So, last year my state made the decision to de-regulate electricity prices and of course, we knew the prices were going to go up.
Well, the end of May always brings hot weather (well, what WE term as 'Hot' here in SW PA) and much sweating and comps start running fans on Hi just to keep from overheating.
Normally, we'd put in 3 ACs, but we made the decision to only put 1 AC in the gaming room and pray that's enough, and for awhile it was working, but I got tired of losing sleep because I'm doing nothing but roasting, tossing and turning all night long, and I was missing my computer, which I could only use a little here and there until the room would start heating up to unbearable temperatures (not to mention I was afraid it would start overheating soon) and of course, at night, the bugs start getting through the screen and I would start getting eaten alive, which caused me to close the window/curtains, which only decreases airflow, and blaaaaaah.
Well, we finally caved in and said "***** it, we'll just pay the higher bills" and put my AC in earlier today and....ahhhh, sweet cool air, and I can use MY comp again.
YAY.
Muchly happy, now I can play WoW again with my Naga, Nostromo and Banshee, have a nice large monitor a foot in front of my face, comfy office chair, etc.
And who knows, mebbe I get some decent sleep tonight for once.
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Here in SW Ohio the temps get rather hot as well. I used to have 3 window AC units and it just wasn't enough for this house. My room and my computer room would cook. I liquidated some investments to redistribute elsewhere, and decided to purchase a new central AC unit. The difference is amazing.
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Kastigir wrote:
Here in SW Ohio the temps get rather hot as well. I used to have 3 window AC units and it just wasn't enough for this house. My room and my computer room would cook. I liquidated some investments to redistribute elsewhere, and decided to purchase a new central AC unit. The difference is amazing.
Problem is, we own a 1976 "mobile" (that is no longer mobile; it is attached to a basement dug after the fact, as well as a porch addition) home, and well... it needs a new roof, insulation, etc.
Putting central air in this thing would be a huge waste of money lol. What air it could generate would likely go right through the walls out into the air outside.
Hopefully someday though, we can remodel the place enough to try something like that.
The town of Southwest, PA had 83° weather today.
That's it?
Born and raised here in Texas. Try this on for size. And that's nothing. Wait until the summer really gets going.
Let's just say that a lack of air conditioning here in Texas is pretty much a cardinal sin.
Edited, Jun 6th 2011 12:13am by IDrownFish
That's it?
Born and raised here in Texas. Try this on for size. And that's nothing. Wait until the summer really gets going.
Let's just say that a lack of air conditioning here in Texas is pretty much a cardinal sin.
Edited, Jun 6th 2011 12:13am by IDrownFish
I grew up in NM, I can handle heat fine. On the other hand I'm a complete wuss when it comes to humidity (Apparently my hometown hid 4* the other day, and is often in the single digits). It's like the slightest bit of humidity multiplies my relative temperature by 10-25%
Yeah, hahaha, I have one AC for a 3 bedroom house in southern New Mexico, and it's a swamp cooler.
The temps are hitting near to 100* outside, and possibly higher than that inside (bad insulation, swamp cooler).
Comp's running at 50*C on the processors, 70* on the graphics.
How are you over heating a computer in a house with less square footage per AC, 15* less on temps?
I guess it's New Mexico heat that makes me scoff when people complain about 85* >.>
The temps are hitting near to 100* outside, and possibly higher than that inside (bad insulation, swamp cooler).
Comp's running at 50*C on the processors, 70* on the graphics.
How are you over heating a computer in a house with less square footage per AC, 15* less on temps?
I guess it's New Mexico heat that makes me scoff when people complain about 85* >.>
It's 30 degrees Celsius here, which as hot as it gets around these parts. Woke up at 9 o'clock despite my room being on the shadow side.
I don't do well with heat. I much prefer the cold.
Edited, Jun 6th 2011 9:35am by Mazra
I don't do well with heat. I much prefer the cold.
Edited, Jun 6th 2011 9:35am by Mazra
Please "talk up" if your comprehension white-shifts. I will use simple-happy language-words to help you understand.
Mazra wrote:
It's 30 degrees Celsius here, which as hot as it gets around these parts. Woke up at 9 o'clock despite my room being on the shadow side.
I don't do well with heat. I much prefer the cold.
Edited, Jun 6th 2011 9:35am by Mazra
I don't do well with heat. I much prefer the cold.
Edited, Jun 6th 2011 9:35am by Mazra
Same here.
As to my comp, well.
I don't know if it'd truly overheat, but I always start getting uncomfortable when I hear the fans kicking on high.
As to what you call hot vs what I call hot, I don't like the heat; never did. Anything above 80F is uncomfortable, 85+ is when I start sweating all over, and 90+ makes me just want to do nothing but
I honestly don't know how you can take 100+F weather, never could understand it.
But then, the first day you came up here and got a taste of our -10F, you'd be whining like a little baby, trying to bundle up in 50+lbs of clothes lol.
Meanwhile I'd be standing outside in shorts and a sleeveless saying "Problem?"
