Chilly to Hot In Your Neck Of The Woods Already?

Yeah just leaving them on streets will turn a lot of people off. San Francisco’s got a lot of space it seems though. I watched the videos because it seems to show the layout of the city quite well. Will have to visit one day. :slight_smile:

Two weeks ago it hit 93. Right now (2;20pm) it’s 42.
Wish it would make up it’s mind.
I’m got a new AC system installed last week. Temps in the 60s. Glad it was cooler for the installer guys.
During the summer here, Attic temps in the 140 plus range are typical.
The installers from the better crews wear heat monitors.
Even then some times one of them will pass out in the attic.
All the Best,
Jeff

Talking about those Revel scooters and such? Yeah, I hate those things, plus the idiots who leave them almost as if to screw people over. Like plant one right in the middle of a legit (but scarce) parking spot, or worse, wedge them between 2 parked cars so now one or the other can’t get out without knocking over the damned thing.

Haven’t had that be a problem on my block thankfully, but I know blocks where someone keeps “renting” one and leaving them as described above, that people who were blocked out/in called the number to ask someone to move the things. They’re one step away from dumping used motor oil (or worse) all over ’em to express their displeasure.

Take something that can be a good idea, implement it badly, and instead of being useful, it’s a blight.

It’s been more or less consistent here. 50s or so, a week into the 70s, then down into the 40s, now we’re in the 50s and should be 50s-60s through the coming week.

Been trying to keep the heat turned off, but can’t quite do it. 2 clock-thermometers right next to each other, one says 69 and the other says 67, no idea which one to believe. :person_facepalming: Either way I gotta keep the long pantaloons and not shorts.

A bud from down south laid it out for me. Keep the windows on the lower floors open on the north/shaded sides only, open all doorways to let heat rise naturally, then have an attic fan suck that hot air out the sunny side of the house, blowing it away.

Attic fans are way cheaper’n ACs if you can get away with it. (Or can tolerate heat.)

Attics here are not “conditioned” spaces. Meaning that there is no insulation between the roof deck and the attic.
And there is no active heating or cooling in the attic.
The insulation is on the floor of the attic. Or on top of the living space ceiling.
Attics here are not used for anything other than to hold the HVAC and usually some storage for stuff you never want to see again.

All the AC stuff is usually in the attic. Both the HVAC unit and all the ducting. Houses are build on a slab so there is no place for under floor ducts.
Man what a stupid arrangement. But that’s how most of the homes built here have been done.
Only the most recent higher dollar homes are starting to use modern energy efficient insulation or construction methods.

Attics are vented around the edges below the hips with roof vents near the apex. So there is some air circulation.
But when it’s 110 outside and there is that huge flat asphalt shingle roof soaking up the photons, man does it cook in there.

Exhaust fans for the attic give rise to other problems. Depending of how the incursions into the ceiling are done. A fan can pull air from the living space.
In some states they are not allowed by code. You can run into problems with gas appliances that may pull air from the attic space - even if that is not to code - but it happens.
Pusher fans (like traditional attic fans) need some way to vent the hot air out. Roof design here doesn’t have enough exit venting. So the pressurized attic air intrudes into the living space through the poorly sealed ceiling deck.

Garage doors that face north here get the afternoon sun. It’s hotter in a closed garage than outside by 6pm here.
I am getting a 2 ton mini-split put in the garage too. And some new insulated garage doors.
My days of mucking about in a 100 degree garage are just not fun anymore.

This part of Texas has always been years behind most of the rest of the country as far as keeping up with modern building techniques.
All the Best,
Jeff

Out here where the lows are in the 90s for months, Texas reverts to a Freon based economy.
In the dry West Texas, swamp coolers work well and are very cost effective. But it has been getting more humid and there are too many days when all they do is add humidity to the air and it’s more miserable.

All the Best,
Jeff

The parking lot temp a few summers ago.
You can’t fry an egg, but you can darn well cook one.
Or kill a steak beyond well-done on the asphalt.

No fans are going to help with this. I’ve seen tires sink into poorly made roads.
All the Best,
Jeff

Sounds rough down there. Last summer we broke a record for most days above 90. I think it was 25. Now I don’t feel so bad.

Yeap and some of them ended up in the ocean because people were getting upset at the blight they were causing. A lot of the drivers are menaces to themselves and others because they don’t think traffic laws or common sense applies to them. I’ve almost been run over a few times on the sidewalk because of the idiots on them.

All this talk of heat and humidity makes me happy that I had to put on a sweatshirt and a jacket for my walk this afternoon :partying_face:

:laughing:

75°F/24°C or so here in Seattle. The city parks are crowded.

A little hotter across the east side of the state and hotter in Portland and down the Willamette Valley.

Fire danger listed as high in a few areas. Like Bushmaster said: Looks like a bad year coming for fires in the Pacific Northwest.

Over here it keeps fluctuating between wonderfully fresh 21-31C almost everyday according to forecast, with some nice crisp mornings that make me doubt that low estimate. Just got out of an early drought spell that was going on since mid-March, so finally we can breathe a little easier without hugging a water bottle all day.

All this jacket/sweatshirt talk of you lot is making me sweat already :smiley: Over here it’s all about t-shirts and shorts unless I’m going to a more formal appointment like a visit to the dental clinic.

It's about perfect here now but.....I can't get the garden in fast enough....and I'm buying another air filterer thing.

31F here. Was camping at 70 degrees like a couple weeks ago.

It's 21 C° now so nice in shade now. Way more people out and about now. Seems most folks are in and/or near parks. Saw a downed tree on the local trails. Strange that only one tree fell but the others are still standing?

Was this at Mundy park?

73 degrees F and you are starting to sweat? That’s what you get when you are acclimated to arctic weather in the frozen north. I used to live in the Midwest so well know the agony of waiting for Spring to really arrive. March was the cruelest month in WI, MI, and IL. We can always tell the new transplants from the north. They are the people using our HOA pool in March. The rest of us wait until it gets in the 90s.

Spring arrives in late February or early March here. We have already had an unusual spell of weather when it reached into the mid-90s but not accompanied by the high humidity of the coastal regions. Fortunately it dropped back into high temperatures in the 70s and low 80s for about the past two weeks. I’m not used to having to un-mothball the evaporative cooler that serves as my primary AC unit in early March. It’s the perfect time of year for cycling and other outdoor activities - not too hot and not too cool.

Hey yeah Mundy park. :slight_smile: How you know? Been there before? :smiley: That park is great. Rare plants and wildlife inside. Plus the cougars and bears prowling around here and there. :smiley: