As a note, I purchased a tiny cheap ($100) evaporative cooler for my home office because for some GOSH DARN REASON THE AC VENTS JUST DON’T PUMP ENOUGH AIR INTO THE ROOM. My goodness it’s been a lifesaver.
I’ve also been a fan of wetting a paper towel, putting it in the freezer, and taking it out later to throw on my forehead like a headband to keep the noggin from overheating. Also popscicles have been a godsend.
What are y’all going through and what have y’all been doing to stay alive?
In the humid hellscapes nothing but shade and air conditioning saves us. A month ago midwest got hit with a 90+/90+. Talk about heat and humidity. It felt like we were swimming in a pool of unpleasant, warm broth as you were simmering in it.
I can vibe with this thread hardcore this year. We’ve been in a pretty nasty heat wave here in SW PA & of course the hottest days of the past month or so we’ve had outdoor work to do… Then today really sucked, we were supposed to be getting a nice setup in an air conditioned warehouse to spray some trim & T&G panelling we need to paint. Well we get down there today & the dude from the one company is like "You guys can’t be here today, we’re having our financial agents come to see if we’re gonna continue to rent the space the out. So we ended up hand painting the poplar 1x6 boards in the parking lot of the job with nowhere to hide from the sun or heat! I looked like I jumped in a pool by the end of the day today!
Pain. I’m a “winter person” if you want, i can deal with extreme low temps, but heat? I feel like i’m slowly being cooked in some gigantic type of oven, even at night. I just spent 2-3 hours filing around on a 3d printed plate for a 3d printed keyboard and i was sweating just from that. Just uuugh.
Some rain today brought the temp down enough for the added humidity to not matter as much. I’ll take relief where I can get it!
The production room I work in has been scheduled to have it’s AC fixed “next week” for about three years now >.> Sweating is good for you, right? The nearby filtered water station keeps me hydrated. (Stay hydrated!)
Adjacent to the paper-towel method, I have this sort of long, sectionalized bean-bag thing to drape over the back of my neck - sometimes I heat it when my spine is being mean, but lately it’s been very helpful taken straight from the freezer.
You Americans on the other side of the great pond stole my summer! Since October last year it has been raining heavily here almost every day.
Meanwhile, my garden and the highway scenery has turned into an [urban] temperate rain forest, coastal Oregon style. I even had to buy a chainsaw and climbing gear in an attempt to hold my spot.
Gonna be over 100 later this week in Colorado, but thankfully with <20% humidity.
I grew up in Florida and spent my whole life on the east coast, and all my family is in Taiwan or China. The humidity immediately makes me feel angry. I feel like I’ve been angry my whole life lol
Can we all just collectively turn down the temperature on Earth thanks
Real keyboard warriors use meteograms in the terminal!
$ finger Luzern~$(tput cols)@graph.no
-= Meteogram for Lucerne, Switzerland =-
'C Rain (mm)
26 14 =--=== 10 mm
25 | =--=-- ^^^ 9 mm
24^^^^^^ | =-- ^^^^^^ 8 mm
23 ^^^ | | ^^^ 7 mm
22 === | | | ^^^ 6 mm
21 | | | | === 5 mm
20 === | | | | =-- 4 mm
19 ==|=== | | | --- 3 mm
18 | =====|==|==|=======-- 2 mm
17 | | | | | | | | | | | | 1 mm
_18_19_20_21 22 23 11/07 02 03 04 05_06_07_08_09_10_11_12_13_14_15_16_17_18_19_20 Hour
S SE E NE W N W W SW SW S SE SE SE O N N NW N NE E E E SE S SW S Wind dir.
1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 Wind(m/s)
Legend left axis: - Sunny ^ Scattered = Clouded =V= Thunder # Fog
Legend right axis: | Rain ! Sleet * Snow
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Our Freon which art in heaven,
hallowed be thy name.
Thy cooling come.
Thy vapor compression be done, on Earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily working fluid,
And forgive us our door openings, as we forgive those who open doors against our dads’ wishes.
We have a straight-back 3 BR with just two bedroom AC units. We do okay paired with fans, but that early morning window time is critical. When it stays 77 or above, I creep closer to another AC.