Edit: Oh, and a note about humidity: New Mexico and the like are usually Dry, right? 25% or less Humidity? 25% is considered *low* humidity around here. So that 100F with <25% humidity isn't all that much hotter than 90F with 35%+ humidity that we get around here. When the air is humid, your body's sweat mechanism doesn't cool you anywhere near as well as it should, so you feel hotter than you should.
Edited, Jun 6th 2011 7:17am by Lyrailis
I have a serious problem with the weather here in Rio.
It's winter (well, almost), you watch in the streets and everyone is wearing coats and it`s...20C outside. Lol.
When we get to the summer, it's normal to have 35C. It's just another day. We only really notice it when it gets past 40.
Blergh. Hate it.
Oh, and it`s really, really humid here. Like, today we have 64% air humidity and 20C.
Edited, Jun 6th 2011 11:17am by Brisin
It's winter (well, almost), you watch in the streets and everyone is wearing coats and it`s...20C outside. Lol.
When we get to the summer, it's normal to have 35C. It's just another day. We only really notice it when it gets past 40.
Blergh. Hate it.
Oh, and it`s really, really humid here. Like, today we have 64% air humidity and 20C.
Edited, Jun 6th 2011 11:17am by Brisin
I'm not a big fan of heat too. I can handle cold much better than I can handle heat. In the cold you can bundle up, blankets, more clothes, cuddle to stay warm. In the heat...well there are only so many clothes on my body I can take off before I have no more 
after that without cool air you're just kind of ******* Fans can help a bit, but they still just push warm air faster to make it feel a bit cooler.
My living situation is currently in an attic of a rather small house. My fiancees dad (omg I'm living with my fiancees parents! **** not being able to find a job) was in the military and apparently doesn't believe in AC and refuses to get one, so the rest of his family has to suffer for it. The attic of course has no attic fan so all the hot air from the house comes and gathers right in the attic. There is constantly pockets of still hot air. When it gets into the 80's it just gets miserable. We decided to take matters into our own hands and bought a portable AC (window AC wouldn't work because the windows were tiny since they were in an attic). So now whenever it gets unbearable we just turn that sucker on and cool off.
after that without cool air you're just kind of ******* Fans can help a bit, but they still just push warm air faster to make it feel a bit cooler. My living situation is currently in an attic of a rather small house. My fiancees dad (omg I'm living with my fiancees parents! **** not being able to find a job) was in the military and apparently doesn't believe in AC and refuses to get one, so the rest of his family has to suffer for it. The attic of course has no attic fan so all the hot air from the house comes and gathers right in the attic. There is constantly pockets of still hot air. When it gets into the 80's it just gets miserable. We decided to take matters into our own hands and bought a portable AC (window AC wouldn't work because the windows were tiny since they were in an attic). So now whenever it gets unbearable we just turn that sucker on and cool off.
Don't get me wrong, I much prefer the cold. I'm the guy that, on trips to the mountains, only takes one small sleeping cover, usually a thin thin sleeping bag, even when it's 0* out.
Also, this last winter hit temps of below 0 here, it was AWESOME.
I've just learned to deal with the heat is all.
Edit: Lyr, download CPUID and see what your temps are actually reaching. I bet when those fans kick on, that comp is cooler than you are. Also, the fans can kick on during a certain amount of load, as well as a certain temp.
Edited, Jun 6th 2011 11:49am by jaysgsl
Also, this last winter hit temps of below 0 here, it was AWESOME.
I've just learned to deal with the heat is all.
Edit: Lyr, download CPUID and see what your temps are actually reaching. I bet when those fans kick on, that comp is cooler than you are. Also, the fans can kick on during a certain amount of load, as well as a certain temp.
Edited, Jun 6th 2011 11:49am by jaysgsl
The only place I like the cold is from inside near a heat source.
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Me too. I don't do cold. Might not make logical sense, but I much prefer to be too hot than too cold.
Me too. I don't do cold. Might not make logical sense, but I much prefer to be too hot than too cold.
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The town of Southwest, PA had 83° weather today.
That's it?
Born and raised here in Texas. Try this on for size. And that's nothing. Wait until the summer really gets going.
Let's just say that a lack of air conditioning here in Texas is pretty much a cardinal sin.
Edited, Jun 6th 2011 12:13am by IDrownFish
That's it?
Born and raised here in Texas. Try this on for size. And that's nothing. Wait until the summer really gets going.
Let's just say that a lack of air conditioning here in Texas is pretty much a cardinal sin.
Edited, Jun 6th 2011 12:13am by IDrownFish
As a SW PA person myself I can tell you the humidity makes it horrible here.
I've been in the 100 degree+ Texas dry heat before an I prefer that to the 83 + high humidity we got today.
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IDrownFish wrote:
The town of Southwest, PA had 83° weather today.
That's it?
Born and raised here in Texas. Try this on for size. And that's nothing. Wait until the summer really gets going.
Let's just say that a lack of air conditioning here in Texas is pretty much a cardinal sin.
Edited, Jun 6th 2011 12:13am by IDrownFish
That's it?
Born and raised here in Texas. Try this on for size. And that's nothing. Wait until the summer really gets going.
Let's just say that a lack of air conditioning here in Texas is pretty much a cardinal sin.
