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lobster
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Whilst we have a heatwave in England, Europe and MANY other places...
- I have the Window (not Windows) open. Not too unpleasant through the night time cooling
- I occasionally improve and update my minimalist website
- Have moved the ioniser + fan above the skylight to suck and push up heated air
- Chased a lost red admiral to exit by the skylight
- Think I may have a cup of tea (the universal panacea)
Be Kewl. Be Buddhist. Bee Happy.
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I hear the Netherlands is in the grip of cooler air coming in from Poland, so we only have temps of around 24 Celsius. We have caught a lucky break, I’m not a fan of 30+ degree weather.
Well, it's about 15 C. here, colder in my den in the basement. Pity we can't split the difference. I need a new bathrobe - this one insulates poorly, maybe better if I washed it once in a while?
Dear Cool Friends,
We are in sort of Fall/Autumn AND summer. Bit colder at night. Pleasant sunny summer. It means I am wearing shorts for comfort but using a sleeping bag, mostly unzipped, at night. Due to my one Buddhist precept to sleep on a low bed, I sleep on a floor.
Hope everyone is keeping Tummo warm
Ah, we are in a cooling trend topping out the day with a mere 40 degrees celcius today.
40 degrees celcius is unbearable @Lionduck
But we have to. Hope you and family members are bearing up.
I have also been keeping this precept of late, one of the corners of my bed broke and now my matras is resident on the floor. Wonderful unintentional precept, the universe is obviously taking care of me…
@Lobster
40 degrees Celsius is unbearable...
It a has cooled off bit, but we may have as high as 46 degrees C to 48 degrees C. in some areas.
In the desert, Summer temps may hit or exceed 55 C
One Summer, during an exercise an exercise at the Marines Twenty-nine Palms, the air temp was over 56 degrees Celsius leaning a thermometer against the tent, we has the 62+ C. We couldn't get a reading from the thermometer on the ground as it maxed out at 68.75 C. And crews were working all day in those temps. Ground support for an Air Guard Wing.
Understand, the Marines do exercises on the regular in those temps.
and at night, a bucket of water froze over
Thanks for sharing guys.
Listened to this history of air conditioning the other day.
Its kind of amazing how much it has changed the way we live in ways we often don't even notice.
The original impetus for developing AC was for factories, it got too hot during the summer months. Maybe not so surprisingly the problem with it being too hot was that manufacturing processes didn't work right and products were ruined rather than it was a problem for the people who worked there.
Though what really brought it into common use was the comfort it provided to people. People started going to theaters and stores in the summer way more than ever and it eventually made its way into the home.
Remember that saying, "When you're hot you're hot: when you're no you're not."?
I am aware it was not referring to the temperature, but .....
AC is kind of an American thing, in Europe very few houses have air conditioning.
Interesting. Not totally familiar with the climate, but I don't think you have areas like the American south where its regularly above 40 during summer. I live pretty far north and make little use of the AC personally, I work outside during the summer and do my best to stay in the shade, or start at sunup and quit before noon on very hot, humid days (upper 30s C generally). I'll open the windows at night and close them back up in the morning. Most days that keeps things cool enough, I'll generally sit and sleep with a fan blowing at me. At the same time I'll notice other units in my buildings pretty much running it full time, even when its not that hot out.
Also, being used to the heat makes it seem less hot, if you're someone who works inside with AC all day, stepping out even into moderately warm temps feels hot. Meaning the more you use AC the more you'll feel the need to use it.
Spain, Greece and parts of Italy get pretty hot in the summer. Spain just had some long stretches above 40C this year.
Are they able to cope with the heat? Particularly the older people? For people without or who can't afford it they'll often open community centers or allow people to hang out in malls, etc. to help protect people. Maybe there are more local customs for getting relief from the heat?
When I lived in Arizona, it seemed odd to me that people would rave about the wonderful climate, yet spent most of their time in air conditioned cars and buildings, or else scampering from one to the other. I really liked the heat, the heat was my friend. In Alaska, I'm cold all the time, even in summer - except for the meager handful of days when the temp rises to somewhere near 21C. Had more of those days than usual this year, but not enough. I'm waiting for the day when the climate warms enough to allow reptiles, amphibians, and large showy insects - rather than all these pesky little gnats and mosquitos - to live and thrive here.
Some info to help keep people safe. Heat index matters for those in more humid areas.
https://tempest.earth/resources/how-hot-is-too-hot-to-be-outside/#:~:text=can be fatal.-,At What Temperature Is It Dangerous To Be Outside?,stay safe during extreme heat.
Finally the heat is dying out today! Goodbye 30+ temps!
I love this time of the year. For the next month or so the temps are pretty great. Not sure how the trees are around where you live, but here they change color in very pretty ways.
Here daily temps are dropping from the summery 22-25C to a cooler 18-19C and there are autumn rains coming. Nighttime it’s a fresh 11-14C and we already had the first ground frost. We also had a few early trees going golden and dropping their leaves.
Spring has sprung, but still a bit chilly especially first thing of a morning and evening.
Using my supersense (probably like spidersense - @Fosdick would approve) I change according to the season. In Summer I sleep on an eiderdown in Winter underneath. In Spring the windows are open in Autumn (Fall for the afflicted UST - United States of Trump) they close more. Passive heating and cooling. Air conditioners are a bit over priced here. Shops have them, the local library has ceiling fans. Cars have them. So I might get a premium 12 volt car air conditioner if I survive the day/winter/another season...
Smokin' ~ The Mask
In summer we sweat, in winter we shiver.
Like @lobster and @Jeroen, we sleep on the floor. The reason has little to do with the precepts, more to do with dogs. When we had 5 dogs, all of them slept on the bed and sometimes a dog would roll over and fall off the edge of the bed onto the floor, dragging all the blankets along with her. Sick and tired of having to remake the bed at 3 or 4 in the morning, we got rid of the bedframe and box springs, and put the mattress on the floor. No more problems. The tradition has persisted, despite being down to one dog who never falls off the bed but sleeps sprawled in the middle. I think if we had a bedframe, it would be us falling off the bed, not the dog. The Dharma works in mysterious ways.
Wow, @Fosdick, sleeping with 5 dogs on the bed… but I found the mattress on the floor to be very good for my back, it provides a solid kind of flatness which I like. And it reminds me a little of the Japanese habit of just a thin futon on the ground, which I have tried in the past but found a bit much of a good thing.
Many a true word (Shingon) spoken in Tantrums... eh Tantrics
Long Live the GoD-Dog! Hail Satin (Sheets)! 'Dharma and Dumber', soon available as a film?
...And now back to 'Some Like it Hot'
@person I need to explore! There is a forest behind the old medieval citadel-palace (Alhambra).