It's hotter than a whore house on nickel night

[Buster Highmen]

That sounds nice. 62 in the AM here. No cooling system in my adobe place. I open the windows wide at night, close them almost all the way during the day. That manages to keep it below 80 degrees inside at worst.

It's been in the 50s in the morning here and I have a similar m.o. where the highest window in the house has a fan that blows out the air all night with the ground floor windows cracked. Then I'm up at 6:00 am and open up the ground floor windows with fans blowing air in. I shut up the house around 8:00 am and today with it 84F at 15:30 it was 67F inside and only got up to 70F by 19:30 when it got to be 70F outside.

[~mikey b]

7000’ in the central Sierra

45° at night
80° max during the day

[liv2ski]

7000’ in the central Sierra

45° at night
80° max during the day

I could live with that in a well insulated home. Windows opened at night and closed during the day.

[~mikey b]

my apartment is in a concrete basement so it stays nice

[KQ]

81° @ 10am

[PB]

Pffft - it was 83 this morning at 6 AM with 72% humidity, with thunder.
This is not right.

[TBS]

81° @ 10am

Same here - got to 97 before the thundershowers started 30 min ago. Now it’s 66 and raining in sheets.

[The AD]

98 here right now. Glad I've got air conditioning!

[El Chupacabra]

I could live with that in a well insulated home. Windows opened at night and closed during the day.

That's what we do - no A/C - and it works almost all the time, so long as the overnight temp drops to low 60s. Yesterday, and today in particular (smoke), it's not cutting it. 90* in the daytime, only dropped to 70* last night, so it's about 80* indoors now.

On that note, does anyone here have a portable swamp cooler unit? I was looking at those on Amazon. Don't know if they are effective...

[PB]

Dunno, do you like moist swampy air?
Generally speaking, evaporative/swamp coolers are best thought of as last resort, or at best a pre-cooler where you're not exposed to the listeria that comes off them.

[El Chupacabra]

Dunno, do you like moist swampy air?
Generally speaking, evaporative/swamp coolers are best thought of as last resort, or at best a pre-cooler where you're not exposed to the listeria that comes off them.

I live in high desert, northern Nevada, very low humidity. The big roof or window mount swamp coolers work well here.

[KQ]

Same here - got to 97 before the thundershowers started 30 min ago. Now it’s 66 and raining in sheets.

It's become quite humid here with high clouds, gusty winds (blowing dust, ugh) and 97. Would be nice to get some rain but I'm not holding out hope. Be nice not to get T&L too.

[Buster Highmen]

90F here today, house is still @ 75F @ 19:30 while it's 80F outside. Cloudy, looks like rain, can hear thunder.
With the clouds, the temp won't drop much tonight, so our regular heat management scheme will fault.

[~mikey b]

I just read it was 107° in Santa Cruz. That’s fucking nuts.

[The AD]

90F here today, house is still @ 75F @ 19:30 while it's 80F outside. Cloudy, looks like rain, can hear thunder.
With the clouds, the temp won't drop much tonight, so our regular heat management scheme will fault.

You might get some rain. It just started here a few minutes ago. Not sure if it will amount to anything, but it would be nice if it cooled things off a bit.

[KQ]

still 90° here. Ugh.

[Norseman]

We bugged out to the mtns today but upon our return the neighbor said the high was 98F here in the central Puget Sound, hottest since 2011.

Cooling nicely, still shirtless on the patio now w 78F. Low of 61 tonight, thank jeebus for cold saltwater nearby

[El Chupacabra]

Death Valley NP reported an all time worldwide record high of 130* yesterday. Not sure if it is official yet.

[The AD]

Death Valley NP reported an all time worldwide record high of 130* yesterday. Not sure if it is official yet.

Wow.

[powdrhound]

Yesterday near Livermore, CA.
Reports of 8 fires from the storm.

[DJSapp]

still 90° here. Ugh.

It's 90 degrees inside the office today. First time back in here in a month and ugh. This is fucking terrible

[buttahflake]

Beautiful day back east, high today in New Hampshire is 79 degrees. Low dew points also, sunny. Pretty much perfect.

[KQ]

Beautiful day back east, high today in New Hampshire is 79 degrees. Low dew points also, sunny. Pretty much perfect.

That's because you're perfect baby.



Meanwhile... here in the basin the fun never ends:

[westoxified]

Dunno, do you like moist swampy air?
Generally speaking, evaporative/swamp coolers are best thought of as last resort, or at best a pre-cooler where you're not exposed to the listeria that comes off them.

nine out of 10 dentist agree that the above quoted statement is bullshit. give me a swamp cooler over AC any day, any temperature.

[glademaster]

Two words: ductless mini-split.