Heat Wave

Jul 16th 2010
Suzanne EnochWhen Goddesses Fall To Earth

55 Responses to “Heat Wave”

1. B on 16 Jul 2010 at 1:38 am #

   It’s chilly here in Brazil lately, maybe in the 70s?

   Ideal temperature? HOT, when I’m cold. And COLD, when I’m hot. It’s that simple. It’s always been like that, always will be.

   I’m usually cold, though! I get cold real easily!

2. KellyProellocks on 16 Jul 2010 at 1:47 am #

   Suzanne, your place would have me freezing. I love temps that are about 29 degrees celcius (84.2 degrees farenheit for all you Americans) I have got to be warm because I hate to be cold. I barely survive winter in Queensland where the average temps in winter for Toowoomba are between 60 -70 degrees farenheit. I make a cave out of my blankets and also have my electric blanket on for about 4 or 5 months. In summer though I love to sleep with the windows open and on a warm night then I have a fan on me but oh I am comfortable. This last summer we had temps that were the mid 80’s at night and that was getting to be uncomfortable for me. It doesn’t drive people nuts mainly because for quite a while I lived on my own and only moved in with other people 2 weeks ago.

3. LisaK on 16 Jul 2010 at 1:56 am #

   What an absolutely fitting topic, Suzie, since Germany’s kinda burning at the moment. Yesterday and the day before that it was rather chilly for a change, but the past two weeks – and, if you believe the weather stations, it will go on like this, were hell. Literally.

   Nobody wants to go outside, it’s so freaking hot, like 35° Celsius – that must be 96° Fahrenheit if I’m correct. Everybody shuts the doors and the windows and closes the curtains. When I go outside to water my plants I’m sweating when I go back inside after five minutes. And I hate it!

   Not only because being a redhead I get burned so easily, but also because I don’t feel comfortable. I could kill all those people who do soooo love the heat. I get big circulatery-problems and want to do nothing but lie somewhere and do nothing. My ideal temperature would be about 20°C, I’m too lazy to look the Fahrenheit up atm. That would be perfect.
   Sigh.

4. Archer on 16 Jul 2010 at 2:16 am #

   We are also having a killer summer in Ankara this year. Its even hot when it rains. Right now its around 90°F+
   and extremely sticky. Humidity in a city without a beach is just wrong!!!

   I walk to and from work so the bottom part of my arm is tan while the top is white. Looks horrible and I have to wear sunblock its gotten so bad. Smelling like I’m going to the beach is so depressing :-/

   My boyfriend lives in Scotland so he doesn’t get cold easily. Last time I was there I couldn’t move my neck for two days because of the cold Although strangely the cold from an AC doesn’t bother me.

   The ideal temperature for me would be 70°F-80°F without humidity and with the option of going to the beach.

5. Judy F on 16 Jul 2010 at 3:33 am #

   We been having some hotter then you know where weather here in Ohio. Yesterday it was 90 something but with the humidity it was over 100. It just sucks the breathe out of you and makes me sick.

   I like to be comfortable. At work even in the summer I have to bring a sweater cause my coworkers like is freaking freezing. I keep my bedroom ac unit on around 72-74 when I am home bump it up a bit when I go to bed. I am like you Suzanne I would prefer to have my long pants pj’s on to go to bed. I like the cocoon effect.

6. Freshechelle on 16 Jul 2010 at 4:42 am #

   It’s so freaking hot and sticky in NY. I want to go back to Chicago where I experienced the best summer weather.

   Cold is the only way to fly!! Amen, Suzanne – you know how to live. I don’t understand why people like summer so much since it’s usually so icky sticky (NY humidity 75-95% on average.)

   By the way, today will be 94 degrees with 83% humidity and I’ve got to get all gussied up for an early evening wedding. I’ll be a wilted flower in a cocktail dress.

   Nicole out there is Utah, I envy you your low humidity climate.

