Hah! You're right about all of it. Blue Jays are really letting me down. They had such potential three seasons ago. Argos are doing pretty well right now, haven't written them off just yet. :D

Too bad at least for me the main issue is getting cool temperature at night while sleeping. I don't care as much if it is 30+ C in daytime.

Here in southern Finland weather is cooling down, today it was a nice +25C or so, and what is more important, it seems nights are becoming cooler too (under 20 C). As I've mentioned before, the main issue here seems to be that the apartments are designed to keep the warmth inside, not so much to stay cool in warmer weather.

Like for instance yesterday night, I measeured that outside it went down to +19 C or so... but for some damn reason the indoors temperature just stayed at around +30 C or so. I need cooler to a good night sleep! I opened the small airing windows to get a draft, but managed to get the temp down to only +28 C. What the heck?!?

And no, heating is not on, other than what warmth dissipates from the TV, my laptop, refrigerator and body heat.

Yeah, I need to buy a good air conditioner too, installed. I just first need to get a permission from the housing community (ie. the owners of all the other apartments), mainly if someone is afraid they will be too noisy. In Finland they don't even sell these kind of cheaper "window A/C units" as I think they have in the America:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/8000-BTU-Window-AC-Unit-w-3500-BTU-Heater-115V-Home-Air-Conditioner-w-Remote/253797807070?hash=item3b178733de%3Ag%3Aug4AAOSw51JbZnef&_sacat=0&_nkw=windows+air+conditioner&_from=R40&rt=nc&_trksid=m570.l1313&LH_TitleDesc=0

Here you can buy only either portable A/C machines, or split units. Maybe it is because here there are generally quite strict rules what you can install outside your home (how it affects how the apartment house looks outside (the outside units can only be installed on balconies due to that in apartment houses), the noise it will make to neighbors etc.

I already have a cheapo portable air conditioning unit, but it is VERY NOISY (like a vacuum cleaner, lower noise though), and not too efficient, ie. good if I can get the temperature down by one or two degrees... but at least it takes some humidity out of the air too. It is better than nothing, or a mere fan.

Then again, here you never know what you will get. Last summer, for instance, was quite cold. We were happy if we got over -20 C day temperatures, and e.g. in Helsinki the temperature never went to +25 or over, during the whole summer (compared to this summer where it felt we got +30-32 C for several weeks, on and on and on...). So who knows, maybe next summer will be another cool summer. I liked this summer better.

At home, I use a fan since it is more energy efficient. When there are multiple people in one area, I just turn on the rotate feature.

I've kept the swiss temperature between 33°C and 35°C, but people have been complaining a lot about it. So, I'm seriously considering lowering it to 25°C or so later this week.

August winds are here,step outside and get cut in half and it's the last month of Winter.

This isn't sweat. It's the humidity in the air condensing on my coolness.



Down in Dallas for about 8-10 days. Seems like typical Dallas August from what I've heard. Was actually hotter and more humid back home yesterday, about 850 miles north.

Fans seem to be a good spot-cooling strategy. Was really nasty in the shop I was working at last week: the work area is tucked into a corner away from any outside openings, so the warm and damp air has nowhere to go. Everywhere I went I either turned a big fan toward the spot I was working or lugged my little portable with me. Makes a huge difference, even with high humidity.

Asked the wife yesterday how the new solar setup is doing - been up and running for a couple weeks now. According to the meter we're about at parity - just 2 kWh difference between us and the grid. Was expecting to be banking kilowatts but it has been really hot and humid. Air conditioning (and dehumidifier in the shop) is running more, and haze in the air is hurting the efficiency of the array.

Just got another, "Climate change is a hoax" from one of my guests. :P

Whenever that happens there is an odd pause and then the immense terror upon the realization that they aren't joking.

We got some rain for the farmers,not enough to end the drought but enough to bring out the streakers.Can't post links but..

Global warming is a myth.Yeahhhhhhhh right,second month into spring and expected temperature 40 degrees in two days time and still two months off Summer.YIKES!

You are aware that your boy trump still insists it's a hoax right?

Might want to reconsider that forum title.

Supposed to be around 16 degrees Celsius today for Halloween, with rain showers on and off all day. In fahrenheit, it is going to get up to the lower 60's.

I am in northeastern Ohio.

Everyone is allowed one mistake,even ''The Man''.
Sounds,like my kind of weather:)

Autumn is a great season as is Spring,well...um..not when it hits 40.

Yeah reading through this thread is scary. It's basically a Prologue for The End Times.