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Today marks the beginning of a muggy summer. Are you all ready to sweat and panic? It is anticipated given how a mild/snowless winter we have had months ago. NYC summer days around July4 is always unbearable based on my 10+ years of NY living, not a single exception so far. What is your plan to stay cool this summer?
Today marks the beginning of a muggy summer. Are you all ready to sweat and panic? It is anticipated given how a mild/snowless winter we have had months ago. NYC summer days around July4 is always unbearable based on my 10+ years of NY living, not a single exception so far. What is your plan to stay cool this summer?
Ever since I was a kid July was murder.............
It really isn't that warm outside. Manhattan may have been warm in afternoon but it was bit chilly on SI.
For past week or so it's been moist, relatively cool but moist. As such AC may or may not do much good.
With temps in high 60's to low or middle 70's ACs must work harder because there just isn't a huge difference between outdoor and indoor temps. Condenser will kick on which drains moistness out of air but systems tend to short cycle because soon as set temp is reached compressor shuts off.
You notice many large buildings, retail shops and others with central AC simply have front doors open with system set to "fan".
It's like driving on GSP or NJP or anywhere else in south Jersey when weather is cool but moist.
You put on window defroster (which is heat) and that doesn't really help keep things clear. What will work is cracking a window and or turning on AC.
For years now from about NJ through NYC and up to New England has been considered humid subtropical climate zone. That means besides moist summers NYC is getting warmer and moist winters as well.
Spring and summer in NYC are increasingly like those seasons in much of the south; moist. Summers most in NYC are used to, but this spring early summer dampness is a whole other matter.
It really isn't that warm outside. Manhattan may have been warm in afternoon but it was bit chilly on SI.
For past week or so it's been moist, relatively cool but moist. As such AC may or may not do much good.
With temps in high 60's to low or middle 70's ACs must work harder because there just isn't a huge difference between outdoor and indoor temps. Condenser will kick on which drains moistness out of air but systems tend to short cycle because soon as set temp is reached compressor shuts off.
You notice many large buildings, retail shops and others with central AC simply have front doors open with system set to "fan".
It's like driving on GSP or NJP or anywhere else in south Jersey when weather is cool but moist.
You put on window defroster (which is heat) and that doesn't really help keep things clear. What will work is cracking a window and or turning on AC.
For years now from about NJ through NYC and up to New England has been considered humid subtropical climate zone. That means besides moist summers NYC is getting warmer and moist winters as well.
Spring and summer in NYC are increasingly like those seasons in much of the south; moist. Summers most in NYC are used to, but this spring early summer dampness is a whole other matter.
Moist
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A/C is necessary due to lack of trees and high rises.
Go back to first floor garden apartments and tree lined streets and it becomes bearable. But that would require a cultural and lifestyle change which most Americans are not willing to make. That includes HAVING LESS CHILDREN
We'll be there in August so we'll just sweat to death
you guys won't make history by submitting to NYC heat stroke...it happened before and will happen again and again to tourists or not....
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