Environment Summer Sucks

[aussierulesrules]

I love the heat, what i hate (as in the case of the Melbourne summer) is when the heat builds up over the course of a few days. Only to die down and giving us a streak of cold weather days. It annoys me as it usually takes me 2-3 days to get used to the heat, to the point where it doesn't phase me. Then when it goes back to being cold for the next week i'm back to square one and have to get used to it again in 2 weeks time.

What is your idea of "cold"? Low to mid 20's? Considering they are usually beautiful sunny days, they are perfect sort of temperatures for everyday living and non swimming related activities. And for the swimming, all you have to do is wait a few days before the stinking hot ones (anywhere from 30 to 45) come back again and it's perfect for swimming.
If you think low to mid 20's are "cold" days, how would you go living in northern Europe, or Britain, etc?

 

[Cuzz09]

Today in Adelaide its meant to be 35 and showers.

At the moment its hot and muggy.... GROSS!!

Bring on some kind of freaky storm and a cool change, I love opening up the house with fresh cool breezes naturally cooling the place down

 

[Xtreme]

What is your idea of "cold"? Low to mid 20's? Considering they are usually beautiful sunny days, they are perfect sort of temperatures for everyday living and non swimming related activities. And for the swimming, all you have to do is wait a few days before the stinking hot ones (anywhere from 30 to 45) come back again and it's perfect for swimming.
If you think low to mid 20's are "cold" days, how would you go living in northern Europe, or Britain, etc?

During the cold snap a few weeks ago it was only 15 - 19 (a cool 15-19, not a warm) in the morning, before it went to an early 20's sunny day.

Really cold days to me are 10 or under. But i'm in summer clothing virtually all year.

 

[PunyHumans!!!]

Haha that's bloody gold!

I reckon Leonora would give it a run for it's money being the arseh*le end of the world that it is.

Nah, I reckon Wiluna is much worse.

Anyway, someone else mentioned about the media fapping themselves silly over hot weather in Perth. Well **** me...its as if stinking 40 plus weather has never happened here before. Try living in the Pilbara.

I love the hot weather precisely for the beach and scantily clad bishes but its irritating when everyone turns on their aircon and other shit at the same time and power keeps dropping in and out.

 

[aussierulesrules]

I'm not a fan of the really hot days at all (if I'm outside, unless I'm at the beach). Black Saturday of course being the worst of those that I've experienced, when it apparently got up to about 46/47 in various parts of Melbourne (and was reportedly the hottest place on Earth that day). That was horrendous and it was like stepping into an oven when you went outside. Not fun at all (and we didn't have air con then, so it was damn hot inside, too, especially since the few days before were hot, so the house didn't get the chance to cool down). Around that time possums were dropping out of the trees, dead, presumably from the heat.
That's the thing I dislike about Melbourne's weather, the extremes in temperature (and the excessive wind at times). It gets pretty bloody cold in the winter (although no-where near as cold as places like New York, London, etc., etc) and then it can get so ****ing hot in the summer. I'd certainly prefer it if it was a bit less in the way of extremes at both ends. Thankfully we don't have that much in the way of humidity and heaps of rain, though.

 

[Zarrix]

Warm days don't bug me much at all really, just got to expect it over summer. I'm coping even at 42 degrees today. A few beers, cold baths etc. But I ****ing HATE the warm 25+ degree + humid nights we have been getting in Perth the last few nights. Room has no insulation or aircon. Got to the point where I was drinking just to get to sleep on Wednesday night.

 

[aussierulesrules]

It's been 30+ for much of the past couple of weeks here, but thankfully it has been unusually cool at night, which has been really nice. You can just open the window and get a nice cool breeze blowing in from about 10pm or so.
Warm nights suck massively when you don't have aircon, especially if it's been 40+ for a couple of days and the house hasn't really had the chance to cool down. Lying in bed sweating isn't exactly fun, or ideal for a good night's sleep!
This is our first summer with air con and it is sooooo good it's not funny. It makes you wonder how you ever got by without it.
For those that don't have aircon, have you tried an ice-pack wrapped in a tea towel, or two, when you're in bed? They can really help, especially if you have a fan to blow onto them as well.

