to say if you’ll get a burn though.
According to this Stack Exchange answer, glass reflects around 4-100% of the UV in sunlight depending on the angle of incidence. So you could probably get a sunburn if the angle is low enough (like if the Sun is almost directly overhead and reflecting off a vertical window).