7. kris on 16 Jul 2010 at 4:48 am #

   Sunny, low 70’s, no humidity, light breeze, bright blue skies. If I could have every day like that, I’d be in heaven.

8. Kathy on 16 Jul 2010 at 5:20 am #

   cold cold and more cold! even when i wasn’t fluffy, I liked it cold.
   I have an ac in my livingroom window from May to Sept/Oct and it cools dwn my apt to a livable temp of 20C. we have had the most humid days in the last month so I’ve stayed inside like a hermit, trying to breath.
   a few yrs ago a friend came to my door and I had the ac turned so low, that i was wearing shorts and a fleece sweater. she thought i was insane.

   In the winter, it gets very brisk in the Maritimes, and I sleep with the window open, with a fan in front drawing more cold air in. I’ve not had the heat on in several rads since I moved in to this place. my bedroom gets down to a comfy 10C and I snuggle under the blankets happily.when I visit my friend downstairs in her tropical heated apt, I wear shorts in the middle of winter, when she comes up, I have the warmest fleece ready for her.

9. LindaB on 16 Jul 2010 at 5:41 am #

   A temperature around 65 to 70 suits me best. I’d much rather be cold than hot any time. And oh I love my fans too. Moving air– Yep, that’s the ticket!

   P.S. It has been in the 90s for weeks here in the Northeast with humidity making it feel like 378 degrees here too.

   My question is why it can’t it be just spring or all all year ’round?

10. kay on 16 Jul 2010 at 6:02 am #

    Yesterday, it was in the 90’s a storm went through and lowered it to the 80’s…don’t like heat. My favorite outside temperature is low 70’s. Much prefer the cold, in the winter my thermostat is set at 68 and I am quite comfortable…although my husband whines that it is too cold. I just throw him a blanket.

11. Teresa on 16 Jul 2010 at 6:18 am #

    I definitely prefer cold weather, I’ve come to detest summer! Since I also live in SoCal, I can so relate to what you’ve been suffering through Suzanne. Yesterday it was about 102 degrees here with the humidity. Humidity just sucks what little energy I have completely out of me. I can’t enjoy reading, eating, sleeping…anything when it’s too hot for me. I have a book review I need to finish, but have been putting it off because it’s too damn hot to concentrate on it properly.

    Another awful thing about the heat is that I sweat, a lot! My aunt was born with no sweat glands, and sometimes I feel like I was born with extra. It’s not pretty. Even though it doesn’t get all that cold here, I’m very much looking forward to fall/winter. : (

12. LoriHandeland on 16 Jul 2010 at 6:20 am #

    Everything seems to be burning this year. It’s been near 90 in WI for weeks. I’ve had the air on for that long and that’s rare. I prefer the windows open and we can usually get away with that for most of the summer, barring a few nasty days. But not this year.

    I used to always be cold. Took a hot bath before bed every night. But that’s changed in the past few years. I rarely wear sweaters anymore at all. Turtlenecks drive me nuts.

    I used to like temps in the 80s but now I like the 70s or high 60s. That’s just about perfect.

13. Pesky on 16 Jul 2010 at 6:42 am #

    I’m in protest of the heat up here in NY these past two weeks! I live NORTH for a reason. Oi.

    Now I know how the wicked witch of the west felt when Dorothy threw water on her. To quote Biloxi Blues it’s africa hot up here, Tarzan would have had a hard time dealing this this heat.

    However I have some fairly extensive disc damage from a car accident and air conditioners are a no no, so I live with window fans in every room and since I’m in a brick house 99 percent of the days of the year that is enough. When it’s not…I go see a movie.

14. Lisa Hill on 16 Jul 2010 at 6:48 am #

    Suzanne it’s hot here too. 95 expected for today, and we always have the humidity. BUT, you would be very comfortable in my house. My air conditioners are set at 61 degrees.

