# Air Conditioner turned on **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 2, 2018, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/air-conditioner-turned-on/813466 "2018-05-02T15:29:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2018, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/air-conditioner-turned-on/813466/21 "2018-05-02T20:37:37Z")
We _would_ have our swamp cooler turned on, but we can’t find anybody who will do the job to get it ready for the summer. One company wanted $800. We used to have a handyman who did it, but he’s out of the business. ---
**Author:** ![FinsToTheLeft](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finstotheleft/32/2930_2.png) [@FinsToTheLeft](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinsToTheLeft)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2018, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/air-conditioner-turned-on/813466/22 "2018-05-02T21:24:49Z")
Toronto hit 83 today. On Sunday morning, I woke up to snow on my deck. I’m not complaining about the heat quite yet! ---
**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2018, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/air-conditioner-turned-on/813466/23 "2018-05-02T21:37:05Z")
Nope, 81 here and humid as Midwestern fuck, but I’m pushing for June like I usually do. What I DID do is finish wiring my whole house fan with the new digital controls I’ve been meaning to finish all spring. It just hasn’t gotten warm enough until today that I needed it. Storm front headed this way, as soon as the cold line hits fan goes on and I sleep comfy. ---
**Author:** ![MeanJoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanjoe/32/5693_2.png) [@MeanJoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanJoe)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2018, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/air-conditioner-turned-on/813466/24 "2018-05-03T00:03:04Z")
Ohio and it is 80 outside at 8PM. I’m sitting here slightly perspiring and debating if I should turn it on now or not. Part me just wants to open the windows for the night but it may rain later and I don’t want to deal with having to close them in the middle of the night. What to do, what to do…? ---
**Author:** ![Bayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bayaker/32/3454_2.png) [@Bayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bayaker)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2018, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/air-conditioner-turned-on/813466/25 "2018-05-03T01:32:13Z")
The AC came on today when it was about 85 and humid, but the first time this year was around the end of March - that’s not unusual in southeast Texas, but the fact that it has only been on a few times since then shows how cool(even cold for me) this Spring has been. We’ve had lows in the upper forties! In April! I’m threatening my SO with a move to Costa Rica. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2018, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/air-conditioner-turned-on/813466/26 "2018-05-03T01:52:06Z")
Here in the Philippines, the overnight low rarely goes down to 77, at any time of the year. We have AC installed in our house, but have not yet turned it on, in nine months. I’m not even sure it works. Fans work just fine. As I write, 9:40 am, there is a shower, 85, the overnight low 79, yesterday’s high 90. It is rare for any day to be more than a few degrees off that. The dewpoint is usually 75-77, which is uncomfortable at any temperature, but it’s fine in fan, breeze and shade. I hear birds singing outside the open window next to me. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2018, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/air-conditioner-turned-on/813466/27 "2018-05-03T06:22:51Z")
While I did share the current outside temp (inside it was 83), I turned it on because of the sweat running into my eyes. Before that, I was trying to hold out until the temps would stabilize, as plugging up the air conditioner again is a bit of a hassle. (I have to unplug the a heater, and the chords aren’t easy access.) But 77 while I was cooking was just too much, so I finally gave in. I actually can’t remember if it’s early or late. I do know that we normally don’t have so much instability. It was weird having highs in the 70s then in the 40s the next day. I think it might have seemed like it was later because there were so many hotter days that aren’t normal. What I find really weird is how environmental heat feel so much hotter than when I use a heater. I’ve gotten up to 80 with space heaters without realizing it, and it felt good. But get it that hot naturally, and it feel sweltering. Surely Northern Arkansas doesn’t have that bad a problem with humidity. We’re up a mountain. ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2018, 9:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/air-conditioner-turned-on/813466/28 "2018-05-03T09:05:14Z")
Here is a funny thing. In the winter I have an extra comforter on the bed, and I sleep in warm jammies. It’s almost like I don’t have central heating. But I do. And the temperature in the bedroom, even when we’ve got the thermostat turned down, is never lower than 60F, and rarely that low. (Unlike a previous house where there were mornings when you could see your breath in our bedroom, brrr!) In the summer, I take off the comforter and sleep in a short-sleeved silk t-shirt thing. And yet, in the summer, it is very rare for the temperature in the bedroom to be over 70F at night. Usually lower. There are the one or two occasions when it’s warmer, and I love that because I don’t have to sleep under covers, or at least not until 3 or 4 in the morning, when it does get cold (for me). This is a difference of usually, at most, 10 degrees between winter and summer, and yet it seems perfectly normal to put the comforter on when it’s cold outside, even though inside it’s always not much colder than it is in the summertime. I suppose there’s always the chance that a snowstorm would knock out the electricity and we’d have to huddle together for warmth under the comforter, but I’m huddling under it when it’s 63F. Oh, well, but you asked about AC. I turn it on never. I don’t have AC. I do have a swamp cooler sitting on the roof. It’s been there the whole 10 years I’ve lived here and I’ve never once turned it on or even been tempted. Supposedly it lowers the temp inside the house to up to 15F, but the house already stays cool enough (in the extremely unlike event that it’s 95 outside, it might be 80 inside), so I see no point. I don’t think I’ve ever wanted my house to be 15 degrees cooler than whatever it is. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2018, 9:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/air-conditioner-turned-on/813466/29 "2018-05-03T09:09:37Z")
