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*Cries in tropical weather*
Even when it rains, it can still be over 30 degrees. Life is pain.
Winter is about to arrive down here. It’s dry season, with “cold” (18-22º C) nights and scorching hot (29º+) days. Oh, and there’s a fuckton of heatwaves that might come around, which are totally not caused by excessive pollution and CO2 emission!
I feel you, man. I live by the coast. I’ll be lucky if my neighborhood doesn’t join Atlantis in the next decade.
I would hardly run the AC if the hottest it got in summertime in Oklahoma City was 90°F. But last year, we had several instances where it got up to 100 or 105. And the dew point was 70-75 degrees all summer. So your sweat hardly evaporates. I run my AC all day to keep it 80 degrees and swampy indoors.
I would love to redo my whole house’s HVAC system where one smallish central unit cools the kitchen and living room and each of the bedrooms have their own ductless mini split. This is one way to achieve zoning. There’s no reason to cool the entire house to 65 degrees if I’m about to be asleep in the bedroom for the next 8 hours. There’s no reason to try to keep the whole house cool when I’m about to spend my day in my home office. Just cool the room I’m in and leave the rest alone.
I could also do window units, but for some reason, my wife is vehemently opposed to them. Her parents just put window units in all their bedrooms and one in their living room. They don’t use the central unit anymore. They only cool the room they’re in right now, and their power bills went from $400 to $150 in summer. They paid for themselves in one season.
Window units are loud AF.
Running a dehumidifier has been the best thing I’ve ever done though. I believe I’m from a more humid environment though.
Closing vents and doors helps.
You shouldn’t. Blocking vents is bad for your blower motor as your constricting the system and putting unwanted wear on the blower motor.
You can do it. But you may end up damaging your hvac system and wearing out some parts much faster then normal.
I have two types of vents:
- floor vents - to send central heat to all the rooms
- Ceiling vents - to send inside air outside
I can’t see any problem with closing one of those types of vent
Again you’re constraining your blower motor by doing so. It’s added wear and tear. It won’t break over night but you will require repairs faster then if you didn’t touch the vents.
Do want you want. It’s your property. But this is similar to someone constantly leaning on their breaks when they are driving.
I think you misread my comment. I wasn’t talking about closing vents attached to a blower
What other vents could you possibly be talking about if not hvac vents?
I’m more of a Spring/Fall enjoyer, but I like winter too. Summer I just turn on a bunch of fans because AC is expensive AF and has a chonky carbon footprint
Another reason would be you can’t use heavier blankets in summer
I quickly acclimate to either, but it’s not fun. Low 50f/10C is very comfortable to me by late January while 90f/32C is fine in July. It’s the damn December and May that are hell.
10°C is fine in sunlight or still air. If there’s a breeze it is cold. Great cycling weather though, you can dump so much heat and barely need gloves
in exchange for almost never running it during the day: i turn my A/C down to like 68 F overnight and sleep like a baby.
Use anything but Fahrenheit, please!
527 °R
What spawn of Satan is R? I wish I never learned of this eldritch horror.
Freedom™ Kelvin 🦅
Ok I guess I asked for it
lol no, that’s the most american thing about me and i refuse.
i literally use metric for everything else in my day job and overall life; but for temperature, Fahrenheit makes more sense to me. 100 F? deadly. 70 F? great. 50 F? chilly. 0 F? deadly.
You expect us to not notice how you skipped over the entire 0-50 range there? “It’s just better for everyday temps” my ass.
Also 100F is not deadly if you got water and aren’t working hard, and neither is 0F if you got appropriate clothing.
And don’t get me started on how y’all pretend that measuring temperature has to be on this stupid ass scale “because it goes to a hundred where I live” but then y’all count your school grades (which are entieely made up and would cost literally nothing to change) to 3.8 or whatever the fuck.
sorry i live a happy well-rounded life and don’t know what any of this means.
The 4.0 grading scale is that much of a trigger for you? A,b,c,d,f->4,3,2,1,0 then average them.
This. Fahrenheit is by far the better temperature scale for talking about environmental temps
Lol it’s not, it’s just what you are used to
0-100F is a base 10 scale that has inherent advantages. It’s not just “what you’re used to” any more than you get used to base 10 anything, including all of the metric system. (Which should be redesigned around base 12, but that’s a whole different rant).
Beyond that, I find that 1 degree Celsius is too wide of a measurement for a lot of things, especially in the kitchen. My sous vide steaks get cooked at 130F, and that tends to be +/- 1F with the accuracy of the sous vide. If I said it’s at 54C +/- 1C, that’s not quite right. 54C is closer to 129F, so it’s almost outside the accuracy range already. Plus, that 1C of accuracy covers 2.2F, so the finish temperature could be anywhere from 126.8F to 132.2F. Way outside the range, the steak does come out different at those temperatures, and the lower end of that is potentially unsafe (though that’s a complicated topic, as well).
But then if I say 54.4C +/- 0.45C, now I have to use more numbers (since numbers with zeros at the end, as in the F example, are easier to remember) with more decimal places to get to the same thing. Dropping down to milligrade or whatever is now using a prefix that’s uncommon with this unit of measurement.
But then, I also want to use grams to measure everything out in the kitchen. Ounces and cups are crude for no real advantage.
Metric’s ability to convert between units easily isn’t particularly useful in the kitchen. Unless you’re doing some molecular gastronomy shit, that is.
