You’re lucky. They really don’t work here in the summer in Phoenix. On their best days they can drop the temp 20-25 degrees. When it is 120 that’s still coming out at 95. Increase the humidity and the efficiency drops, so you’re getting 95 degree air at 70% humidity. ugh.
But come late Sept/Oct we’ll be back on the swamper.
I think we have less humidity here and definitely lower temps than Phoenix. I also read somewhere that higher altitude improves swamp cooler performance. On low humidity days my new swamp cooler gets it down 25-30 degrees. I left it on overnight the other night and woke up at 4am and it was 58 and cold as ice in the house. I won’t do that again!
The Monsoon is why I despise swamp coolers so much. That and cottonwoods.
Phoenix 2 years, 4 Corners 7 years.
We turned the swamp cooler on first thing in the morning. The house would get down to 60 or less. The swamp cooler would keep the house cool the rest of the day. (Obviously, it wouldn’t keep it at 60.) If we waited to turn it on, it couldn’t cool the house down as well.
And of course, it did very little during monsoon season.
Not a current desert dweller, but lived in Phoenix for about 3 years, I definitely know about monsoon season and this is definitely that time of year. I preferred the 120 F days of June over the cooler but more humid air in August. Still have no desire to ever see the place again.
Shitty monsoon so far in Phoenix. All the humidity, no cooling rains & ozone.
Became intimately acquainted with it during my tour in Vietnam.