    I love the fall and winter, although if I proclaim this to my fellow New Yorkers, they would lynch me. It is not PC in NY to like the colder months, but I love them. I walk even when it’s 20 degrees and the wind is whipping. I come home sweaty.

    I do not care for the summer. At all. I like it chilly. I like to light my candles, light a fire, make some soup or stew and snuggle up beneath a blanket for a good read. Because I live in an old house (100 years old) we still have radiators. I had my husband remove the one in our bedroom because I was too hot!

15. cail on 16 Jul 2010 at 7:34 am #

    I am totally a cold weather girl! I absolutely hate hot days. It’s supposed to be a bit icky today, but at least its usually about 10 degrees cooler here than it is in NY. We have the water, and being slightly farther north to thank for that. I’ll be in an un-air-conditioned building all day today, but i’m right on the water with a fan and some cross ventilation. oh, and shorts.

    What i would give for 60 degree weather and a fire in the fireplace right now…

16. SuzyQ on 16 Jul 2010 at 7:44 am #

    I don’t mind the heat but I hate the humidity. I look like a puff ball today.

17. Julia London on 16 Jul 2010 at 7:45 am #

    Every year I go to Taos thinking I want out of the heat. Every year, I can’t take the really cold mornings there–or worse, if I go later in the year.

    Every year, during the winter in Austin (I don’t use heat either, Suze), I think I can’t wait for summer. Every summer hits, and I whine constantly about how hot it is.

    I want to live where it is a balmy 80 degrees and sunny all day every day. Point me to that place. I am going there.

18. Lorena on 16 Jul 2010 at 7:53 am #

    I’m pretty flexible, although if I had my druthers, it’d be 60 – 65 at night, 75 during the day, rain for precisely two hours every other day …. etc

    Of course, since I live in central Florida, that happens about once a year, on average. I don’t generally keep the house cold because mine isn’t well insulated, and the electric bills would be ridiculous. So I pop the ’stat up to 85 when I leave the house in the morning, turn it down to 80 when I get home and turn on a fan in whatever room I’m in at the time. However, I have to have cold to sleep (never mind that I also kick the covers off on a regular basis), so the a/c goes down to about 72 at night. In winter, it’s worse because I’d rather try to cool down from heat than warm up from cold. Can’t handle cold toes and fingers, especially since I love going barefoot and hate wearing gloves. People look at you funny when you do both.

19. Lorena on 16 Jul 2010 at 7:54 am #

    re the fan….want to hear “weird”? I need fresh/moving air. I keep windows open in winter just a crack, or turn on a fan, for precisely that reason. If I’m not in front of an a/c vent, where I can feel the air blowing on my face, I need a fan or window open. Has nothing to do with the temperature. I probably suffocated in a former life.

20. Sheridan on 16 Jul 2010 at 8:01 am #

    I was talking about this last night at dinner. I am also in SoCal and not liking the heat. I am on the west side, so it is not quite as hot in the valley, but my apartment gets no breeze. My landlord has kept everything in its 1960’s original state, so no ceiling fans in my place… so when I woke up this morning, my main living area was a balmy 81 degrees inside. I have an AC in my bedroom or I would never be able to sleep.

    I want cool and cold. I really don’t like being hot unless I am traveling in some exotic locale and I am distracted by the interesting.

    At work it can get worse since it is hot and then we toss in strobes, modeling lights and an overactive kitchen for more heated fun. blech.

    For me, I suppose my ideal would be 68-70 in the day with a slight breeze then dipping down at night.. and bring on the winter weather during the season

21. evlqn on 16 Jul 2010 at 8:13 am #

    I do not like heat, heat is for cooking not living. Perfect temperature for me is 58 degrees, unfortunately for me I am the only one who likes the temp that low.
    When I lived in LA I first lived right on the beach so the heat wasn’t too bad, then we moved to Culver City and I lived in a second floor apt with windows on all sides so I got the ocean breezes. Here in Oregon it feels like Satan’s backside and I really hate that! I figure if I get chilly, that is what sweaters are for. My sons had never owned coats until we moved to Nevada, kind of needed them there.

