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21 June 2011
Are you hot?→[More:] I am! Up to 102 here today. How are you dealing?
One thing that works well: Michelada. Pour a Mexican beer over ice, salt, and lime. So refreshing!
102?! Only 85 here but humid with thundershowers every night. We rewired the house last year so AC is actually a possibility but we haven't bought a unit yet.
The cliche is true: it's not the heat, it's the humidity. I am already incredibly happy that I bought an ice shaver at Target. That's gonna get me through the summer. Red Bull slushies! Fresh fruit sno-cones!
Not here in the naturally air conditioned Pacific NW, at least in the sense of dealing with hot weather. But I do find that with age my personal thermometer is more and more wacky.
It's around 60F here right now (nearly 10.30pm) and it's been in the mid-60s the last few days, with a lot of wind and rain. I don't mind it being cool, since I hit the menopause I have my own built-in furnace.
I am woman, hear me roar - "Open the fucking window!"
My happy in the earlier thread: A couple of weeks ago I got a blender so that I can make smoothies. I go outside in the hottest part of the FL day to hose the ponies down; I generally get a little wet myself, but I still come in panting and sweating. It's so disgustingly miserable out there. Ooooooh it's nice to have a cold slushy drink when I'm that hot. This one little thing is making all my days SO much better.
It's hot here. We've been lucky because there have been nice breezes most days. Central Florida has been ravaged with forest fires so a lot of days have been smoky, which is not pleasant. We have had a few thunderstorms so things are a bit better.
San Jose just cracked 70 last week. It's almost July and summer hasn't really even started here, which is completely abnormal. We usually get some 90s by now.
This morning I was in Burbank, emptying my storage unit. It was in the mid-80s by the time I left at 10AM. Getting to Ventura/Santa Barbara, it was overcast/almost-foggy and 60s, then going up the part of Hwy 101 that isn't close to the coast it got hot, getting back to the coast-hugging in Pismo Beach it was cool again (and the ocean waters visible from the highway were a darker-but-brighter shade of blue than I'd EVER seen ocean water before, freaking me out). When I got home (a few miles inland) at 1:30PM, my neighbor told me that the temperature had dropped over 10 degrees in the previous half-hour from mid-80s to mid-70s (apparently the coastal inversion had just made it into my neighborhood). So on top of all the other eventful stuff today (I should write a "Three-Point" post, but it'd be at least Seven Points), I passed through as many micro-climates as I ever have in one day.
Our AC died last Thursday. It got up to 84 overnight. By the AC guy fixed it on Friday it was 90 degrees in our house. Compared to that... no, I'm not really that hot.
moonshine, you take an exhaust fan--the kind you'd use in a bathroom, kitchen, etc.--and put it in a room's window. It sucks the air out of the room and replaces it with cooler air from the environment, window etc. Make sense?
If the temperature inside is exactly the same as the temperature outside then this won't help but I doubt that's the case especially at night.
The exhaust fan really works if your place is set up so that you can open a window downstairs and create a direct flow of air up to the second floor exhaust fan.
Yeah, that does make sense. Thanks. Now if you don't mind a rather pitiful question. What's the difference between a box fan and an exhaust fan? My google-fu is failing me.
I think it's the same thing, only the thing I got is much stronger than your regular compact box fan. It's all metal the whole way through. I also got a regular stand/pedestal fan yesterday and I was getting frustrated cause many of them were dainty little pieces with lots of plastic but found a big metal fan for like $80. Now in combination they work great, stand fan at my face, exhaust in the window, and there's like six ceiling fans that I turn on from time to time (my home office is basically a 'floor' so it's large-ish)
Truth is though, when humidity kicks in you can have all the ventilation you want, it's still going to be a killer without some sort of AC or other way to condense it
Darn! That's what I thought. The internet makes exhaust fans sound amazing, though -- "cleans the air by drawing out moisture" -- sounds like magic! I actually have a spare exhaust fan around, but it's the kind that needs to be wired in. I'll have to look into this more. Thanks for your help, Firas!
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