It's too hot :(

Here's my portable AC extraction:

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andy_mk3 said:
I have a sheet of acrylic/perspex stuff that is attached to the window with velcro, which has a hole and a fitting for the extractor pipe, so the window is sealed and the air can escape.

Portable units are flawed by the fact that they extract air, so always draw in air from somewhere else. But they still do a good enough job. My bedroom yesterday was 28c when I got home. 9000BTU portable A/C kept it at 20c all night, plus the lower humidity makes it so much more comfortable.
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The perspex idea is genius. Might have a look tonight at our windows when I get home.
 
Kelt said:
I'm lucky I suppose, I can go to sleep easily regardless of how hot* or cold it is, and get a good nights sleep.

Makes all this talk of needing AC to help sleep slightly baffling to me, but I guess we're all different. :)

*Only exception to that was when on holiday in Kalymnos in the late eighties when Greece had a heateave on. A British woman died from it the week after we left the island.

It got to around 114F in the sun duriing the day and in the nineties at night.
I can still remember waking up in the middle of the night, straight onto autopilot to the fridge to down a pint of water.
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I have lived in several countries where it has been up to around 114, but what really helped in some were the "screens" on the windows and or doors, so you could open all the windows to allow for a cross draft.
 
Had crazy ideas of getting up early and going for a ride before infernogeddon started today, stirred at ~0500 and felt like death, not so much from sleep last night but from the night before. Alarm turned off and back into the land of nod I went...

Now ~27C in SO18 according to local Wunderground station, already 31C on several stations around Butser Hill southern base and 34C in Steep... With rain and thunderstorms allegedly in the vicinity according to Met Office. Ride not looking likely. :(
 
Hottest temperature so far has been recorded in Cambridge at 35c although a station in Harrow recorded 35.3 just.

If cloud cover stays away until 5ish we will see that record go but its going to be close as the radar shows cloud cover reaching the area around 4pm
 
Kelt said:
I'm lucky I suppose, I can go to sleep easily regardless of how hot* or cold it is, and get a good nights sleep.

Makes all this talk of needing AC to help sleep slightly baffling to me, but I guess we're all different. :)

*Only exception to that was when on holiday in Kalymnos in the late eighties when Greece had a heateave on. A British woman died from it the week after we left the island.

It got to around 114F in the sun duriing the day and in the nineties at night.
I can still remember waking up in the middle of the night, straight onto autopilot to the fridge to down a pint of water.
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I slept ok last night night, just had to shut the windows because of the noises I was hearing, I woke up at 4:30 as my alarm went off and I was sweating.

I would like an a/c unit for the day/evening not for sleeping lol
 
32 degrees in Manchestoh. Our office is probably 23 or so as we have air conditioning. Cycled 12 miles into work, blinded in the eye due to sweat so had to keep stopping to try my face. Gonna be a fun ride home at 8PM!
 
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