22. Kathy on 16 Jul 2010 at 8:13 am #

    yesterday i surprised myself by giving in to the heat while sitting on a park bench waiting for a bus. I flipped my mp3 on, took a mag out of my library bag and sat in the sun.
    somedays it feels good to do that- as long as i know I can escape back to my cool apt!

23. KellyProellocks on 16 Jul 2010 at 8:28 am #

    Who wants my cold feet? Seriously they feel like iceblocks attatched to my legs.

24. Pesky on 16 Jul 2010 at 8:36 am #

    Spa Socks Kelly…seriously they’re the best thing ever invented. I’ve got a gazillion pairs.

25. Moonsanity (Brenda) on 16 Jul 2010 at 8:50 am #

    OMG, we are kindred spirits…I am EXACTLY like you. Shorts and t-shirts…that’s me. Except I need socks inside in the air. My feet betray me. They are unlike the rest of my body. Stupid feet. I’m in Michigan and it’s been 90 and very humid. I’ve been avoiding the outdoors like the plague.

26. Sarah Simas on 16 Jul 2010 at 9:07 am #

    Hi Susanne!

    I live in Central CA and it gets down right boiling here. LOL Of course, I’m preggo with #3, so I’m always hot. During the summer, I can tolerate the AC at 78 or 79* during the day, but like you, need it cold to sleep. And I agree with you about winter. My parent’s come bundled for the artic when they visit. I just can’t stand being hot!! If I had my way I’d be living up in the northern part of the coast where it’s cold and rainy all the time! As for hotels, I jst wished rooms came with a ceiling fan. I run mine even in the winter.

    Thanks for making me smile and know that I’m not the only person who likes it chilly!

27. Suzanne Enoch on 16 Jul 2010 at 9:12 am #

    Oh, I’m so glad I’m not the only one who prefers cool weather. I admit I would probably freeze to death in a place that has a REAL winter, but I could do SoCal winter all year long.

    Kathy, you made me lol. I think my being fluffy does have something to do with liking cooler weather, but I’ve always been that way, too.

    Fresh, the year the romance conference was in Chicago, the city was in the middle of what they were calling a hundred-year heat wave. OMG, it was like walking out of the hotel and into a wall of hot, sticky tar. SO humid. I swore I’d never complain about SoCal humidity ever again, but hey. *g*

28. Janae on 16 Jul 2010 at 9:20 am #

    I’m in SoCal as well – along the coast, and it’s been HOT. Usually, the ocean breeze kills the heat, which is why we have no A/C. There are a few days when the breeze just disappears. Yesterday, was one of those days. I took my dd to the beach to watch the sunset, and usually you need a jacket, even on a summer evening. It was perfect.

    I’d say that 68-75 is perfect for me. Above 85, and it’s too hold. Below 55, too cold. Having grown up in Montana I have to say that once things get below freezing and especially below zero, that the numbers don’t matter. Cold is cold. Same thing heat – after 85 the numbers don’t matter. Hot is hot.

29. Michelle B on 16 Jul 2010 at 9:36 am #

    Oh Suzanne, thermostat at 78? Too hot for me. Here in Northern Alabama it is hot. Monkey Hot! (another way to say Pesky’s Jungle Hot) It’s my first summer here and they tell me this is hotter than normal. Our temp is set at 72 and I am freezing out DH and DS. I always tell them they can put on more clothes, but I can’t take anymore off. My perfect weather would be 55-70 degrees. Once it hits 80 I’m uncomfortable. I’ll put up with Monkey Hot summers here because Fall, Winter, and Spring were beautiful. Small price to pay, but I wish this heat would let up a little.