Purity is not a virtue. Being able to use different measurement systems in different contexts is an advantage.
If it had advantages over being what one was used to, it would be more popular. It’s not, so it couldn’t be.
0-100F is not base 10 at all, it’s just what you grew up with. I grew with Celsius and I can easily feel the difference in a few degrees. TV weather people saying that the temp will be in the 80s is less useful to me than if they tell me if it will be 27°C for example
Why would you do ±1°C if the sous vide can do decimals?
Also, the recipe calls for 130°F because it was made by an American, if you look for European recipes it will probably say 54°C. Neither will add decimals to their recipes because that’s just being anal
I use F in the kitchen a lot because most of my appliances work in that and also because I basically learn to cook until I moved to the US, so again, what you are used to
0-100F is not base 10 at all,
Umm, yes, it is. Zero and a hundred, and convention is to break up temperatures like “it’s in the forties”. It’s all base 10.
TV weather people saying that the temp will be in the 80s is less useful to me than if they tell me if it will be 27°C for example
Is it going to be 27C all day long? Is it going to be between 80 and 90 all day long? One is more likely than the other, and even if it’s 78 in the morning, that’s fine, doesn’t make much difference.
Here, C is overly precise for the task.
Why would you do ±1°C if the sous vide can do decimals?
Because 130, a number with a zero at the end of it, is easier to deal with than 54.4.
This has an effect on UI, as well. Two buttons for going up or down. With F, you can do that in 1 or 0.5 degree increments. In C, it’d have to be 0.1, and you’re pressing it more to get to where you want.
Also, the recipe calls for 130°F because it was made by an American, if you look for European recipes it will probably say 54°C.
Which will be wrong. Steak turns out differently with slight changes in temperature around this level. European recipes will have to go to 54.4C.
Neither will add decimals to their recipes because that’s just being anal
No, it’s using sous vide properly. Precision is why you do it.
TV weather people saying that the temp will be in the 80s is less useful to me than if they tell me if it will be 27°C for example
Well this isn’t really an accurate comparison. If they know an exact temperature, they would say it in both measurements. But they don’t. So “in the 80s” is the perfect range. Preparing for 80 degrees is almost identical to how you would prepare for 89 degrees. There’s no metric equivalent. The “20s” is way too big of a range. 20 vs 29 is a huge difference. Also, with it being base 10, you don’t really need more information. 80 is 80% hot. Think of the hottest weather you’ve been in. 80 degrees is about 80% of that. And before you say “I’ve been in 115 degree weather”. Yeah, so have I, I lived in arizona, and 115 is honestly not too much different than 100. After 100 it doesn’t matter much. Same with below 0. But the 0-100 range, each degree matters quite a bit
F makes it easy to describe how people feel, C describes how water feels.
i like this
Ppl acting like it’s winter or summer when autumn and spring are right there
Here in MN we even get several Springs. I think we got 5 this year.
Spring is the worst fucking season weather wise. It’s perpetually wet and rainy, and the temperature is erratic. In the past 3 weeks it has been 55, 75, then 30, and now we are up to 80 in my part of Ohio. You cant accommodate for it, you cant plan anything outside, and my allergies go absolutely bananas. Summer is consitent, and the fall never really has wild weather changes, just a steady cooling down.
Apparently you don’t live in Scotland (west coast at least). Spring may not be warm, but we get some clear dry days, and if you’re in the sun and out of the wind you can feel the heat. By summer it’s so muggy and humid that 15 degrees (Celsius) feels oppressive. I used to live in Australia but the (not-)heat here feels worse.
Nah man, rain is beautiful. It sounds amazing, makes everything look amazing, and makes the world look so much more vibrant afterwards.
If it rained two or three times a week until the end of time I’d be the happiest man alive.
Rain is fine, but we have been getting floods and everything was muddy. A light sprinkling is lovely. Thunderstorms are great to sleep through. But heavy rain all week is lousy.
Those only last like 2 weeks around here.
This is a silly thing to argue over because we don’t get to pick seasons and have to live through the one currently on.
Maybe you don’t
If you can’t pick seasons you just need to pick yourself up by the bootstraps. No reason anybody can’t pick seasons.
You can however move to a hotter/colder climate. You don’t need to suffer the climate you don’t enjoy if you’re willing to suffer the consequence
man i wish it was summer already
I’m most cozy at an air temp of like 30°C :( It barely ever gets this hot here in Germany
I just want to wear as simple an outfit as I can and get away with it without freezing, ok?
Have you considered living in the tropics?
Have you considered Deez Nuts?
It really depends on where you are. There are places where summer is the same temperature as some other place’s winter.
Also, I hate the fact that in winter you have to stay inside all the time, there’s no sun and everything is cold and sad. Spring and Summer are the times of the year when you travel, go out, enjoy nature and make memories.
And if you have a decently insulated home or AC, you can sleep great.
come to sweden, where the winters make people kill themselves and the summers are actually a fairytale wonderland.
I am happy sitting alone on my computer. Sweden sounds amazing.
bug repellent, my beloved
Makes sex worse.
You didn’t want to mate with that mantis anyway, trust me, bro. I’ve got your back.
I hate the heat so much.
You’re not going to like the future then
That seems to be true on many subjects these days…
I know 🥲
Autumn’s really where it is at. Best season.
