Solar powered fans
This convention that summer “begins” at the solstice is so weird and disconnected from the commonly understood definition of summer. Flowers bloomed months ago, it’s baking hot, days are about to start getting shorter. It’s already summer.
Well okay but the name “Midsummer” does kind of make my point.
The heat follows the sun, so the hottest months are the two after the solstice
Sure, but the third hottest is June, not September, so if the seasons last (12/4=) 3 months then logically summer began 3 weeks ago.
I don’t think it is a convention anywhere but very very far north. For the majority of people living in the Northern hemisphere by far, as in almost everyone, it has been some for some time now.
It’s finally hot enough that I broke out a sun dress.
Go outside and exercise as much as possible, while consuming sufficient water and electrolytes. Your body and mind adapt to the conditions you put them in.
Most people avoid the discomfort of adapting to changing temperatures as the seasons change. But if you just go for a walk outside on your lunch break and ride a bicycle around after work or something, you’ll find you are much more tolerant of the ambient temperature.
100% agreed. I used to hate the heat. Now I run in 30°C and, while running in that heat is miserable, I find it way more tolerable when I’m just out and about.
Cries in 95°F+ (35°C)
GO OUT AND RUN! 🥲
Keep your living space cooler by blocking out sunlight from coming through the windows, preferably using shading on the outside.
Make liberal use of fans, they lower perceived temperature by several °C.
Wear loose-fitting linen clothing.
Use hats that provide shade, like a cap or something with a larger brim.
Go for a swim.
Take a warm shower before bed (counterintuitive but helps in my experience).
Try to create a breeze through your home by opening windows on opposite sides of the home, when the temperature is higher inside than outside.
Use sunscreen.
Soon?
Just what I was thinking, it’s 28⁰C in Edinburgh today! 🥵
I see home assistant 👍
Go to the Southern hemisphere.
Keep the windows and curtains/blinds closed during the day, open the windows at night.
We had the windows open the other night, and next door’s cat decided to sneak in and visit us! 😁
Definitely better than my experience last night, it was a rather larger spider.
Eeeeeeekkkk 😮😮😮
She has been evicted.
Move further north.
You mean like to the living room?
Take the plastic housing off of an upright column fan and turn it into an air blade.
I’m not joking, I have done this. It provides an amazing laminar (non turbulent) column of air that is so refreshing.
Living int he southern hemisphere
Sunglasses, cigarette and a leather jacket.
Resting your feet in a bucket of cool water.
Works amazingly well. Change the water every so often.
Use the water for plants.
Loose fitting clothes, big hat, bottle of water, shade.
Close all your windows, and the blinds, watch Christmas movies with ice cream and cookies.
Always helps for me, lets me convince myself it’s winter and cozy
I don’t have air conditioning, other than window units that I try not to use to cool the place, but I do use them for dehumidification a lot when it’s hot out, and that helps an absolute ton.
