Staying Cool

[W5WPL]

The temp here in South Texas is over 100 again.
The power company asks us to conserve.
It cost about $5.25 to cool this place each day.
So this evening the AC in off. And I forgot just how much sweat and a fan can cool you off.
I can remember my younger days in an attic sweating profusely in about 140 degrees and feeling "not comfortable" but okay and able to do the job without
passing out. I felt good.
And this evening I feel okay. But "BOY" do I stink!!!!

[WB2WIK]

I love L.A.!

It's 90 daytime, 58 nighttime with 10% humidity daytime and 30-40% nighttime.

After dark, our AC is always off and the windows are open. It gets cold at night. Brrrrrrr. That's L.A.

Probably also why a 1 bedroom shack not suited for a dog to live in costs $250K.

[WF7A]

Yup, it was 108 in the shade this afternoon here in South Austin. Wouldn't you know it--we had a fire drill at work today. I told my boss that I'd be cooler burned to death inside the building than going outside.

Smartest move I made all week: changing the oil in my bike last Sunday using 20W/50. (It's air-cooled so it gets mighty hot. Amsoil synthetic motorcycle oil rules!)

[KW4MW]

The temp here in South Texas is over 100 again.
The power company asks us to conserve.
It cost about $5.25 to cool this place each day.
So this evening the AC in off. And I forgot just how much sweat and a fan can cool you off.
I can remember my younger days in an attic sweating profusely in about 140 degrees and feeling "not comfortable" but okay and able to do the job without
passing out. I felt good.
And this evening I feel okay. But "BOY" do I stink!!!!

I knew an old fellow that was stationed somewhere in southern Florida during WWII - pre A/C.

He recalled that just prior to bedtime he and his wife would soak a bed sheet in water and then wring it almost dry.
Then with a fan at the foot of the bed they would crawl under the damp sheet and hopefully fall asleep before the sheet dried out.
Made sense to me, cooling by evaporation.

[KO6WB]

The southwest is the place to have an evaportive cooler but only when the humidity is low enough to allow the water to become a vapor. During the summer is the time places like AZ, NM, UT and CO get what is called the monsoon season. These are intense thunderstorms that come rolling through with very high winds, hail and rain. They don't last very long and while they are above you everything is fine. It's cooler then 115 degrees at that moment. Then the storm moves on and the Sun comes blazing back. Now the humidity is off the scale. If it weren't for air conditioning nobody would live there except during the winter. It's nice then with an occasional cold front reminding you that yes it does get below freezing at times.
73
Gary

[AC0FP]

I figured it was Texas providing the hot south winds today. My wife doesn't like the heat but consents to turning the air conditioning up in the day time but insists on turning it down at nighttime. At least I have an electric blanket. Yes, she needs to lose a few pounds!

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[W0JBC]

I love L.A.!

It's 90 daytime, 58 nighttime with 10% humidity daytime and 30-40% nighttime.

After dark, our AC is always off and the windows are open. It gets cold at night. Brrrrrrr. That's L.A.

Probably also why a 1 bedroom shack not suited for a dog to live in costs $250K.

Steve ,

You should move to South-Central or East LA ...

It doen't cost $ 250 K to live there .

WOW !!!!!! Another senseless post for the count .


J.

[AC0FP]

I love L.A.!

It's 90 daytime, 58 nighttime with 10% humidity daytime and 30-40% nighttime.

After dark, our AC is always off and the windows are open. It gets cold at night. Brrrrrrr. That's L.A.

Probably also why a 1 bedroom shack not suited for a dog to live in costs $250K.

I remember sitting in Seoul at the Hilton for lunch with the company president in the 80's. He told me his daughter and new husband wanted to live in LA so he bought them a two bed room house that he described as a WWII cracker box for $275,000. Update, I saw his son-in-law in the 90's they were living in Kansas City, He said it was a lot safer!

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[WA6MHZ]

The paper says lately Kansas and Nebraska are the hottest places in the country, surpassing Phoenix!!! 115!!! Man, thats hot! and not even JULY YET!!!

[N8CPA]

CMH is under excessive heat warning for today and tomorrow--which usually means an ozone alert and advisories against small engine mowing. Think I'll stay inside.