It’s getting harder for me to deal with summer heat

Same.

And my local energy monopoly has become less and less reliable in recent years...

I got a table fan ~20 inches high that I keep on my night stand facing my head. It helps me sleep when I can't run the ac. Ceiling fans are great but you need a breeze on you. Even just a shitty box fan which you can grab at a drugstore is better than nothing.

It's your hot flashes, hon.

Uh, ceiling fans create a breeze, donchaknow?

I've trained myself to take cold showers. It helps.

I love the heat. OP, I am in MN,, and I was reveling in the near 90s today. But I know I’m in the minority.

For my comeuppance. I hate the cold. I figure I’m due to enjoy the weather since winter lasts six months here.

Wear fewer clothes in the house.

Feels terrible. Stinky.

I live in LA and have not had to turn on the AC since last September. Since I moved out here 30 years ago, I have had to run the AC beginning in April. Today was 68° but I love it! I looked online at my Edison bill from two years ago – $933 for May was 2021. ' I prefer to sleep with the sliders open in my bedroom and a couple fans running. It has been heavenly. The only downside of this May Gray/June Gloom/marine layer is that it is humid. I feel sorry for OP. Heat and humidity together are brutal.

OP here, sitting in underwear and hoping this cheap $100 oscillating Arctic Breeze thing that I picked up tonight doesn’t fall apart, tip over or squirt water all over my floors. It’s such a piece of garbage and I don’t think I’ll keep it. A 3-year-old who is a little slow could design better.

It was 90 here in Michigan today but with low humidity, so I was quite comfortable. Heat doesn’t really bother me — but I work at home so I can keep shedding clothes if need be.

OP, is it possible that you once had heat stroke? That will do it. Once you've had that you can become more heat intolerant. I had a bad episode on a golf course. I now must be careful not to get too overheated. I can become physically ill, throw up, pass out, etc. It can get serious.

Swamp ass feels so disgusting

[quote]OP, is it possible that you once had heat stroke? That will do it. Once you've had that you can become more heat intolerant. I had a bad episode on a golf course. I now must be careful not to get too overheated.

Oh, wow. I wasn't very heat intolerant until a trip to Florida in the summertime when it was 95 degrees and felt like 95 percent humidity. I got a case of heat exhaustion and couldn't control my sweating even in a cool tub. Since then I've been quite heat intolerant.

Mary! Try living in the Deep South.

Try putting a bowl of ice in front of the fan.

You should have your AC serviced annually and before hot weather season.

We are in the midst of climate change everywhere. Please take heat exhaustion and heatstroke seriously, it could save your life.

Symptoms of heat stroke include:

Confusion, altered mental status, slurred speech.

Loss of consciousness (coma)

Hot, dry skin or profuse sweating.

Seizures.

' Very high body temperature.

Fatal if treatment delayed.

Untreated, heatstroke can lead to organ failure, a coma or death.

Can't live without my high velocity fan. Ceiling fans don't seem to do anything but move around hot air. Maybe I got them running the wrong way though.

Keep your shades drawn during the day, eat a lot of sugar free popscicles and shower when you get up, in the afternoon, and before bed. Or at least in the morning and night,

The idea of retiring to Arizona or Florida or any hot spot has no appeal for me. I'd prefer the Pacific Northwest or any northern midwest state. The older I get, the less heat tolerant I've become.

I'm convinced that there's something in hibiscus that works to allow people to tolerate excessive heat in comfort. It's not simply the pleasant sour taste, there's something else at work. So my suggestion is iced hibiscus tea sweetened with lakanto monk fruit/erythritol non caloric sweetener.

Cucumber mint lime aqua fresqua is also wonderful to drink on a hot day, and easy to make

The air conditioner in my car is broken ($500 to repair) and I'm in Georgia. It's hot as hell in the afternoons. When I come home my clothes are soaking wet.

You have to get your air conditioning in order. Or be smart about temperature control in your house or apartment.

I live in Switzerland and summers are too hot now, and apartments are not adapted to window units and central air is rare - only in very modern and expensive new construction.

So you need to play with blinds and shutters and fully airing out spaces when the sun sets, all night, and the shutting things down. It can be fine in a closed apartment until the late afternoon and then it might become uncomfortable. Fans, ice and fans, and also wearing cooling clothes. Just go buy some shirts make for sports - out of wicking fibre. You soak them in cold water and put them on. Instant radical cooling. After 45 minutes, you have to repeat. It will definitely get you through a heat wave. Seems awkward but you can get used it,

Schedule excusions in the late afternoon - to the forest, the pool, the lake with shade, etc. Or shopping. Go to your office or a public facility that is airconditioned. In recent heat waves even just escaping my heating apartment and getting in a car and blasting the air, and take a drive to the forest. It's almost always better in the forest.

Also do you know places that are almost always cool, naturally? A friend of mine has a grotto in his garden. Or a basement.

Be smart and active about staying cool.

Move, OP.

I don't see how I'm going to make it through the summah!

You type fat.

Every winter I am house shopping for homes in the south, looking no further north than North Carolina. Come June I am looking at houses in Maine and Nova Scotia.

Houghton, MIchigan. Nice and cool

OP Fret not — I am 35 and I dislike summer with a passion. Give me crisp autumn days

[quote] OP here, sitting in underwear

I imagined it as I read it and ended up blushing / hot / bothered

MARY!

We keep the sliders open with the A/C off until the temp gets to 85.

At 85 we close the sliders and turn the A/C on which is set at 77.

Southwest Florida is warm, but I'm more worried about deSanctimonius than the heat.

