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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsToo hot to sleep.....anyone else?
75 degrees right now, and just humid enough to make me feel slightly nauseated.
The only thing that works is being in front of a box fan AND kicking the house A/C down to 73.
My poor friends back in Oregon and Seattle....hell of a heat wave for them, and A/c is rare up there.
Suich
(10,642 posts)And going to get a lot hotter tomorrow!
trof
(54,255 posts)Bumped it up to 76.
We have heat pump that really takes the humidity down.
LWolf
(46,179 posts)I don't have AC, but if I did, 65 would be perfect, summer and winter.
noamnety
(20,234 posts)It doesn't trap heat against your body like a mattress - which is basically like trying to sleep on a fur coat.
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)noamnety
(20,234 posts)and we replaced the mattress once since then (no problems with the old one, but we knew it was hitting the end of its life span.)
I am surprised they've gone out of fashion. To me they are the answer to everything - dust allergies in particular. I love that you can just wipe it down, and you don't have years of dust/dust mites/random crud accumulating in it - it made a huge difference in my allergy misery, and I don't ever want to go back to a regular mattress because of that!
LWolf
(46,179 posts)It's mostly dry here, so that helps a little.
I have a fan. I have an oversized, loose, comfy cotton shirt that dries easily. I turn on the cold water, soak the shirt, put it on, and lay on the bed in front of the fan. Evaporative cooling without the duct work, lol.
The worst is during the day; I'm not getting anything done.
ailsagirl
(22,854 posts)Even though they don't bring down the temperature, they at least keep the air moving
ailsagirl
(22,854 posts)it has finally cooled down-- last week the temps shot up in the 90s-- along with fairly high humidity
I honestly can't understand why so many people love summer-- spring and fall are nice seasons because they're mild compared to summer or winter
Can't stand the heat!!
calimary
(80,874 posts)Right now I feel almost tempted to sleep outside on the deck.
ailsagirl
(22,854 posts)...but there are spiders and other unwelcome creatures lurking, so I don't.
Today is much nicer-- mild and breezy
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)only 93 right now.
mackerel
(4,412 posts)88 degrees, we've only got the fans running.
sakabatou
(42,107 posts)Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)everyone think the NSA is reading? LOL.
mackerel
(4,412 posts)KamaAina
(78,249 posts)Again?
mackerel
(4,412 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Gotta love a glass of good cabernet with grilled steak. I was more into wine in the early '70s, but I remember zin being pushed then as a good wine to go with hamburger.
And SoCal has had some humidity lately from monsoonal moisture. A few days ago local news said some places in the greater L.A. area would have 70% humidity. In the high dez it felt muggy in the morning when it hit 31%, but it soon dropped to the teens and felt much better, even with triple digit temps. Then the next day it hit 77% here.
mackerel
(4,412 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)I've always liked Charles Krug, and I've also had good luck with Beringer and BV. And Vons has had discounts going on those for a while, plus mfr. coupons.
I remember when the California cabernet grapes first came in, when there was a surplus, so for a while they were blending them into all the table reds and there were a lot of very cheap reds that were great! It was fun while it lasted, until the market for CA cabs developed.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)Apparently Fairplay is the new Napa. Or something.
mackerel
(4,412 posts)dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)and my puter knows, esp. Google ( tho it is off by 40 miles)
Semi-tropical Alabama is where I am..meaning not as far as mid-Fla, where the tropics start.
Heat and humidity =high heat index.
To my DU friends in the SW, I can appreciate the "dry heart" but after 100 degrees, all bets are off for comfort.
trinidad
(14 posts)I was really somewhat surprised at the way American houses are built, especially in the very hot regions of the country. No open floor plans to ensure cross breezes. Cool basements are often too expensive to build in cheaper houses. I got used to going without air conditioning. Our house is not open floor, but we can generate some cross breezes. It's probably not all that hot, except maybe in June.
Skittles
(153,058 posts)you really are in Trinidad?
trinidad
(14 posts)Moving back and forth.
Skittles
(153,058 posts)my dad was in the military and my mum was a Brit who always wanted to go back home so I moved back and forth between America and England
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Numerous examples can be found in older parts of Southern cities and in outlying rural areas.
