Superfry, part deux

[textualdeviance]

OK, to give you an idea...

Current temp for my zip code right now is 96F, according to weather.com. This breaks the all-time record for this date by 11 degrees. It breaks the all-time record for July by three degrees. And it is just two degrees cooler than the all-time record, period, which was set in 1955. It is also about 20 degrees warmer than our average highs for the entire summer.

Oh, and the humidity? Is about 25%. This is not the dry, baking heat of the Southwest, in which one can sweat to cool off. This is more like being in Florida. Only without the pools and AC everywhere.

I'm not leaving the house today. Especially not since my car has been sitting in the driveway (since there's apartment stuff blocking my parking space in the garage.) Even with the AC, it's still warmish in here just from the sun coming through the windows.

Ugh.

Comments

[automkf.livejournal.com]

Sounds like what we get here on a regular basis in the summer. Temperatures from 88F up to 104F are common, expecially in July and early August. This year we kinda got a break, instead of sweltering heat everyday we've been hit with periods of hot and then tornados and thunder storms with insane amounts of rain. I definatly feel your sweltering pain.

[textualdeviance.livejournal.com]

I grew up in a mountain desert--4500 foot elevation meant lots of snow and deep freezes in the winter; lack of water and vegetation meant lots of high temps and dry thunderstorms (with attendant wildfires) in the summer.

But this is definitely different than the climate I grew up in. The heat here isn't just plain hot, but oppressive and thick and inescapable. Shade does little to help because it's not just the sun doing it but the entire ambient temp--steam rising from the ground, etc.

Bleh.

Fortunately, this stuff is rare. Most people from out of the area get annoyed with the constant drizzle and overcast skies most of the year, but IMHO, the ~8 weeks of cool and clear gorgeousness from late August to early October more than makes up for it.

[hunnyfreak.livejournal.com]

Ack! it's hot here as well! It's only 88-90F, but that's damn hot for here!

[thefirstalicat.livejournal.com]

Even with the AC, it's still warmish in here just from the sun coming through the windows.

Two suggestions, from my Montreal experience:

First, close the curtains or shades or venetian blinds, if not entirely then at least partially - this will help to block the sun's warming effect on your rooms.

Second, and especially if you have one room you need to keep cooler than others (b/c of computers, etc.), invest in a dehumidifier - they're nowhere near as expensive as A/C, but serve to pull the moisture out of the air in the rooms they're kept in, and actually that helps them to function much like an A/C. Plus, the water that gets pulled out of the air is filtered and becomes, honest-to-god, pure - and usable. Well worth it!

Other than that, seeing that we're having the same weather here as you are there at the moment - our high today was 30C (86F) with a humidex around 40C (104F) - I'll just say hang in there, kid, it'll break someday!

[vagal-nerve.livejournal.com]

It's effing hot as hades here, too. Hey, I'm coming thataway next weekend. Want to meet for a beverage?

[textualdeviance.livejournal.com]

I don't know my schedule yet, but tentatively, sure, that'd be awesome.

[iolanthe-rosa.livejournal.com]

And we're having rain here in Santa Rosa! The first time it's rained in July here in 15 years. Crazy.