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Windows are covered with dew (and they're all open). 63°F inside, 56°F out.
Can we switch? You must have some air gaps in there. My a/c ran all night again (not as constant though) But house has hard time staying under 68 without a/c. I have all new insulation and windows and walls.
Outside its 62°F with dew point of 61°F. Inside its 69°F.
Windows are covered with dew (and they're all open). 63°F inside, 56°F out.
When I first read it I thought instead of "dew" it said "frost" . Not quite time for that yet...
On another note, I think it's extraordinary that a 56F low can produce a 63F indoors. If it's around 80F for the previous day's high, my house often doesn't get below 74F inside (especially once I get up and move around - the heat from that alone causes a 2F+ rise from, say, 72F). I usually open the house up in a situation like that but even with that 63F is unattainable*. 67F is the best I've ever done under those conditions. Even when it's in the 40's outside, it takes me 1-2 hours to cool the house from 72F to 66F. This is for the bulk of my house - my bedroom is the coolest part and thus reaches cooler readings faster, but only because it starts out cooler. Still, 63F on a 56F morning without air conditioning is out of the question.
*Well, it might be if it stayed at 56F outside all day long, but a 56F low only produces house-cooling temperatures (<65F or 60F) for about 5 hours. Besides, I don't think your location is going to stay at 56F all day anyway.
Of course, all of this is merely my own observations from my own house. Like Nei's situation, your own situation can and probably does differ from mine. I'm just putting it out there in case anyone is interested.
In a 56F minimum, with air conditioning running my room pretty easily gets down to 61-62F and stays at around that level all night (because that's what I set it on ). Once it starts to get cold enough to open my bedroom window all night and let fresh, cold air in, that will provide a chilly base to start with that I didn't have last year, so unlike last season a sub-60F environment should become a regular occurrence, as well as more extreme values (<55F), so I anticipate telling you all of the results of some cold indoor temperature experiments later on.
Chilly morning here too, 53°F outside. The dew point took a nosedive yesterday, it's around 50°F now. Despite the open window (shutter down in the night but leaking a great deal), it's still 75°F inside. Talk about a heat trap.
Can we switch? You must have some air gaps in there. My a/c ran all night again (not as constant though) But house has hard time staying under 68 without a/c. I have all new insulation and windows and walls.
Outside its 62°F with dew point of 61°F. Inside its 69°F.
Wow, you really do like it cool. Even if you lived here, you would need AC during summer. If my house was below 68F in summer, I would think it was cold.
69 is hot? Interesting to see you're less tolerant of the heat than I am, Cambium. I've spent much of the summer not using A/C though, so it's acclimation on my part. 86 outside, 73 in here and it feels a little cool...
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Originally Posted by Patricius Maximus
In a 56F minimum, with air conditioning running my room pretty easily gets down to 61-62F and stays at around that level all night (because that's what I set it on ). Once it starts to get cold enough to open my bedroom window all night and let fresh, cold air in, that will provide a chilly base to start with that I didn't have last year, so unlike last season a sub-60F environment should become a regular occurrence, as well as more extreme values (<55F), so I anticipate telling you all of the results of some cold indoor temperature experiments later on.
Great! I regularly keep temperatures around 55F in the winter, and I'll tell you that it's perfectly fine. Acclimation makes those temps bearable too. Only thing I worried about was the pipes potentially freezing.
I'll repeat ,if it wasn't so muggy I would find a way to tolerate these normal temperatures in the mid 80s. but when the air is stagnant and unbreathable it hits you in the face when your outside.
If theres something to remember about this summer that's it. A strong ridge in the atlantic pumping dewpoints into the 60s.
Felt quite hot today. The high reached 84 F. That sun is still pretty strong and will feel so for at least another month.
64 F outside, but 72 F downstairs. Not sure if the A/C was on this evening. My bedroom is probably a few degrees warmer. I haven't turned on my A/C in nearly two weeks. I've definitely acclimated to the heat this summer.
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. Not quite time for that yet...
Awesome.