30. Suzanne Enoch on 16 Jul 2010 at 9:50 am #

    Do any of y’all who hate heat at night own a Chillow? My family gave me one for Christmas a couple of years ago, and I’m on my second one right now. Oh, how I love my Chillow. It keeps my neck cool, which helps cool down the rest of me.

31. evlqn on 16 Jul 2010 at 10:03 am #

    I had never heard of a Chillow before. What we do is make cooling tubes from fabric, put about 1/4t water crystals inside, sew the ends and then hydrate in cold water. They keep your neck or wherever you put them nice and cool.

32. Madeline Hunter on 16 Jul 2010 at 10:04 am #

    This heat wave is everywhere, I swear. I was in Europe, in countries that tout 77 this time of year, and it was in the 90s. I hate heat but I really, really hate humid heat. I grew up in VA and my memories of summer consist of a) swimming at the pool we joined–I stayed in for hours— and (b) suffering during horrible nights without air conditioning. Some nights were mercilessly hot.
    I like a nice, even 70 degrees. No way I would tolerate 78 in the house. I also have ceiling fans but they do not make enough difference. My dh pushes the thermostat up to 73 some days, but I can tell when he does.
    I have a sister like you, Suzie. She wants it cold. I once traveled with her and she would put the temp in our hotel room down to like 60 or lower. I wore a coat in the room, and slept under my covers and hers on top. It was so cold my fingers would get stiff, LOL.
    I need to go out today in this stinking heat too. I am in avoidance mode right now.

33. Madeline Hunter on 16 Jul 2010 at 10:07 am #

    Lorena, I crack open the window in winter too. It drives my dh nuts. You are heating the outside, he says. No, I am getting fresh air in, I says. Just a tiny crack, to get a tiny flow, is all I need.

34. Madeline Hunter on 16 Jul 2010 at 10:09 am #

    Suzie, I have an aunt that runs cold. She is always cold. It can be 90 out and she wears wool sweaters and coats. In the middle of summer she walks around with a wool hat on. I would say something is wrong with her, except that she is now about 94 years old, so it worked for her, I guess.

35. Sheridan on 16 Jul 2010 at 10:28 am #

    *googlin’ Chillow*

36. Malea on 16 Jul 2010 at 10:36 am #

    My ideal temp is sunny, 80 degrees, no more than 30% humidity, with a night-time low in the 50s.

37. LindaB on 16 Jul 2010 at 10:43 am #

    Lorena, I’m with you! I have a fan on year ’round when cool air isn’t blowing directly on me. Since I’m a terrible swimmer, though, I figure I drowned in a past life, but that’s kinda like suffocating too, right?

38. LouisaCornell on 16 Jul 2010 at 10:51 am #

    LisaK, 96 degrees in Germany?? Say it ain’t so! The most pleasant summers of my life were the 2 years I lived in Germany and the 3 years I lived in England. I live in LA – Lower Alabama, where the current temp is a balmy 94 degrees with 100 million percent humidity. Jungle hot – to quote Biloxi Blues “Tarzan couldn’t deal with this heat.”

    You would think someone born here, who spent early childhood here and moved BACK would love the heat. NO! I spend a large portion of my budget on air conditioners and fans. Suzanne if you find an F-1 Tornado Fan let me know! I cannot sleep without a fan. I have portable battery operated fans I take everywhere. Drives my Mom nuts. She keeps her house so HOT. I can’t take it. Unlike here I didn’t grow up picking cotton, tobacco and peanuts in the Alabama sun. I am a child of AC !! I need cool !!

    I live in a house with dogs and cats who give me dirty looks if the temperature goes above 70. Fans have to be placed on tables or bookshelves because if not they’re blocked by canine and feline bodies plunked down in front of them.

    Fortunately this year there are four of us traveling up from Bama sharing a suite. We two cold girls will room together

39. AmyS on 16 Jul 2010 at 11:03 am #

    I am never happy with the weather. In the winter I complain it is too cold and in the summer I complain it is too hot. I would love it to be between 60-70 degrees all year round. Unfortunately, I live in Canada and that is never going to happen.