Edited, Jun 6th 2011 12:13am by IDrownFish
As a SW PA person myself I can tell you the humidity makes it horrible here.
I've been in the 100 degree+ Texas dry heat before an I prefer that to the 83 + high humidity we got today.
Not saying it isn't hot, but dry heat might be warmer, but less miserable than a humid heat. You people in Texas, Arizona, New Mexico have it made.
People don't like to be meddled with. We tell them what to do, what to think, don't run, don't walk. We're in their homes and in their heads and we haven't the right. We're meddlesome. ~River Tam
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Mazra wrote:
It's 30 degrees Celsius here, which as hot as it gets around these parts. Woke up at 9 o'clock despite my room being on the shadow side.
I don't do well with heat. I much prefer the cold.
I don't do well with heat. I much prefer the cold.
And I love snow and ice.
Dry heat is much more manageable if you are just like sitting outside in the shade, but they both have their down sides.
Humid heat is just miserable because it causes you to pour sweat even when doing virtually nothing. Dry heat, can be dangerous when you are using a lot of energy. The heat will evaporate your sweat before it can really cool your body off causing you to overheat if you don't stay hydrated.
Both are pretty miserable when doing some sort of exercise. Dry heat would be a lot better for just sitting out in the shade somewhere.
Humid heat is just miserable because it causes you to pour sweat even when doing virtually nothing. Dry heat, can be dangerous when you are using a lot of energy. The heat will evaporate your sweat before it can really cool your body off causing you to overheat if you don't stay hydrated.
Both are pretty miserable when doing some sort of exercise. Dry heat would be a lot better for just sitting out in the shade somewhere.
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I live near where IDrownFish posted the link to, and today will be 99F with 46% humidity... It gets pretty nasty here. I had some friends visit from Wisconsin and they thought they were going to die, lol. Not complaining to much though, as I prefer to visit cold weather and not live in it. If I want to snow ski etc. I can drive to where the snow is.
Edit: I am originally from West Texas, and that is the climate I believe you are referring to. It could get up to 110F but little to no humidity. Just wanted to point out that your assumption is correct for certain parts of Texas.
Edited, Jun 7th 2011 10:38am by ChildeRoland
Edit: I am originally from West Texas, and that is the climate I believe you are referring to. It could get up to 110F but little to no humidity. Just wanted to point out that your assumption is correct for certain parts of Texas.
Edited, Jun 7th 2011 10:38am by ChildeRoland
Nevermind.
Edited, Jun 7th 2011 10:54am by Bigdaddyjug
Edited, Jun 7th 2011 10:54am by Bigdaddyjug
Right now, according to the weather site, it is 60F/15C with 82% humidity at my home. It's supposed to reach a high of 65F. This is a little cool for the Los Angeles coastal area but then our summer highs seldom go above 85F/30C. Inland it can get much hotter and cooler (depending on the season) but the ocean makes the coastal temperatures much milder most of the time.
When we do have really hot temperatures, it's because the wind is blowing air from the desert out to the ocean so the humidity (normally fairly high) drops a lot. This is good for those of us who dislike heat combined with humidity but it's bad for people who live in fire danger areas. The hot dry winds can make even a small loose fire into an expensive and deadly fire destroying acres of area before being controlled.
I don't have any AC at all at home. I've been seriously considering it but with only a few small heat waves a year, I just haven't felt miserable long enough to go out and talk to someone to get it installed. I just get by normally with an electric fan and open windows. I guess it also helps that I do work in an air-conditioned building so at times it's actually a bit of a relief to come in to work. Heheh
When we do have really hot temperatures, it's because the wind is blowing air from the desert out to the ocean so the humidity (normally fairly high) drops a lot. This is good for those of us who dislike heat combined with humidity but it's bad for people who live in fire danger areas. The hot dry winds can make even a small loose fire into an expensive and deadly fire destroying acres of area before being controlled.
I don't have any AC at all at home. I've been seriously considering it but with only a few small heat waves a year, I just haven't felt miserable long enough to go out and talk to someone to get it installed. I just get by normally with an electric fan and open windows. I guess it also helps that I do work in an air-conditioned building so at times it's actually a bit of a relief to come in to work. Heheh
80-90% humidity the last two days.
It's nasty.
It's nasty.
Please "talk up" if your comprehension white-shifts. I will use simple-happy language-words to help you understand.
56F with a light misty rain, again.
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You people and your crappy weather.
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All the people from Western PA who've posted here, turn that ac off, it's only 64F out there atm lol. It's been pouring for the last 3 hours, but still.
I'm a fan of the coolness. Heat is bad for me, so I tend to hibernate when it's past 80F. House with ac, to car with ac, to work with ac.
I'm a fan of the coolness. Heat is bad for me, so I tend to hibernate when it's past 80F. House with ac, to car with ac, to work with ac.
I would take 60's and high humidity over 90's and 50% humidity any day!
During the summer and monsoon seasons, the humidity in the Valley can hover around 20-40% depending on the day, along with the 100+ weather. I've spent time in Michigan and Florida, I know muggy. I'd still rather have 70* and 70% than 105* and 30%. Both are terrible, but, as I said, you learn to live with it.
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