R30 Autumn is the most beautiful season, Dutchie. It has the most comfortable weather and most beautiful color. I've always thought Vancouver Island would be a wonderful place to retire. If the temperature is in the high 70s, it's considered a heat wave! Average temp is 50s to mid-70s.

I live in FL as well, if I kept my AC at 75 it would never shut off in the summer

OP, I think you need to avoid getting hot, in the first place. Can you wake up earlier, when the sun isn't so high in the sky? You might enjoy the cool mornings. Yes, you'd end up tired earlier. Hopefully, by the time you go to sleep, it's cooled off.

Drink iced water, take a mid-day shower. If you have good AC in your car, go for a ride - do a quick errand, listen to some music.

Who are the crackheads posting on this thread?

Looking to buy something R36?

You don't have AC, OP? Anything over 72 in the house is uncomfortable.

^^^I'm in Houston FWIW.

You are a man of great taste, R33.

Check into a nice hotel with great AC, put up a personal ad, and enjoy yourself.

I'm in SE Wisconsin also, Op. We went from a delightful spring to full-on summer overnight. I hate it as well. I function best at 40-60 DF which is why I love Fall and Spring. Winter is Ok as long as I can look at it from the comfort of my toasty house 🙂

Op, glad your AC is getting fixed today. However 75 degrees should not be intolerable. You should see a doctor.

Buy a window AC for your bedroom , and use that while your central AC is out. I had the same problem a few years ago and this was my solution until the tech arrived a week later. It's good to have on hand for emergencies such as this.

Anything above 65* makes me miserable.

I can only pile on. I hate the heat. Always have.

It's worse now; I have MS and most people with MS - but not all - are weakened severely by the heat. It also brings on nausea and bad headaches.

I'm wondering how much farther north I will have to move as our world gets hotter every year.

R45

I personally draw the line at 15.

For you r46

R48

Thank you! Had not seen the map. Very kind of you to point it out!

R42 I live in the same area. It hit 90 today, we're in the middle of a heatwave and it hasn't rained in over a week. And it's not even summer! You're right; we had no spring.

R34, I keep mine at 80 here in the Ocala National Forest. But I live in a mobile home.

BLUE Fort Lauderdale here. Originally from New York City for most of my life. It’s a fucking furnace out there with stifling humidity, and it’s been like this for a few weeks. God help me as peak heat is July/ August/ September. And to boot, I have the benefit of an ocean breeze, as I live two blocks away. I’ve spoken with old-timers and those who’ve lived here for 30-40+ years, and asked them; “is it me, or is he getting hotter year after year? They invariably say “no it’s not you, it’s getting hotter.” I think I’m going to get out of here in a few years. It’s hateful.

Go to Home Depot and buy a window AC until your central AC is fixed. Then you can be cook and stop whining.

*cool

Get the fuck out of Racine.

R55 Maybe he likes the ambiance.

R44 -- I use a 5K BTU window AC in my bedroom every summer because it allows me to turn off my central AC and just cool the room where I sleep.

HUGE energy and money saver!

OP here, and my central AC is fixed! Gloriously cool.

I stand by my statement that I *cannot* tolerate the heat—and I live two blocks from Lake Michigan!

And it’s not even officially summer.

Autumn can’t get here soon enough.

^ You're lucky being close to the lake, I'm 50 miles inland where it's sweltering 😓

[quote]I live two blocks from Lake Michigan!

Buck's a/c never would have broken down.

He got his AC fixed in two days and yet made a thread about it.

...oh the untold suffering!

R55 - but have you tried the Kringle?!?

[quote]The idea of retiring to Arizona or Florida or any hot spot has no appeal for me. I'd prefer the Pacific Northwest or any northern midwest state. The older I get, the less heat tolerant I've become

I lived in Arizona for 10+ years and my parents would sometimes come down (for way too long) during the winter from the mountain west.

The older they got, the less time they stayed because it hits high 80's in April in Phoenix, and they were like "NOPE". Even if it was still snowing back home, they still went back.

I'm surprised FL and AZ get the amount of retirees they do, because it is rough. It is easy to warm up (inside). A sweater and turn up the heat.

Cooling down ...

There is only so much AC can do, and it does not do shit as far as humidity goes when you leave the house.

I think lots of people associate winter with shoveling snow and difficult driving - so they think a place that’s always warm is paradise. But most people don’t think very critically or logically. The reality is that sweltering and humid is a miserable way to live, and those days in the south vastly outnumber snow days in most places up north.

We got a freak rain shower a while ago. It's been around 90* and no rain for two weeks around here. Air quality alerts, etc.

The birds are all tweeting and it feels surreal.

Don't want to deal with obnoxiously high temperatures and stinking humidity

I can feel the furnace like temps starting to back off here in south FL, it was in the low-mid 80s yesterday afternoon (albeit it was overcast).

You probably have a weak or diseased heart, op. I’d get an appointment with your doctor next week.

Geez, OP.

Buy one window unit - a 5000 BTU ac costs less than $200.

Problem solved.

My electric bill hovers around $100 a month, jumps to $200 in June and $300 July. Just got the latest bill and it's $390! It's never been that high before. The high temps plus a rate increase. Joy.

It hit 110 degrees today in Dallas. Right now (6:36 pm CDT) it's 108F.

I work from home for the most part so I didn't even know it was that hot today. My sister (who lives in New England) called and told me how hot it was going to be. The air is set to 74 degrees. It's often too cold for me in the house.

My electric bill has doubled since May.

However, I am on leveled billing and my latest 12-month average is $71.