    I always keep the house at 68, winter and summer it never changes. I also sleep with a fan every night, it doesn’t matter if it is winter or summer, but I think that is a noise thing.

40. Fiona on 16 Jul 2010 at 11:33 am #

    OK, I live in MN. I KNOW cold. But we’ve been having hot, humid weather. YUCK. That’s one of the main reasons we left Florida. Of course, hot here is 85. LOL.

    My perfect temp range in the summer is 70-80, with a light breeze and low humidity. We often have that for weeks here. I wilt at anything above 90.

    Next week I will exist on iced tea and watermelon, as we are supposed to be above 90 for most of the week. I’ll take my morning walk before 8, and walk in the evening after 9 (it’s light until 9:45).

    In the winter, in needs to be around 10- 20 above. Any warmer and the snow turns to slush. Once it gets 0 to -10, I feel cold. Even with my winter duds.

    Inside, I like the AC to stay at 78, and the heat to stay at 65. I have a very narrow range.

41. Nicole Jordan on 16 Jul 2010 at 11:33 am #

    Oh, boy, I’m so cold natured it’s not funny. If I’m excercising I like 50-60 degrees, but if I’m just sitting, I like 76-78 degrees in the summer and 73-74 in winter. And I do like it cooler for sleeping.

    So sorry you’re having a heat wave, Suzanne! Both our airconditioners have gone out in the past 3 weeks. One was 23 years old, so it was time. But the other one was only 2 years old and the compressor blew. Still waiting for that to be fixed!

42. Suzanne Enoch on 16 Jul 2010 at 11:47 am #

    Fiona, when you mentioned -10 degrees, I actually got a little chill. I never even saw snow up close until I was 10, when we drove up to Big Bear. No, no, no. Cold is 50ish. -10 is nuts.

43. Ronlyn on 16 Jul 2010 at 12:18 pm #

    Living in Seattle is perfect for me. 70-75 degrees and I’m a happy camper. I don’t mind a few days of heat in the summer, but I HAVE to have it cool to sleep. I’ve been known to grab a couple icepacks and sleep with them on my head to keep me cool if it’s too hot. LOL

44. Sabrina Jeffries on 16 Jul 2010 at 12:36 pm #

    The temp thing is becoming a problem for me now that I’ve hit menopause. I’m SO hot. Hubby does like to keep it cool in the house (74 degrees) even in summer, but I vacillate between being too cold in that to sweating in that. Upstairs I keep it at 76 degrees and put on fans. I used to keep it at 78 and get cold. Not any longer. At night, I have to crank it down lower still–to at least 73 degrees.

    The worst part is that I go back and forth. I’m sitting here in 74 degrees, with the fan on, perfectly comfortable, but all of a sudden getting hot. Ten minutes ago, I was freezing.

    Worse yet, Hubby likes it warmer than he used to, so now I’M the one cranking the AC down and he’s the one freezing. Very weird.

45. Laine on 16 Jul 2010 at 1:32 pm #

    It’s the middle of winter here in Sydney. Last week I wore my very light golfing jacket on one day. Normally I wear a denim skirt, a polyester blouse and leather thongs. Everyone asks me if I”m cold. I can feel it’s cold, but it usually doesn’t bother me unless I’m sick. We haven’t used the heater in our house for more than 30 years either.
    But summer – yuk! I start to wilt when we have days over 40. And I hate hot nights when you sweat instead of sleep.
    Plus if we get 3 days over 40 the flying foxes start suffering from heat exhaustion and we have to go to the colony and start hosing in an attemt to save them.

46. Mikki Mouse on 16 Jul 2010 at 1:46 pm #

    I live the bay area where it is roasting hot pretty much from the end of April until the middle of October. Like you, I wear shorts 360 days a year, too. I wear shorts on Christmas day, sometimes. I grew up in SF and moved to the ‘burbs after we had our first child. On days like today, when it’s already 101 outside I miss the city and it’s bay breeze. My father-in-law always says the coldest winter he’s ever felt is August in San Francisco. I could do with some August right about now.