 

[Byron_Clanger]

You think summer sucks? Try picking grapes around this time which I will be doing tomorrow, can someone say hell?

 

[Natho]

It's pretty shit weather to work in outdoors I tell you that.

 

[Alesana]

You think summer sucks? Try picking grapes around this time which I will be doing tomorrow, can someone say hell?

Try emptying shipping containers when they have been in the sun all day on a 40 degree day. Don't know what the temp was inside the containers but it was certainly more than the 40 degrees outside, easily 50+. I gladly don't do that anymore though

 

[Xtreme]

Try networking in a computer room with no air conditioner. It gets to 40+ degrees easily, but when the temperature is in the 30's....... add in every computer turned on at the same time, it is like an oven

 

[Eastdog]

On the news tonight they said the top temperature in Melbourne was 29 degrees. Where I was today near Scoresby it felt hotter it reached 33 degrees. A cold front is coming to Victoria in the next few days. The nights lately have been uncomfortable.

 

[BomberFletch31]

but its irritating when everyone turns on their aircon and other shit at the same time and power keeps dropping in and out.

Maybe Western Power should upgrade their power grid then. My aircon has been on practically 24/7 these past few days.

 

[MarcMaverick]

Try networking in a computer room with no air conditioner. It gets to 40+ degrees easily, but when the temperature is in the 30's....... add in every computer turned on at the same time, it is like an oven

Yeah Plus with the heat the computers slow down considerably.

 

[Asgardian]

Something of the same in Oslo.

Cuddle up with your Elkhounds

 

[nobulltiger]

Why do people whinge in Perth? You are living in an area with a mediterranean climate. Its like going to live in Jamaica and then complaining because its too hot. If you aren't happy then move.

Sums it up, noticed all the interstaters in queensland that moved there have no life cause they sit in the aircon and whinge when i was there! But its still too cold to live in melbourne cold is better

 

[sabre_ac]

I'd usually agree but then I see all the chicks walking around with shorts so short that their asses hang out. Sorry mate, I love suumer

Bingo, it's a huge plus for living in a hot climate.

Parts of North America are having a period of unseasonal warmth

 

[Gabbie]

It's been 30+ for much of the past couple of weeks here, but thankfully it has been unusually cool at night, which has been really nice. You can just open the window and get a nice cool breeze blowing in from about 10pm or so.
Warm nights suck massively when you don't have aircon, especially if it's been 40+ for a couple of days and the house hasn't really had the chance to cool down. Lying in bed sweating isn't exactly fun, or ideal for a good night's sleep!
This is our first summer with air con and it is sooooo good it's not funny. It makes you wonder how you ever got by without it.For those that don't have aircon, have you tried an ice-pack wrapped in a tea towel, or two, when you're in bed? They can really help, especially if you have a fan to blow onto them as well.

I bless mine every day lately. It's been raining on and off and when not it's humid, at least 90% and you really feel it when going out into the sun, which I tend to avoid as much as possible. I usually don't like sleeping in air con as you wake up with a dry throat but the past couple of days the o'head fan hasn't been enough.

Yesterday while out shopping with a friend I mentioned to her "my mother used to cook Sunday roasts in this sort of weather with no air con or overhead fans" So guess who dropped into one of the locals on Maggie for 2 quick icey cold frothies for morning tea.

We survived growing up in the tropics without air con as it was quite expensive way back then.

 

[Copernicus]

Bingo, it's a huge plus for living in a hot climate.

Parts of North America are having a period of unseasonal warmth

It's certainly been mild here in Atlanta. Even had 20ish days the last week or two, which is definitely unseasonable though by no means unheard of. The biggest thing is the lack of cold - normally the winters here cycle through cold snaps, then average, then warm, then back again. We've had maybe three cold days all winter. Last winter we had an entire month and a half of below average cold (and quite a lot of snow!).

