Your furnace in the winter is on for longer times than the AC is on in the summer. So your dry warm air in the winter time results in less condensation, than the summer because your AC is not constantly running and drying out the air.
No. But you’re on the right track.
How about this.
You have a thermocline. in the Summer your AC is trying to cool the whole house, the upper floors are paticularly hard to cool becuase the hot air rises and the insulation is poor so it is being heated by the outside. All of this cold air is settling in the basement making it quite chilly.
In the winter, you heat the house and although the hot air rises, the fact that the basement in underground limits how much heat it loses so it is actually warmer than it would be in the summer.
Is that about right?
Yep. That’s pretty much it.
The basement by it’s nature is far better “insulated” then the upstairs. Mainly because the upstairs is mostly an “open” design and has a decent amount of windows relative to the size. Also since the space isn’t big, some of the furniture is no doubt reducing the efficiency of the registers ability to get the air to circulate fully upstairs…which is where the thermostat is.
So while cold-air sinks, and that contributes somewhat, the main issue is that the thermostat upstairs takes much longer to cool down to the hysteresis temperature that turns off the A/C.
Meanwhile, the much more efficient basement is cooling down much faster effectively. So when the upper floor finally reaches the temperature set by the thermostat, the basement is considerably lower.
In the Winter, the situation reverses itself, though not nearly as dramatic as in the summer. Probably because heat rises which means the extra heat from the basement works it’s way upstairs and the furniture that partially blocks the flow from the registers factors in less because the air is rising around it.
So when the outside air is really hot in the summer, or really cold in the winter, the basement paradoxically will be warmer in the winter and colder in the summer.
The upshot is when taking a shower the steam hits a colder mirror in the summer and so the mirror steams up more.
Also, thanks for teaching me a new word today. I knew of the general idea of a thermocline, but didn’t know what the term for it was.
I was streaming an episode a TV series last night. On the show two characters, Carol and Tony, broke up their relationship. The given plot reason for the break-up was that a man was painting nearby, though neither character knew that was the plot reason (Carol thought Tony was seeing someone else). But neither of these plot reasons was the real reason for the character relationship break-up. What was?
So, ‘painting’ as in maybe doing a hauntingly beautiful portrait, or more like ‘painting’ as in maybe just putting a fresh coat on the wall?
Painting as in a portrait.
Portraiture of Carol, or Tony, or both, or neither? Self-portrait of the artist? Someone else entirely?
Someone else.
Is the “real reason” a reason that exists within the fictional universe of the show? Or is it something outside of the show (e.g., the actor playing one of the characters wanted to quit)?
Not sure how to answer this. Both elements are needed to create the true reason.
“Carol thought Tony was seeing someone else” — the painter? Or the subject of the painting? Or no one in particular, it’s just, like, Carol found lipstick on Tony’s collar, or a scribbled phone number in his pocket, or whatever, and doesn’t know from whom?
Or something else entirely?
The subject of the painting.
Of Carol and Tony and the painter and the paintee, which characters are regulars on the show?
All. Less so recently for the painter. The painter only makes a few appearances this season (his last, alas). The other characters continue on with the same actors for many more episodes and seasons.
Is this show currently new? Are they making new episodes?
If not, what decade is it from? I can ask each decade individually, but would rather not.
Not new. No more episodes. From the 1960’s and 1970’s.
Let me just make sure I have this straight:
Carol thought Tony was seeing someone else, and Carol and Tony broke up, but not because Carol thought Tony was seeing someone else — and someone nearby was painting whoever Carol thought Tony was seeing, which (a) was ‘the given plot reason for the break-up,’ but which (b) wasn’t the real reason.
Is that accurate?
So the real reason could be pretty much anything — maybe the actor and actress split up in real life; maybe the ratings had plummeted while the producers got toms of letters from fans who didn’t want those characters together; maybe the writers simply decided it’d be funnier and more interesting to have Tony swear off women and become a priest — just so long as it wasn’t actually due to the Carol-Thought-Tony-Was-Seeing-The-Person-Being-Painted plot, right? That’s the only thing being ruled out?
Was the real reason some out-of-universe circumstance? Say, one of the actors leaving the show?