47. LisaK on 16 Jul 2010 at 2:05 pm #

    Louise, I’m sorry to say so, but it’ true!
    I’d rather it wasn’t, though. It’s evening here and there’s rain and lighting and thunder outside and it’s still warm. You’re absolutely right when you suggest it isn’t normal but there seems to be some crazy heat wave in all of Europe atm.
    I’m glad, though, that it wasn’t as humid today as it was last weak. Makes it more tolerable, at least.

48. LisaK on 16 Jul 2010 at 2:06 pm #

    Ack, I misspelled your name, I’m sorry, of course it’s “Louisa”!

49. Barbara Elness on 16 Jul 2010 at 2:09 pm #

    I’m from California and now live in Florida, so I’m used to the heat but not the humidity. I keep my house at 80 during the summer and I’m pretty comfortable because the a/c keeps the moisture down. If I get hot, I just turn on one of the fans (or walk outside in the 90+ heat for a few minutes and when I come back in it feels cool). During the winter, I try to keep the house at about 74 because I do get cold, but I usually put on a sweatshirt and a blanket while watching television to stay warm. It always tickles me that the temperature I set my heat on is what a lot of people want their a/c to be set at (my sis keeps her’s at 72). I keep dreaming of moving to Oregon, where it won’t be so hot, but I’m not sure if I’ll like the cold.

50. Suzanne Enoch on 16 Jul 2010 at 2:47 pm #

    Oh, Mikki, don’t tell me it’s 100+ in San Francisco! All my dreams of coolness are melting.

51. Paula on 16 Jul 2010 at 3:50 pm #

    I live in the UK and here the country is divided scotland is cold and wet and the south is hot humid and the last few days we have had, where I live rain showers some of which have been quite heavy. It is chilly tonight but it has been warm and humid in the day (20-25C)
    I like it warm about 18-20C and in the winter the thermostat is kept at 20C

52. Mikki Mouse on 16 Jul 2010 at 4:06 pm #

    Don’t melt yet…It’s 75 in SF today. I’m out in the Bay area at the moment…so of course it’s 25 degree’s hotter 30 miles away.

53. Margaret on 16 Jul 2010 at 5:28 pm #

    You’re my kind of woman, Suzanne! I could have written your blog for you today. My a/c stays at 70F from the first time temps are above 80F and stays on until sometime in the autumn. Plus I have a Vornado fan which I keep on the nightstand at arm’s reach. It runs year around since I also use it for white noise.

    I’m from Houston and Galveston County Texas where it gets hotter than the back side of hell. I’ve been gone so long that the 40F they think is sub-freezing is nice and balmy to me. I keep my coat in the car all winter and only wear it if I need to sit out at some rugby field or other. We got our first window a/c units when I was about 12 or so. I kept that baby cranked to minimum temps. My cousin said she had to bring her long johns and an electric blanket when she spent the night. LOL

    In 71 years, I haven’t changed a bit. Hospital stay. Bring my fan, darn it, or else. I need cold and moving air on my face.

    Signed,
    Chilly Willy

54. Margaret on 16 Jul 2010 at 5:31 pm #

    Louise, my Cocker Spaniel, Bella, crawls up right beside me to stick her nose into the wind my Vornado puts out. She looks like a WW1 flying ace with her ears flapping in the breeze. LOL

55. Tina on 17 Jul 2010 at 1:50 am #

    I like 75 – 80 outside and 65 inside during the summer.

    Unfortunately for me, neither my apartment nor my vehicle have air conditioning.

    The thermometer sitting on top of my fan in the living room currently shows 77 degrees.
    It is warmer in the bedroom.
    Guess who is camping on the couch in front of the fan.