It's winter here but it barely feels like it. This area was in a drought, in winter it started raining sometimes, enough to make the grass green. But most days it's sunny with a clear blue sky. I heard someone refer to it as a green drought.

Was 30 here and had trouble sleeping but it's getting cooler starting tomorrow.

>>2952
Do you have an electric fan? I had trouble sleeping in summer until I got one.

Summer was mild, now it's death. DEATH! DEATHLY HEAT! It's making up for lost time!

>>2954
>electric fan
Even with an electric fan the summer is killing me, I wake up all sticky despite having it blow air on me throughout the night...
You really need an AC for 34C heat with 65+ humidity.

>>2956
Ahh, I hadn't thought of that. I'm Australian so we get days that go above 40c sometimes but there is very little humidity most of the time in summer.

My AC broke, I'm dying......

95F here for the last several weeks and 80-99% humidity. Love this weather. Wish it would never end because we get pop up storms.

I spent all afternoon today mowing grass in the rain and it was lovely. If only we could get a tornado or two I'd be happy. Provided it doesn't suck up my house.

My blood hasn't been right since I spent those few summers working outside in 100-120+F weather in high humidity. We worked over asphalt all day. Got so hot your boots would melt. Since then heat doesn't bother me but anything below about 70F feels like I'm freezing. I try to enjoy the summer weather while it lasts because come fall-winter I'm dying from pain combined with freezing to death.

I wear hoodies indoors all summer now and keep my house around 78F.

The first half of July was hot and humid here. The second half has just been humid.
August is looking like nothing but rain. I'd book a vacation elsewhere, but the forecast for most of Europe is what July was like here, and the rest of the world is outside my reach because I don't know how to plan.

>>2956
I hear a dehumidifier can make a big difference with much lower energy use than a full-blown AC. I've never tried, but a few people I know swear by it.

>>2958
Stay safe. Get as naked as you can be, strap ice packs to your chest and keep a running fan blowing in your face at all times. Drink lots of water. Trust me, I've done this and survived.

>>2960
My split-duct system doubles as a dehumidifier. It has a mode for that you can leave it in when you go away from your house for a few days-week for vacation. Pulls the water out of the air without running the AC so lower than keeping AC setting on.

I once left it in that mode by mistake for a few days and it was awful. Sucked the moisture right out of my skin. Made it hard to breath. Maybe a smaller unit would be better but I'll never make that mistake again.

>>2958
Do you have a bucket and some way to freeze water? We built a pretty good AC out of those a few years back when my friends AC died and and it was going to cost thousands to replace. Since he insisted on replacing the entire unit instead of allowing us to niggerrig the old one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGfDXI2P-N8

We made one of these with an old fan. I drilled more holes in it though. If you don't have a drill you could do it by hand with hand tools. Will just take awhile to get the holes big enough. You don't need PVC pipe either you can use anything that will fit in the hole like a rolled up magazine.

>>2960
>dehumidifier
Yeah, I hear the good ones make a difference but the good ones are expensive, and the cheap ones are more for mold prevention in tiny dark places.

>>2963
Any idea how effective that is?

>>2965
Way more effective than those little scam ACs they sell that you put water in he was attempting to survive with. The one I built cooled a bedroom just fine. Make sure you have 2 or 3 gallon jugs of water to rotate. That way you never have to wait for water to freeze.

It isn't as good as a proper wall unit, central air or a split-duct of course. But they work just fine as long as you use a big enough bucket and have a powerful enough fan to circulate the air. We made three and put them in each bedroom. They used them most of the summer. Before the house would be 80+F afterwards the bedrooms stayed below 72F. Doesn't sound like a huge difference but it was. Big difference on the really hot days when it'd get above 90F in the house.

>>2966
A 4℃ change is still better than no change but I'd have to get gallon jugs, a bucket, and a powerful fan...

>>2967
You need the styrofoam liner too. Can't forget that. You want the ice insulated from the outside hot air. The first jug will melt quickly until you bring the temp. in the room down. The second one not as fast. The third will last a good while as long as you keep the door closed and switch them out quickly. Lasts longer over night of course.

If you don't already have material laying around I could see how it'd be a pain. I save gallon milk and tea jugs so I always have plenty unless I've used them for target practice. Same goes for the 5 and 10 gallon buckets.

You could also do the old block of ice+fan thing. It works pretty well. Only problem is it gets costly and I don't think many places sell blocks anymore. I suppose bags of ice would work too but they'd probably melt faster.

Do you have a body of water like a pond or creek near-by? If so, you could look into building a swamp cooler. They work really well and aren't that hard to build.

>>2968
>block of ice+fan
Placing a block of ice in front of a fan? I do have ice packs, and empty containers I could use as ice packs...
>body of water
None near by, sadly.

>>2969
Yeah the block of ice+fan thing is what all the old timers used to do before AC was common around here. Blocks of ice are really expensive now. I guess you could do it with a jug of frozen water too but it'd be less surface area.

What they'd do is put the block of ice on a chair then put the fan behind it. Pointing it towards where ever you're sitting or sleeping of course. Fan blows over the ice and the cool air blows over you.

The blocks actually lasted a good while if they were inside. Just gotta place them and the chair they're on over some place you don't mind getting wet or rigging up a bucket or something to catch water as it melts.

Whatever you do don't fall for those scam $20 little swamp coolers that you fill with water. A big swamp cooler works okay provided you're okay with it being more humid where you use them. But those little units are awful and they break really quickly. They don't put out much cool air either.

If you're okay with going outside and have a creek or river near-by you could always do the old school thing of hanging out in the shade on the creek bank. Temp. drops by as much as 10F if you go down into those areas. Can go swimming in the water to cool off too. Tie a rope around your canned drinks and toss them into the creek and it'll chill them. Get a watermelon and toss it in with your drinks. Pull it back out in a bit and enjoy the cool melon.

Learned a lot of tricks for keeping cool like that mid-summer growing up since they made us work in the hot fields with no shade so much.

>>2970
>Temp. drops by as much as 10F if you go down into those areas.
Creeks were pretty much essential for camping out in the summer. We had a spot that setup at a bend so the cooler water vapor constantly flowed through the campsite.

summer sagers