What do you want for nothing?

[digitS']

Cool air.

It was 102ºf a couple of days ago, warmest afternoon this year. Overnight, the thermometer dropped 40º, to 60º.

I had the air conditioning set up by then but did my best to move cool morning air into the house that morning and every morning. Before having the afternoon refrigerated air, and with temperatures reaching into the 90's, it was never warmer than 77º in the house. A little warm but not insufferable.

Some neighbors have windows open all night ... some, all day! Night and Day?? Why do people do this? I used to think that it indicated children in the house and with the activity of ins-and-outs, they couldn't keep the doors closed long enough to make a difference. I've found this notion is wrong with some childless neighbors. One lady was out on her porch fanning herself with the other 2 adult residents looking on with real concern. The door and windows were open and it was cooking outside!

Steve

 

[so lucky]

I couldn't believe my brother and sis-in-law who are in Eugene don't have AC. it was about 86 when we were there, but it wasn't hot inside. But they have a shady yard and appropriate ventilation. Again, I reiterate, it's the humidity in the Midwest and South and East that makes us swelter. And, speaking strictly for myself, that makes us (me) cranky and lazy.
We open our patio door early morning, and occasionally early evening. The rest of the time it's too hot, humid, buggy.

 

[thistlebloom]

We close everything up by 7:30ish a.m. and run fans to keep the air moving. It fools you into believing it's not so hot.
The house stays reasonably cool until about 3:00 when the sun hits the slider and windows on the west side of the house. Even with the curtains and blinds shut the heat seeps in. After that, when it's really hot outside, I watch the clock until 7 when the sun has gone far enough below the treeline and I can fling all the windows open again and get rid of the stuffy warm air inside. It can get above 80 inside when we've had consecutive days of high heat.

At night we have all the windows open with the box fans blowing cool air in and it usually gets down to 64 before we close it all up again. I appreciate the cooler air inside, but it makes me a little claustrophobic to have all the windows shut.

 

[Nyboy]

I hate a hot house in winter and hate it more in summer. I have had friends ask me for a sweater in July and Aug. Once AC is turned on it stays on

 

[digitS']

I can understand the claustrophobia ...

My little AC unit can cool 3 rooms okay but I only ask it to do 2, and one's the kitchen. With cooking going on, and western exposure for both living room and kitchen, I'm inclined to hang a curtain between the two rooms. I have to be careful that the living room isn't frigid!

Anyway, I have trouble staying long in 2 rooms with the doors closed around me. Fortunately, I'm fairly comfortable in the hot outdoors.

It's 88º (and, @so lucky , I expect the humidity to fall to 12% as it did yesterday ). The neighbors across the road are not the ones I was talking about in the first post. They have AC, maybe it's not on but their front door and a window are open. But, there are kids in that house. Yep.

Steve
going out under the blue, blue sky ... plan on hanging out in the shade

 

[Rhodie Ranch]

107 on Saturday, 106 yesterday and a forecast for 104 today. And we're moving...try loading a POD in this heat! I tell ya, the West is on Fire - figuratively and literally.

 

[Nyboy]

wow last night it went down to 63 unheard of for July in NY

 

[Beekissed]

We finally broke down and got a small window AC after all these years without AC. Last year convinced us that this abnormal heat is no longer abnormal..it's now the norm for summers here.

When we know the temps are going to reach into the high 80s and 90s we close windows in the morning, pull all the blinds, close some doors to some rooms, pull an insulated curtain across one door way, turn on the AC in Mom's room and run fans to circulate the cool air out of her bedroom and through the house. Stays reasonably cool that way and cools off her room for when night falls.

Come sun down we turn off the AC, open those windows and run fans to get the cool night air. If it's too awful hot at night, Mom shuts her door and runs the AC on low. My room is small and has a huge window, so the fan normally works for me, no matter how hot it is at night.

Usually only have to do that some days in July, more days in August, but usually just those two months do we use the AC.

 

[catjac1975]

We put in a ac in the bed room a few years back. The rest of the house gets great cross breezes. If it's unbearable I go take a break in the bedroom. When my husband had a summer knee replacement we also put one in a down stairs bedroom for a short while. That was a really bad summer. We are on a river that empties in a harbor that is a part of Buzzard''s bay, about a quarter mile away. I keep saying we will one day have expensive ocean front property.

 

[digitS']

A quarter mile isn't very far, @catjac1975 .

The thermometer will be below 60° for a few mornings as we now return to more normal temperatures. Hottest weather should be right at the end of the month but we will see. The daily 30°+ temperature swings now is because it's so early in the summer. On our 4th of July drive, we passed a mountain about 3,000 feet higher than where I live. Snow was still on its north slope.

Those big swings are real noticeable in September as the nights grow longer. That's when the anxiety levels are tested as a pleasant 70° is followed by the threat of frost ... but, we aren't there, yet!

Steve