It's days like these that make me look forward to the winter slush. How do you get through the summer burn? My brain is scrambled, and I have the beginnings of a sunburn.
My summer choice for combating the escalating temperatures?
My current apartment is on the top floor and has 3 large west-facing windows (basically: one for every major room). It turns into a solar oven around 3 pm; even closing the shades doesn't help much.
Needless to say, staying in my air-conditioned lab or (better yet) my air-conditioned BASEMENT office always seems like a fantastic idea at this time of year. Even on the weekends.
It is easier to deal with summer heat if it is a constant presence. (By "constant", I mean that we won't see 65 degrees for months on end.) It is much harder to deal with a few weeks in the 90s, because you can't adapt.
One way I adapt is to wear long sleeved shirts until it is regularly in the 90s. Another is to wear a hat to keep off the sun.
We keep our house at 78 in summer, which makes the transition easier. Ditto for not using any A/C in the car in the morning or for short trips.
Our campus offers another alternative, which is to keep buildings so cold in the summer that you need a long sleeve shirt to keep from shivering. That has the advantage that 90 to 100 deg heat actually feels "nice" for about 5 minutes. I can walk between buildings without breaking a sweat.
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My current apartment is on the top floor and has 3 large west-facing windows (basically: one for every major room). It turns into a solar oven around 3 pm; even closing the shades doesn't help much.
Needless to say, staying in my air-conditioned lab or (better yet) my air-conditioned BASEMENT office always seems like a fantastic idea at this time of year. Even on the weekends.
It is easier to deal with summer heat if it is a constant presence. (By "constant", I mean that we won't see 65 degrees for months on end.) It is much harder to deal with a few weeks in the 90s, because you can't adapt.
One way I adapt is to wear long sleeved shirts until it is regularly in the 90s. Another is to wear a hat to keep off the sun.
We keep our house at 78 in summer, which makes the transition easier. Ditto for not using any A/C in the car in the morning or for short trips.
Our campus offers another alternative, which is to keep buildings so cold in the summer that you need a long sleeve shirt to keep from shivering. That has the advantage that 90 to 100 deg heat actually feels "nice" for about 5 minutes. I can walk between buildings without breaking a sweat.
I'd like to say water parks, but yes, air-conditioned office for me as well...
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