Yeah, our previous house went from a tar/aggregate built up roof that was black and to a plastic sheet roofing material that was white. There were other changes made at the same time such as replacing the windows, but the roof probably made the largest difference.
I will most likely go with a standing seam roof on this house once it needs new shingles.
South Oak Cliff checking in here. 106 officially at Red Bird airport (the local NOAA station) yesterday. My car said 108 while driving around. Officially only 101 today, though!
Not sure. We don’t have a temperature gauge in our house. No air-con, definitely no heating. It has never reached 100 degrees in Hawaii, and this summer seems to be a mild one so far – still kind of cool at night. Usually pretty comfortable with the fans going.
Meanwhile, in the middle of Wisconsin, it’s been 85º/85% Humidity.
But I’ve been going to Milwaukee for Summerfest (music festival, the last three weekends) which is right on the shore of Lake Michigan.
Downtown, where I parked for cheap, was sweltering, but as I got within maybe three blocks of the lake, the temps plummeted and a cold fog was rolling in over the different stages.
So I went from shorts and a t-shirt to long pants and three layers so I could stop shivering. It reminded me how, growing up in Mke, every weathercast would end by giving the predicted temperature, “…but cooler near the lake.”
My “house” at the moment has lots of wheels and gets shitty gas mileage. The guage claims it’s 62 outside, and we built a campfire last night and wore jackets.
We’re soon headed back to Texas where my daughter says our house thermometer read 106 yesterday. I’m starting to understand snowbirds, although we’re doing it in reverse.
Dallas here, too. It is so hot. I am profoundly glad I replaced the AC 2 years ago. The old one “worked”, but in this weather it would have been 85 or higher.
We went to Six Flags yesterday. We have season passes, and my kid is 10 and bored in the house. He begged. We made it 2 hours. Good news is that it was basically deserted: lines looked like they look on a Sunday on a rainy November day. So the boys wereable to ride 4 rides. But when we came home, I was utterly drained.
Here in South FL at 8am it was 83F/28C. Should top out at 89F/32C. When I got a bit after 5am it was about 80F.
Right now I’m comfortably sitting outside on the patio but in the shade; sitting in the windless direct sunlight would be a bit much. Besides, it’s hard to read my screen in the blazing light. Here in the shade I have some hope of success.
Sugar Land here. According to the home weather station, it topped out yesterday at 105.8 (heat index max of 123.7) and bottomed out this morning at 81.1
Wouldn’t be so bad but the humidity is absolutely terrible. Dew points in the 70s feel awful (I believe the semi-official term is ‘oppressive’)
The forecast calls for it to be a few degrees cooler today, so there’s that. ERCOT has already asked for Texans to conserve electricity this afternoon as they’re expecting record usage for the 100th time this year (may be a slight exaggeration).
That’s the relative humidity. The air can hold more water when it’s hot. Tomorrow morning, it’ll shoot up to 70-80%.
Early this morning, it was 90+% at the house and at the moment, it’s ~40%. Similar amount of water vapor, more or less, but the air can hold more when it’s over 100 than when it’s around 80.
That’s why we often talk more about the heat index or dew points. At the moment, it’s 102 at the house with a heat index of ~115. The lower the humidity, the closer the two will be. A 10+ degree difference means there’s a fair amount of moisture in the air. In San Antonio, I see the city weather station reporting 108 degrees with a heat index of 112, so as usual, it’s less humid in the hill country than closer to the coast or the piney woods.
97F in Viburnum, Missouri, my little corner of Heaven just down the road from St. Louis. The electric bill on my desk, due on the 20th, is for $200-ish. That’s about right for summer; not outrageously high, not outrageously low.
Oh, about mid 60’s outside. Since it’s been cloudy, a bit more chilly in the house. Our propane heat stove went out about two weeks ago, good sleeping weather, but we miss it.
I just got the part for the heat stove, but I have to tear into it to replace it.
It has been cloudy for a while. Our house depends on the sun for warmth. It’s good and bad that in the middle of summer we really don’t get as much sun coming in. Sun is too high. Temps fluctuate quite a bit inside. And outside. Such is life at elevation. The air does not hold any heat.
When the sun goes down in a Colorado town, you best go in for the evening.
With only 14% humidity. Somehow we’ve been transported to Arizona.