is the wind strong/steady enough to passively cool your house? (Kennewick: closing, live)

[dAqS6R0gRQet]

this month seems to be the best time to compare my local climate in hell hole florida to tri cities since the listed "high" has been the same almost every day

right now its 76 in both locations

the main difference?

its 8pm here and still almost 80 damn degrees and humid, by 8pm up there time it'll be down to 66 and still dry, its not gonna be 66 till around 3am and it'll still be almost 80% humid


so my main question is, when it does get "hot" near peak hours up there, are you able to leave the windows open and still feel comfortable?

do you use a fan?

and what point does closing the windows and turning A/C on become necessary and even then, about how long do you leave it running before you can open the windows again


i remember in Jersey where its about halfway between as bad as florida and as dry as the weather stats say for tri cities and in the summer we usually would still have to leave them on at night cause its still humid and the windows have to stay closed for even just the dehumidifier to do its job.

[pnwguy2]

No, not during the summer ordinarily. The average high is around 90 during the summer, and 90 feels like 90 even with wind. Of course, we rarely have humidity here. However, there are certain windy days in the Spring and maybe a few in the Fall where you can let it rip through open windows.

[Alaskan Mutt]

When I lived in Kennewick a/c was a must in the summer. However once the sun went down it usually cooled down enough to put a fan in one window blowing out and open another window at the other end of the house for cool air to be sucked in. Maybe 4 or 5 nights a summer it would say 80 or above all night.


Many of the older homes had swamp coolers instead of a/c. However a swamp cooler only pulled things down a few degrees and really made things humid.