Teruel will be happy to take some of your extra heat: they were below freezing on the night of the 1st. ---
**Author:** ![kanicbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f8ce5/32.png) [@kanicbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kanicbird)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2018, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/air-conditioner-turned-on/813466/30 "2018-05-03T12:07:22Z")
A/C on yesterday, hit 90F. One year the first day of spring it went on, this year was close, but jsut cool enough and a cold front was coming. I love a/c season. ---
**Author:** ![DummyGladHands](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/49beb7/32.png) [@DummyGladHands](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DummyGladHands)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2018, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/air-conditioner-turned-on/813466/31 "2018-05-03T12:44:09Z")
Still running the swamp and loving it!! ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2018, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/air-conditioner-turned-on/813466/32 "2018-05-03T12:50:28Z")
So far I’ve been able to avoid the A/C here in N. Alabama, but it hit 80F yesterday and is supposed to be hotter the rest of the week, so the temptation is there, but given I live alone and my dressage tends to be…skimpy…I’ll try to resist it and use the overhead fans for awhile. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2018, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/air-conditioner-turned-on/813466/33 "2018-05-03T12:52:45Z")
Last night it was a couple of degrees short of triggering the Nest to kick on the A/C, but I did flip on the ceiling fans for the first time this year. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2018, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/air-conditioner-turned-on/813466/34 "2018-05-03T13:37:54Z")
Well, I popped it on yesterday. It was actually nominally cooler than the day before but we had storms blowing through so windows were closed and then it was humid. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2018, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/air-conditioner-turned-on/813466/35 "2018-05-03T13:50:41Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > We _would_ have our swamp cooler turned on, but we can’t find anybody who will do the job to get it ready for the summer. One company wanted $800. We used to have a handyman who did it, but he’s out of the business. Have you tried searching YouTube for a video tutorial on doing it yourself? ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2018, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/air-conditioner-turned-on/813466/36 "2018-05-03T14:01:38Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > Let be known that, on the Second of May in the Year of Our Lord 2018 and at the temperature of 77 degrees Fahrenheit (25[sup]o[/sup]C), I, **BigT** , have turned on my air conditioner for the first time this year. Oh, boo. April 3rd for us, about three weeks early, and that’s with the setting at 84. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2018, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/air-conditioner-turned-on/813466/37 "2018-05-03T15:27:03Z")
Like **Barbarian** , I’m still celebrating the melting of the Last Patch of Ice. However, I did put our window fan in the window the other day, as our bedroom gets stuffy at night. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2018, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/air-conditioner-turned-on/813466/38 "2018-05-03T15:43:26Z")
Same day (11pm-ish, May 2) and the same 77 temp. Usually I don’t mind upper 70s but the humidity was pretty bad here last night. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2018, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/air-conditioner-turned-on/813466/39 "2018-05-03T17:56:01Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Have you tried searching YouTube for a video tutorial on doing it yourself? It would require climbing up on the roof. Not gonna do that. ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2018, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/air-conditioner-turned-on/813466/40 "2018-05-03T18:06:49Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > Let be known that, on the Second of May in the Year of Our Lord 2018 and at the temperature of 77 degrees Fahrenheit (25[sup]o[/sup]C), I, **BigT** , have turned on my air conditioner for the first time this year. > > What about the rest of you? When have you turned it on, and what temperature? > > (Also, note, I’m baking a pizza, which made it hotter.) Haven’t turned it on as yet…it’s only 60 degrees F here (touch over 15 degrees for you non-USAer types :p), so I’ve just been opening the windows so far. Next week is is supposed to be in the 80’s though, so I’ll probably have to do that. And this weekend I’m going over to get my dad’s swamp cooler set up so it’s ready to go. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/air-conditioner-turned-on/813466.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/air-conditioner-turned-on/813466.md?page=3)