Today (June 21st) is summer solstice
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.
Move further north.
You mean like to the living room?
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.
Put up a simple fan and sparkle water on your naked skin. That will bring your temperature down pretty quick for cheap.
Cons is that it’s a little trying to be constantly spraying water on yourself and that it can be a little messy. It’s also more convenient to do in a private space like your house. But it’s way cheaper than air conditioning and you will be as cool. The principle of evaporative cooling is amazing.
They sell misters for use outside connected to a hose. They’re super effective in the drier climates.
Soon?
Just what I was thinking, it’s 28⁰C in Edinburgh today! 🥵
I see home assistant 👍
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.
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.
Well okay but the name “Midsummer” does kind of make my point.
Sunglasses, cigarette and a leather jacket.
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 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 😮😮😮
Loose fitting clothes, big hat, bottle of water, shade.
Resting your feet in a bucket of cool water.
Works amazingly well. Change the water every so often.
Use the water for plants.
It’s finally hot enough that I broke out a sun dress.
Go to the Southern hemisphere.
We get a meal delivery service each week and they use the giant ice packs. So I’ve taken to just keeping two or three in my freezer and then sleeping with a pack at my feet each night or carrying it in the car while I do errands. And I get fresh ones delivered each week. A nice way to recycle the packs
Put them in front of a fan.
