i hate this

[solarbird]

From wunderground:

Record Report
Statement as of 7:00 PM PDT on July 28, 2009

Record maximum temperatures for Tuesday July, 28th 2009
(location, new record, old record, old record date)

Sea-tac 97-tied 97 1998
Olympia 101 100 1998
Hoquiam 93 81 1965
Bellingham 90 88 1958
Seattle WFO (sandpoint) 95 92 1998

Record high minimum temperatures
Sea-tac 69* 65 1998
Olympia 63 62 1958
Quillayute (forks) 59-tied 59 2000
Bellingham 63-tied 63 1958

*ties all-time high minimum temperature set 9/2/1974

I'm not joking about how much I hate this. The high up here outside murkworks north was fuck I dunno. The high for Kenmore was 97.mutter F. The high in the server room so far is 30.3 (um... 87F) at the edge of operating temperature and that's been a lot of work staying online. It's cooler in the rest of the house but it still sucks.

I hate this not just because it's fucking uncomfortable. I hate it because it shuts me the fuck down. I want to do stuff but I just can't. Sometimes I fall asleep, like yesterday. I feel like I can't breathe (tho' I can rly - it's not even difficult, it's just a feeling that you can't) and I get depressed and then the inability to get anything done makes me more depressed. I have my shiny moved studio all together and I'm making decent recordings in it (at last) and then this happens and I can't even use it because I can't turn off the exhaust fans for even a little while or the house temperature will start soaring up to outside or above, and the servers will crash and possibly burn themselves out (like one has done before), and even if we didn't have the servers (and didn't have murkworks.net) it'd still be too fucking hot for me to think.

i hate this so much

Comments

[mojave-wolf.livejournal.com]

it'd still be too fucking hot for me to think.

i hate this so much

Muchest sympathy and understanding and identifying-empathy.

[kallisti.livejournal.com]

To quickly convert Celsius to F, double it and add 32...so 30 C is approxy 92 F!

Here in Ottawa, Ontario, we have had so much rain this month, we have broken records! I'm supposed to go camping this weekend...but I wonder if I should bring and inflatable boat along...

Next weekend, it's Worldcon just up the road in Montreal...at least I will have an A/C room to sleep in.

I admit, I treat my servers for kallisti.homeunix.net better than I do..their room, aka my work room is A/Ced, but not my bedroom...sometimes, like tonight, when it's 26C and 98% Humdity, I sleep on the chesterfield that turns into a futon bed.

Good Luck, I'll trade you the my rain for the heat, though!

ttyl

[firni.livejournal.com]

I'll trade the heat for the rain... it's all yours.

[lisa-marli.livejournal.com]

My daughter lives in Half Moon Bay, much like Seattle it rarely needs a/c. She installed One Window a/c unit to keep one room bearable when things get over hot. Which for her is about 80F. Yeah, coasters are wimps, all of you. :)
It just might be your answer as well. Get a portable that vents to the outside if a window unit isn't feasible. They cost more, but they do help.
Since I live in even warmer San Jose, we have three window a/c units. We judge how hot the day was by how many window units we needed to run to keep the house comfortable. You people are in the the three unit temperature range.
May Seattle soon return to it's usual foggy cold goodness.
PS Our high was 74, should be more like 84. This weather is Really Weird!

[denelian.livejournal.com]

i m from Northern CA, so i am used to it being 120F outside. but A) that is "dry" heat and B) everyplace in Northern CA is ACed to 68F inside...

now i live in Ohio - where it's 90, but dear F'ing GODS the humidity.

is it humid or dry? because i have some (non-AC-unit) suggestions...

if its dry heat: leave LARGE pots of water around, especially in front of open windows and/or fans. this helps a surprising amount, if it isn't humid.

if it *IS* humid, well...
the two main things are fans and a de-humidifyer (i have no clue how much those are anymore - i got one for $30 bucks when i moved to Ohio 12 years ago.) if i remember right, certain forms of ionization can be used, but its been years since i took any classes that dealt with this area, and that's essentially what a de-humidifyer will do.

sadly, neither of these will help with the servers - the only thing that will help *there* is an actual decrease in the temp. :(
the stuff i suggested (what little of it...) is only really going to help the flesh-and-blood inhabitants of Murk.

(i shall pray for a speedy return to your normal weather. well sacrifice a goat :D )

[doragoon.livejournal.com]

To quickly convert from Celsius to Fahrenheit (or any other conversion you need) i do a google search for the number C in F. so typing in "30c in f" yealds the answer "30 degrees Celsius = 86 degrees Fahrenheit"

Sorry, but while we have these wonderfully usefull tools infront of us, it's possible to be both quick and accurate.

[anfalicious.livejournal.com]

We had three days in January of 48 (118) (one night the minimum was 33/91). The wind was so hot it burnt. I know it's all relative, we're used to 40 degree days, so I feel your heat wave pain.

[anfalicious.livejournal.com]

I'd trade anything for rain. I remember rain, they had that when I was a kid...

[llachglin.livejournal.com]

It's been humid by our standards. Yesterday the humidity peaked at 76% with a 67 degree dew point.

[westrider.livejournal.com]

Ugh. Not what I wanted to read while getting ready to go work in a goddamn Bakery. I hate summers, sometimes.

[annathepiper]

Sorry, but while we have these wonderfully usefull tools infront of us, it's possible to be both quick and accurate.

This assumes one can muster up enough giveadamn to actually do the conversions in Google (Dara and I knew about this a while back, I assure you). Mustering the giveadamn is awfully hard in this heat. :(

[pstratt.livejournal.com]

111 in Kirkland, 107 near Kenmore/Lake Forest Park.

http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/mesowest/mwmap.php?wfo=sew&map=seattle&list=1&sort=name

[denelian.livejournal.com]

humidity is the thing its really REALLY hard to combat - i swear, from experience, that 110 in Northern CA is *BETTER* than 80 in Alabama - because the lack of humidity.

on the other hand, with humidity, humidity makes fans more effective (for people).

i hope your heatwave ends soon, though - if you aren't used to heat, 80 degrees will drop you flat in no time at all (as i am sure everyone out there is experiencing). if it stay hot, but the humidity drops to 60% or lower, try the bog bowls of water. if it doesn't drop, all you can do is fans, or dehumidifyers if you can afford them...

[janne.livejournal.com]

You know it's hot when even norwegian news broadcasts repeatedly mention the temperature in Seattle, with images of people clustering around fans...

Meanwhile, my stay-at-home vacation in Oslo has records amount of wind and rain and total absence of heat (high today, 16C). I wish they'd invent transporters sometime soon for a quick change of climate!

I can certainly understand..

[(Anonymous)]

I don't deal with heat all that well, and never have. To make it even more fun, where I work isn't air conditioned,and 90 F. outside translates to 105(or so)inside,even with multiple exhaust fans. Here(Kentucky),July has been running a few degrees cooler than normal(but still quite humid). Heat and high humidity does make it seem harder to breathe,for whatever reason.
I have no regrets about the 4 kilobucks I just spent on a new central air unit..