It ain't no good if you're in the jungle.

[andrewducker]

Right now (7:30am) it is 14 degrees outside.

It is 24 degrees in our bedroom, despite the windows being open all night. Humidity is 92%.

This afternoon it will rise to 26 degrees. I'm glad the office has air conditioning. I'm not looking forward to tonight.

Comments

[mountainkiss]

Why is it so hot in your bedroom despite the windows being open all night?

[andrewducker]

Hardly any wind and the curtains had to be shut to keep the light from coming in at 4am, so while there was a little bit of temperature reduction there wasn't very much at all.

Also, British homes tend to be built around keeping heat in, and Scottish ones apparently particularly so. So the house kept to a reasonable temperature in the winter fairly easily/cheaply, but in the summer it gets quite toasty.

Also, hi! I was just thinking a couple of days ago that it was ages since I'd heard from you!

[darkoshi]

Do you have electric (table or standing) fans or do they not sell those in Scotland?
Some are designed to fit in windows to help pull air in & out. But the non-window oscillating ones which provide a breeze inside the house can make it feel cooler too.

[marymac]

Not a breath of wind either. I have every blind shut and you still feel the heat at the windows.

The shift to heat waves early in summer is an absolute menace this far north.

[andrewducker]

If it was like this for more than about 5 days a year I'd be tempted.

[andrewducker]

It is.

[channelpenguin]

My old German farmhouse stays no warmer than 21 in summer and no cooler than 16 in winter (with ultra minimal heating in the ẃinter. All rads on as low as they can go). All on ground level, huge roof and a 30cm minimum thick clay floor/ceiling between them. it is on dirt (wooden floors raised about it a bit on joists), so in the dry winter, the house dries out, in the damper summers, I guess the evaporating water makes for some cooling? Though it is very dry int erms of no rain, it does tend to be a bit humid. I sleep in a SE facing room but keep curtains shut in the day if it it really hot (can get into the 30s)

[juan_gandhi]

Wait, how is it possible? You have your windows open. If it's 24 degrees with humidity 92%, it will be above dew point. More than 100% at 14 degrees. If you have 100% humidity at 14, you will have 54% at 24 - see https://grok.com/chat/3e9d88f2-d30b-48b6-a9b5-7cdbc5b84960

[andrewducker]

I would not trust anything an AI says.

(And that link doesn't work for people that aren't you.)

But the solution is pretty simple. The humidity was 92% outside. And so would be less inside, where it's warmer. (I'm getting the humidity from my weather app, not a humidity sensor, which I don't own.)

[mountainkiss]

I'm finding this tough. Opening the windows wide last thing is helping, and then I can keep the fans on and they've actually got some cold air to swirl around. Getting up early, incarcerating the kits and then throwing open the door and windows is also good. But it's a tough gig. I think there are ways of doing this that I don't know.

[andrewducker]

I'm sorry. It is hard, and you definitely have it harder than we do, it's a few degrees warmer with you than it is with us.

Thankfully last night it was down to 21 degrees in the bedroom, and so we could close the windows and not be woken at 4am by fighting gulls.

I'm not convinced there is much that can be done about this, other than full-on air-conditioning systems, as many warmer countries make use of. If things keep going this way then I suspect that these will start to become popular in at least the South of the UK.