Hot weather theory

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The humidity in summer is the worst. It's like being trapped and lowly suffocated under a thick, damp wool blanket. My AC isn't a luxury in the summer, it's a necessity. But it only cools the living room so I have electric fans in my computer room and bedroom.

If there was such a thing as Electric Fan Death, like they believe there is in South Korea, I would have died a long time ago.

Actually, for me it's the heat *and* the humidity. When you live on the upper floors of a building it's even worse because of the way heat rises. Sometimes I wish I lived in a basement apartment.

This is a fact for me.
Where I live, it can be 80 degrees and I'll feel miserable because of the humidity. But when I visited Arizona, it was in the 110's and I felt just fine.

I have a theory that heat makes people more violent and aggressive. I've noticed that most countries in the world where there is a lot of violence, killing, fighting, and general unrest have really hot climates. The people there need to chill - literally.

The two together definitely up the misery factor. I have heard of people running marathons and playing tennis in hot, humid weather. People must have to be strong and supremely conditioned to withstand that.

If you have never lived anywhere with extreme heat, I can’t imagine what it’s like. I have lived in a place where it gets hot, but not well over 100 hot. I don’t even want to think about it—95 is bad enough.

Story (LINK) 'Reverse Seasonal Affective Disorder: SAD in the Summer.'

LINK: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog ... the-summer

^^^i useta have that until i got a/c

The "be careful what you wish for - you might just get it" wisdom applies to those who wanted to go to Europe this Summer. Europe is experiencing a record heat-wave.

Wow!

Living within a few miles of the cool Pacific Ocean, we usually avoid heat (yet, more and more of people near the coast are considering air-conditioning (at least an A/C unit that would cool one-room)

During those rare (yet over the last few years, increasingly less rare) we've experienced more hot days. A couple of times with humidity, and even a couple of freak storms bringing soaking rains (almost unheard here of during the Summer. As a last resort, during the worst record heat, we periodically, take time to sit in our cars with well-maintained A/C. - as sometimes, ceiling-fans alone don't suffice.

With the late-Summer, and early Autumn coming, we can experience the hottest-days of the year - heat in quite a few different variations some humidity, occasionally with very humid with freak rain-showers. The dry offshore-flow brings dry-heat, sometimes the coast is warmer than the inland regions. The dry heat is most uncomfortable, as teh most humid conditions often brings cloud-cover from the South/East that blocks-out the direct sun.

In short, we basically become accustomed to were-ever we live. Yet, with global climate change, we might just have to learn from our nearby inland neighbors more accustomed to the heat.

i think it'd be a good idea to insulate better, take advantage of earth mass, use cooling towers and ground-sourced heat chimneys.