Phew pt.2
It's so muggy I can't sleep.
I really have no idea how I can cool myself down. I'm already naked, I have a fan whirring away quietly to stir the air, all my windows are open and my patio doors are as wide open as they can possibly be. According to the iPhone it's still 21ºC out there and it's nearly half past two in the morning.
I'm absolutely baking.
I'll feel sorry for any potential burglars who might want to enter my unsecured abode, last thing anyone wants to see is a portly Welshman in the nude sweating away. If it was slightly more private I'd go sleep in the garden but there are about ten other flats overlooking my place and I doubt very much any of them would like to hear me snoring away under the overcast sky.
The thing is, I love the sunshine and the heat during the day, but come sleeping time I can't bear to be hot. I love a cold bed and cold pillows. It's a must for me to be able to snuggle under the covers and make a nest for myself, otherwise I'm in this position, tossing and turning all night, feeling tired but unable to sleep.
Oh well, I'm sure I'm not the only one...
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but last week was baking here too, temps in the 26c + range daytime and then only getting down to low 20's at night
or wet hair.
So far it's not too bad in my little flat, but i have been and bought a fan lol. It's the day I'm having problems with, I am getting so hot it's making me sleepy and I keep nodding off! Thankfully it hasn't happened while I've been in the car O_O
I finally broke down and replaced my broken AC about three weeks ago, as I couldn't stand the heat any longer. I'd rather live without TV and most other appliances than live without air. Summer is brutal in this part of the US and it goes on for months.
Then in the past week or so it hit 108 and has broken 100 every day -- I no longer care about the bill to come; I'm cranking that air up every day and half the night!
You'd never make it down here if 70 degrees makes you sweat like a dockworker. I've seen it nearly 90 degrees at midnight here, though it usually doesn't go quite that high that late at night (the daytime is another story).
Still at 70, you should be able to make do nicely with a box fan or two,and they're cheap.
You might be curious to know that I keep my AC setting on 70 degrees which makes it very comfortable in here. And it's usually muggy in humid here. My town is in the foothills of the Appalachian mountains, so it's not quite as muggy as the coast near Charleston, for example, where there are a lot of swamps.
We've only hit 100 once here this summer so far; it's been mainly in the 90s. But it's coming as we've not hit peak summer yet, which is from mid-July to late August.
Oh, it was in the mid 60s here last night.
I like your method for surprising burglars. ;)
I love the heat - midsummer is my favorite time of year. If you don't like it you should visit here, I'm still wearing my fleece pjs because it's so cold still. We had all of 3 sunny days in June. The rest were rainy and very cold. Although I sympathize, heat waves can be brutal.
I'm getting ready to go to work now and I'm going to tell my co-workers about you whinging about 70 degrees. I'm sure they'll all laugh their asses off, as that would be a "nice cool summer night" here.
Because I live in the south, they don't handle snow all that well here, either because we don't get that much of it and when we do, it's never any higher than covering our shoe tops. The people here all rush to the grocery story to buy milk and bread when there's a snow forecast. It's always milk and bread and the stores run out of it. I never understood this -- what are they going to do with it, make a milk sandwich?
I despise the humidity, and the hotter it is, I cannot stand it. Just last week it was 96 degrees, ugh...way too damn hot for this time of the year. I also love a cold bedroom to sleep in, I have to burrow under the sheets to sleep, I think that's been part of my problem here lately. I've been hot at night and toss and turn and can't seem to get comfortable.
Heh I had to laugh at myself as normally I would (as you put it Gwyn) be pissing and moaning about 70-75 degrees, but after the recent 80+ that we've had (AND the distinct lack of AC at work unless you count the windows under that term and having to wear a full length labcoat O_o ) I walked back into my flat 1 night to find the temperature at 75 degrees and I was thinking how cool it felt LOL
I think i may have acclimatised a bit, but I prefer it to be about 65 degrees, nice and coolish, pleasant to do things :)