The style was that you go from the front door thru the house directly to the back door, leaving both open
( with screens) to catch a breeze.
Problem is....hot sticky air settles in with no breeze for days unless you are on the water.
Ceiling fans are the great blessing down here. Amy thing to keep the air moving.
and enclosed porches, if big enough, are a treat after a thunder storm goes thru and the temps drop by 20 degrees.
this is the technique. Catching the breezes instead of closing them off. Using nature. Really that is the entire philosophy in life, I think. Everything needs to keep moving. If you retire and just sit around, then you fade and die. If the contents of your digestion are not always moving, then food settles. That gives you cancer, the diverticular, etc. The difference between a flowing river and a stagnant pond.
Joe Shlabotnik
(5,604 posts)calimary
(80,874 posts)olddots
(10,237 posts)COME ON PEOPLE !!!!!!! too hot to sleep
seveneyes
(4,631 posts)fizzgig
(24,146 posts)or at least turn off the fan. it's been rainy all day and it'll be mid-50s and damp tonight. we have satin sheets on the bed right now and that just makes it a bit miserable. but it's a good excuse to cuddle with the husbear and the kitties
47of74
(18,470 posts)Been having a stretch of good sleeping weather lately.
I remember growing up we didn't have A/C in the house and it was just so damn hot in the house all the time.
Snobblevitch
(1,958 posts)It got up to 90° on Saturday. The dewpoint was 70°...and we have no electricity.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Snobblevitch
(1,958 posts)the low about 60°. They were wrong. Even worse than the weather was the drive home Subday through heavy traffic. I don't care about the weather, never again on a holiday weekend.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)If you take time off work....take Monday and Tuesday, and even teh first 3 days of the week.
Leave Sunday, you will go against traffic
and when you come back midweek, you will only have to work 1-2 days and then have the weekend.
Much much less stressful.
I listened, and if taking a 3 day holiday was required, I stayed home, puttered, took naps.
When I DID take a few days off, I tried to arrange it for first of the week, and return mid week.
One of the marvelous things about retirement is we now live in a small rural town where a traffic jam means 3 cars ahead of you.
And we resist like hell having to go to Mobile, which has wall to wall traffic now.
Snobblevitch
(1,958 posts)everything in was within 5 minutes. Of course, back then, distance was referred to by miles instead of minutes. We could go years without refilling the windshield wiper tank on the car. Not so in the Twin Cities.
Our plan was to come home Monday, but my nephew started to suffer from heatstroke while cutting down some trees for firewood. After he vomited, our plans changed so we could get him back home to AC.
Contrary1
(12,629 posts)is that it doesn't seem so hot in the summer anymore. I set the AC on 75/76 and am fine. The downside is that I seem to spend most of the Midwest winters huddled on the couch under a blanket.
I long for days past when my coldest winter attire was a heavy sweater.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)When I'm feeling wimpy, I might reduce it to 82-83, lol.
Contrary1
(12,629 posts)but the husband would be miserable. So I usually wear light weight long sleeve in the summer, and sleep under a couple of sheets.
I think back to the summers when I was a kid...we had one window unit, and couldn't afford to run it all the time. The schools I attended didn't have ac, so I got a bit used to it back then.
There were a few years in between then and now that the heat bothered me, mainly going in and out of cool/hot. Now, I prefer the warmth.
nirvana555
(448 posts)I live in Redondo Beach and I remember when I first moved to CA in '88, many of the houses, apts., etc. didn't need A/C. In Redondo, even in the Summer at night you'd need a little jacket. No more. One of the many reasons I left Texas was due to the weather.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Could not take the constant clouds as i grew older, needed sun, did not know about S.A.D. and anti-depressants for lack of sun, years ago.
So I was happy to find myself in the South, where there is plenty of sun.
And guess what?
Western Wash. is having pre-drought conditions, week after week of glaring sun, little rain.
Plus they legalized pot, and my kids up there are sending me "neener neener" emails!!!
And we have had, for the past now 3 years, cool rainy springs and summers. (Cool meaning cooler than normal, it still is low 90's in summer here)