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Temp inside your place?

Probably about 20°C but we've got the fire on, it's below 0°C outside still at 10:20am up here at my folks' place - it's a chilly winter's morning and we could get some snow later if the humidity goes up as the clouds come in.

Just made myself a nice cappuccino and am parked on the couch in front of the fire watching TV.

I love winter!
 
Well today was a shocker, left for work at 7 this morning, it was around 25ºC, get to work and it's 21ºC. Then I worked in the lab the whole day with my lab coat, sweater and nomex gloves on-it was about 6ºC. Then I proceeded to leave work early at 2pm and it was 47ºC or 117ºF outside! I just about twitched! Curse this heatwave!
 
We've been keeping it cooler, about 76F at our house since my wife is pregnant. Normally I'd have it about 78-80, since the A/C removes humidity, it's not so bad.

However, I'm not at my house, I'm at a hotel in Pennsylvania, and I have it about 80 in here, based on my travel clock.
 
I have the air set to 79F in the summer and the heat set to 64F in the winter.
 
Warning to many of you - turning off the A/C at night during a heat wave may seem harmless since it cools down at night, but it sucks. I don't think that will be happening again...
 
nbs2 said:
Warning to many of you - turning off the A/C at night during a heat wave may seem harmless since it cools down at night, but it sucks. I don't think that will be happening again...
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Wait, so what happened? Did it seize when you turned it back on? I turn my AC off during the day (when I'm gone) all the time. I had a failure in my previous apartment once after two years of occupancy. And this is Florida, where the AC is an 8 or 9 mos out of the year thing....

Or is it just that it's taking a long time to cool back down today?
 
mkrishnan said:
Wait, so what happened?
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my guess is that it was still miserably hot. i need it cool to fall asleep, and as long as i don't wake up during the night i don't mind if it's a bit warm, but otherwise it can be hard to get back to sleep.

my house is generally comfortable enough, especially if you're near one of the vents. the office/studio/computer room is very warm though, of course (2 g5's, 4 displays, a bunch of hard drives, etc).

at work, it's spotty. in some places it's hot, some it's cold. the office i'm in now is cool so i have a sweater on. my boss asked me why i had a sweater on yesterday, like i was crazy. hah
 
jelloshotsrule said:
my guess is that it was still miserably hot. i need it cool to fall asleep, and as long as i don't wake up during the night i don't mind if it's a bit warm, but otherwise it can be hard to get back to sleep.
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that's it. i should have been clear that nothing significantly bad happened. but, i had a hard time getting to sleep as i felt the heat slowly building (but i was still too lazy to get out of bed). lori ended up getting hot and waking up at about 3. she turned the a/c on when the temp in the house was 85. since vent is pretty close to our bed, i don't think she hard too hard a time getting back to sleep.
 
Air conditioners aren't magical, remember - the central air in my house (built in the early 50's) can only bring the temperature down about 15 degrees F below the outside ambient temperature, and that would be if it was constantly running, which strains our already overtaxed power grid. With the outside ambient temp at about 90F here in Cleveland, we have the temp set to 82F and I've gotten used to it - it feels cooler because of the low humidity.

I'd say that 72F on a 100F day is asking a lot of an air conditioning unit.

On a side note, the flashed GeForce 6800GT in my G4 tower is not happy in this weather - with the indoor temperature at 82F the GPU was reaching 86C when running games and started crashing. I bought a PCI slot fan which dropped the temp about 10C but I've had to stop gaming or I may fry something...unless I get silly and buy a liquid cooling system (not) I think the G4 tower may be parked for a few days.
 
It's 98 here with a heat index of 105 and it's a hair over 80 in my apartment. The local electric monoply can have my money just keep my ac running. 10+ days of non stop use and counting. :eek:
 
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