the trials of SUMMER
Jan. 18th, 2014 06:39 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
deird1Haven't posted about the weather, because otherwise, every day this week, I would have felt compelled to log on and write HOTHOTHOTHOTHOT all over the internet.
But now that it's over, let me tell you about the weather.
- My air conditioner was on, all day every day, all week. It was set at 23 degrees (73F).
- By keeping my air conditioner constantly set at 23 degrees, it managed to ensure that, by the end of the day, the room it was air conditioning wouldn't get higher than 30 degrees (86F).
- This seven-degrees-higher-than-I-want temperature was close enough that everyone who doesn't have an air conditioner has been walking in my front door and exclaiming at how cool it is.
- Unlike the rest of the house, which is more than 2 metres away from the air conditioner. By the end of each day, it would be just as hot inside my bedroom as it was outside the house.
- That being: 44 degrees (111F).
No, wait, that's not big enough.
44 DEGREES (111F)
Better.
- It has been boiling out there. The water bottle I keep in the car? This week, it's been hotter than I drink my tea. I kid you not.
- I have been sleeping next to the air conditioner, and I have still been too hot to sleep.
This was the state of affairs until late last night (oh blessed late-last-night, how we love thee). At which point a storm finally broke, and the brief, thunderous drops of rain cooled the place down no end.
It's now cool enough to sleep on top of my bed, naked and with no sheets (ie - a standard summer).
Here endeth the lesson.
But now that it's over, let me tell you about the weather.
- My air conditioner was on, all day every day, all week. It was set at 23 degrees (73F).
- By keeping my air conditioner constantly set at 23 degrees, it managed to ensure that, by the end of the day, the room it was air conditioning wouldn't get higher than 30 degrees (86F).
- This seven-degrees-higher-than-I-want temperature was close enough that everyone who doesn't have an air conditioner has been walking in my front door and exclaiming at how cool it is.
- Unlike the rest of the house, which is more than 2 metres away from the air conditioner. By the end of each day, it would be just as hot inside my bedroom as it was outside the house.
- That being: 44 degrees (111F).
No, wait, that's not big enough.
Better.
- It has been boiling out there. The water bottle I keep in the car? This week, it's been hotter than I drink my tea. I kid you not.
- I have been sleeping next to the air conditioner, and I have still been too hot to sleep.
This was the state of affairs until late last night (oh blessed late-last-night, how we love thee). At which point a storm finally broke, and the brief, thunderous drops of rain cooled the place down no end.
It's now cool enough to sleep on top of my bed, naked and with no sheets (ie - a standard summer).
Here endeth the lesson.