Whew! Hot!

[Dr Mordrid]

Take this as the word of experience: if you have a vaulted ceiling you need fans uo there to keep the air circulating. The HVAC contractor should also have taken total volume into account when he calculated the heat inventory - some just use square footage, which is OK for standard ceilings but for a vaulted ceiling gives the wrong number.

[Brian Ellis]

http://weather.cypenv.eu/current/WDL/default.html live

Where I live, 300 m up and cooler than the plain, the temp maxed at 39.4°C (103°F) with a heat index of 47.8° (118°F). Humidity higher than normal. This midday, I went to the hospital in Nicosia in an urban heat island at low altitude. It was running minimal aircon and how blessed that was! It would not surprise me if the outside temp was 4-5° higher than where we are.

The electricity guys are promising 2 blackouts today of 2½ and ¾ hours resp. with appeals to minimise, The problem is that modern houses are not designed to run without aircon. We run our living room one for ¼ h early evening and a ceiling fan to keep comfortable while watching TV.

[Jessterw]

Take this as the word of experience: if you have a vaulted ceiling you need fans uo there to keep the air circulating. The HVAC contractor should also have taken total volume into account when he calculated the heat inventory - some just use square footage, which is OK for standard ceilings but for a vaulted ceiling gives the wrong number.

Oh I know, that's why we recently bought ceilings fans for it. We've only been in the house a couple years, so it's just been the latest in a progression of things we've been doing to fix things in the house (that at least to us need 'fixing'). Next is the shoddily installed wood floors that are starting to reveal just how hastily they were laid down.

[cjolley]

@Brian, glad to hear you are getting at least some relief.

I ride a scooter to work and came home yesterday in 109F (43C) heat according to the weather channel.

Now they are warning of "Extreme Heat" for next week.
What the heck do they call what we've been having?

[Evildead666]

As long as your scooter is moving you can at least get some air blowing over sweat to cool you down.
Imagine all the poor buggers in cars with no AirCon.

One tip (Which i've probably mentioned before) : Freeze a bottle of water, but remember to leave 10-20% empty before you freeze it or the bottle will crack.
That way, even if it takes 2 hours to get to work, with 1 litre+ of ice, it will always be super cool water as it melts.

[cjolley]

Well it's only a 10-15 minute trip (4 miles) or I'd just drive the car in this heat.

Also, the AC in the office building I work in is totally out of control. It's frequently in the low 60s F (~18C) in my office if it gets really hot outside. So it takes me a while to warm up on my way home even riding through the hot air.

I could freeze a water bottle in the break room refrigerator though. Hmm...

[cjolley]

As long as your scooter is moving you can at least get some air blowing over sweat to cool you down.

Actually it's like having a hair dryer blowing on you.

[Evildead666]

Not pleasant, but better than nothing

[cjolley]

Oh great. It's going to get worse.

[Brian Ellis]

At least you have aircon!

[Dr Mordrid]

Lake Huron top, Lake St. Clair center, Lake Erie bottom

[cjolley]

At least you have aircon!

Amen to that. How is the power "issue" going there. Any solutions on the horizon?

[Jammrock]

I was in Seattle, WA last week for a conference. The high was 75 F (24 C) while I was there.

Alas, I am back in Charlotte now where the temps are around 100 F.

[Brian Ellis]

Amen to that. How is the power "issue" going there. Any solutions on the horizon?

Rolling 2½ h blackouts every weekday + ¾ h if necessary. The island had a peak consumption of just under 1200 MW. Peak supply is now 700 MW with emergency generators supplied from Israel and Greece and likely to remain so for at least 6 months before they can get any mainstream generators up and working. By mid-September, midday temps should be down to mid-to-low-30s and essential aircon will be less demanding, so blackouts may not be required so frequently and/or long.

This past weekend, no blackout nor after 20:00 on weeknights

[Brian Ellis]

I was in Seattle, WA last week for a conference. The high was 75 F (24 C) while I was there.

That was because it was raining! It rains once/year there, but each shower lasts 365 days!