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Today is supposed to be the first day over 90 this year. Supposed to be 95 today and tomorrow. Humidity is supposed to vary between 25% during the day to 75% at night. Time to start closing the house up each morning so I can cool the house in the evening. With no A/C, the house should get to about 85-90. Luckily, I have gallons of tea, and the ice maker is humming along.
Now cue LVSteve or members from Arizona to chip in with ridiculous numbers. Look, our summers are cooler than yours, but it affects us too. However, it is much better than 40 and raining. Which is fall to spring. How's the weather where you are?
 
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We had our first triple digit day yesterday here in Cochise County. Shot at a match in the morning then worked on my truck and cleaned a gun on the patio in the afternoon. By evening I was all in!

It's 10AM, 96 degrees and 10% humidity right now, last night it got down to 56. We have central a/c but rarely use it, house usually stays low 80's without it. Open up the windows at night, close them in the morning before it gets hot, and we have ceiling fans in every room. It stays tolerable.

Giving mid 100's by the weekend!
 
Rule3 said:
It's pretty much always summer here! It's been brutal already
It's 90 feels like 98 Humidity 0ver 50%
No way we can live without AC, It doesn't coll down much at night

"It an,t the heat its the humidity" Nah, it's both!
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Supposed to get down to the mid 60's tonight and mid 50's tomorrow night. That's a good thing. With 4 fans going to exhaust the hot air I can get the house temp down pretty good by morning.
 
I judge the heat more on the temperature at sunrise. We have not seen lows in the 60’s for a while. When the day starts at 73-75, with humidity close to 100%, that’s Florida summer.
 
We are doing better than last year. So far we have not had a high over 105°F and we had a bunch of storms run through the valley midweek. Not the monsoon weather pattern, but genuine weather from the West.

As for closing up house, that is SOP in Vegas 24/7, if not for the heat then for for the dust. Then there are the bugs...Having the house like that is disturbing to many visitors from the Midwest and even some parts of SoCal. The blinds are also all closed to keep the sun out, a concept that many Brits find bizarre when the sun is shining. One visit my father left the blinds open in his room while we were out exploring one day. He never did it again.
 
Unless the air is rain cooled we wont see overnight temps below 80 until late September / October down here in the drippy end of the state.
At least the humidity drops to below 60 in the afternoon and with a seabreeze it can be semi tolerable.
 
LVSteve said:
We are doing better than last year. So far we have not had a high over 105°F and we had a bunch of storms run through the valley midweek. Not the monsoon weather pattern, but genuine weather from the West.

As for closing up house, that is SOP in Vegas 24/7, if not for the heat then for for the dust. Then there are the bugs...Having the house like that is disturbing to many visitors from the Midwest and even some parts of SoCal. The blinds are also all closed to keep the sun out, a concept that many Brits find bizarre when the sun is shining. One visit my father left the blinds open in his room while we were out exploring one day. He never did it again.
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If it's between 60-85 I usually leave the house open. I love fresh air. But anything above 85, the house just doesn't cool down enough. So, you gotta get it cool to start with and shut it up or by the next evening you're storing chocolate in the fridge and sweating 3.2 beer.
 
lihpster said:
The Pollening sounds like a Stephen King novel. :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO:
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'Round here it is as scary if not more than one of his novels. I looked at the weather app when I went next door to treat the neighbor's dogs and kibitz with her at 3:30 this afternoon. 93 degrees with a feels like of 105. I can't wait for August, not! AC is a must here on the Texas Gulf Coast.
 
Just got out of the pool. We've already had many 90 degree + days in North Texas. I guess it was around 95 today. The hot weather is still a ways off.
 
At the moment it's 84 degrees. No idea what the humidity is. In any case it's too darn hot for me! After we moved here everyone we spoke with was amazed we left "the beach". I told them we got tired of hurricanes and 100% humidity but in reality the only thing we left was the hurricanes. I should explain we now live in what's called "the foothills" of the North Carolina mountains.
 
As soon as it stays above 50 for the morning hound walk, will put the long drawers away.
 
JohnRippert said:
'Round here it is as scary if not more than one of his novels. I looked at the weather app when I went next door to treat the neighbor's dogs and kibitz with her at 3:30 this afternoon. 93 degrees with a feels like of 105. I can't wait for August, not! AC is a must here on the Texas Gulf Coast.
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Ditto here in Mississippi!
 
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