The summers here are quite hot, though. I don't really mind it so much, but the locals (white, generally) whinge incessantly - primarily because most people who aren't genuinely old have lived most of their lives with central air. So going outside is quite an ordeal for them! Then again, you have the blacks who seem to walk around in jackets when it's 35 degrees. Not sure how they manage!

 

[morri]

Well it is continuing. All next week the forecaset for everyday is shower or two. Even when the sun does come out, it doesn't last long. Usually February can get quite hot, but I doubt it this year.

And the media **nkfest over the heat happens everywhere - it is the only think to talk about when they have nothing else to talk about.

Perth, send the heat to Sydney, we will gladly take it

yes lovely- that was 5 minutes before another shower. It was a lucky day in that it wasnt rained out totally.

 

[Tulip]

Lived in my house for ten years, and i always remember it being way cooler in here, even during drought. My neck is drenched

 

[aussierulesrules]

I bless mine every day lately. It's been raining on and off and when not it's humid, at least 90% and you really feel it when going out into the sun, which I tend to avoid as much as possible. I usually don't like sleeping in air con as you wake up with a dry throat but the past couple of days the o'head fan hasn't been enough.

Yesterday while out shopping with a friend I mentioned to her "my mother used to cook Sunday roasts in this sort of weather with no air con or overhead fans" So guess who dropped into one of the locals on Maggie for 2 quick icey cold frothies for morning tea.

We survived growing up in the tropics without air con as it was quite expensive way back then.

I think you just adapt and acclimatise when you have to, but once you have options like AC, it becomes easy to take that option.
Glad you mentioned the bolded part, though. I've been sleeping really badly in the past 2-3 weeks and a lot of that has had to do with waking up with a really dry mouth and feeling dehydrated, then waking up in the morning feeling like I'd hardly slept.
I'd forgotten that the aircon can have that effect and was starting to wonder if there was something really wrong with me, like diabetes or something.
I'd started putting bowls of water around in the winter, once we got the reverse-cycle system and had the heat on daily, but I haven't had them around for the aircon this summer. I'll try that and see if it helps.
Does anyone else have good tips for stopping the dry mouth caused by aircons?

 

[Alesana]

Don't sleep with your mouth open? I have a deviated septum so I don't even really have an option

 

[MarcMaverick]

Don't sleep with your mouth open? I have a deviated septum so I don't even really have an option

Yeowch! How in the hell did you get a deviated septum?

Summer sucks for us but if you have laundry to do it is fantastic. On Black Saturday I got two and a half loads of washing done.

 

[Gabbie]

I think you just adapt and acclimatise when you have to, but once you have options like AC, it becomes easy to take that option.
Glad you mentioned the bolded part, though. I've been sleeping really badly in the past 2-3 weeks and a lot of that has had to do with waking up with a really dry mouth and feeling dehydrated, then waking up in the morning feeling like I'd hardly slept.
I'd forgotten that the aircon can have that effect and was starting to wonder if there was something really wrong with me, like diabetes or something.
I'd started putting bowls of water around in the winter, once we got the reverse-cycle system and had the heat on daily, but I haven't had them around for the aircon this summer. I'll try that and see if it helps.
Does anyone else have good tips for stopping the dry mouth caused by aircons?

That is a memory for me. Winter here means maybe shutting the bedroom window at night for a couple of weeks!!

Way back when I lived in Melbourne I figured out the air con dry throat issue when I went on hols or away and stayed in a hotel. It has it's upside but when you can't open the window it can be annoying. Just have a large glass of water by the bed maybe.

It's stinko humid here today, well it is the wet season and when it's not raining, Oi!, so air con is earning it's keep. I've just come from outside and it was sooooooooo sweat making even after 5 minutes.