The summer is coming soon to the Northern Hemisphere. How do you plan to combat the heat? I live in a regular apartment without air conditioning, and installing a full-scale system is not an option. I wonder what my options are, and how other people are planning to deal with the issue.

  • @PeteWheeler@lemmy.world
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    97 days ago

    It really just depends on your climate, geography, and infrastructure.

    Where is I was raised, it would be consistently 90-100 Fahrenheit throughout the summer. And one week that was always up to 110.

    I had no ac, but a constant broken swamp cooler. So basically no real ac.

    In the mornings and night when it did become cool, you would open all the windows and doors for the air and wind to blow through, and then about 9am you would close the windows and blinds and deal with the heat.

    Sleeping through the worst parts of the heat is not a bad idea.

    • @corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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      5 days ago

      Sleeping through the worst parts of the heat is not a bad idea.

      In 2021 when the heat got oppressive here, we couldn’t sleep through any of it. it was 45c in one daytime, and with 90% humidity it was an actual killer. There was no sleep at night, no sleep all day, it was all just counting the hours until it was over – or we had an excuse to go to work where - for me - it was a cool basement attached to a cooler datacenter. We joked we should move desks into there, but our little group may have left a door open to the DC and let the chiller do an extra 10% space on those days!