Weather ... again

[Polly]

That sounds nasty, MOTM - hopefully no more damage has been found today and everyone escaped with no injuries.

Today is the last of the hot weather, 29C and sunny all day, down to 25C forecast for tomorrow and nights are cooler now, though our bedroom is reading 27C at the moment. I’ve just got in and turned the fans and mobile aircon on so it should drop a couple of degrees by bedtime.

[exile]

Lots of thunder and rain last night, meaning that most water butts are now full.

Slight disruption due to power cuts as various circuits tripped in the night, setting off alarms.

[Blaze]

We had a terrific storm on Thursday late afternoon and enough rain to fill our water butts. Yesterday the temperature was very pleasant with a slight breeze.
We're fortunate here in that we don't get the extremes of further south. The grain harvest seems to have gone well and the land behind us is being harrowed as I write.

[L Austin France]

A very mild 28 deg this afternoon with a nice breeze.
Well glazed west facing kitchen/day room comfortable without air con running so far.
Sun at about SW so gonna get hotter when it moves around a bit more methinks, so soon be lowering all of the 5 'leccy roller blinds in readiness.

[Char]

It's very strange, back to normal summer temperatures here - but it feels like autumn. I suppose I must have started to get acclimatised to the heat.

[Lori]

I suppose I must have started to get acclimatised to the heat.

Yes, a few days ago, I read that it takes the body approximately 2 weeks of sustained high heat temps to acclimate. After that the heat doesn't feel as much like He** as it did previously. I can attest that now, afternoons of 32 to 34 degrees feel down right comfortable. I guess after a couple of weeks of more normal heat, I will acclimate backwards.

[Hotrodder]

Having lived in UK and France for over 50 years where temperature is expressed in Celsius I hadn't really realised how hot it has been recently. When I found a metric conversion site it was a "light bulb moment". Lori's 32 is actually 90 in Californian. No wonder the tourists can't understand why air conditioning is so rare in Europe.

[exile]

AC? For maybe 20 days per year?

Maybe if combined with heating in an air to air heat exchanger, it makes sense, but AC on its own?

[Hotrodder]

~Either way, it wouldn't be cheap. Only a dream for many.

[L Austin France]

~Either way, it wouldn't be cheap. Only a dream for many.

Have you tried getting a grant ,or whatever it's called, for air/air PAC's
I believe they're now available for low income households.
Maybe this; https://www.laprimeenergie.fr/les-trava ... isponibles