Good Gawd! It’s only 105 out there, but it sure feels more like about 110 to 112. Probably because the humidity, sez Wunderground, is 24%.
Meanwhile, inside the shack with the air-conditioning pounding away, the thermometer next to the bed where the dawg and I are loafing reads 84 degrees. Balmy. The AC is laboring to drag the thermostat down to 80.
My power bill is gonna be astronomical…
Incredibly, the pool remains crystal-clear — some kind of miracle in this fine, algae-friendly heat. Thing is, I haven’t seen Pool Dude in the past two weeks.
No way in Hell that water could stay that clean all by its fine self. That says that PD is showing up when I’m not here, since Ruby goes BATSHIT with Corgi Joy whenever she realizes he’s here. So either he’s sneaking in during the night — very, v-e-e-r-r-y quietly, or somehow he’s arriving when I’m out. The latter is unlikely, since these days, between the heat and the plague, I don’t go out much. But then, the former is pretty unlikely, too.
At any rate, I just tested the water. It’s very high on chlorine. That suggests Our Hero has been at work.
The floater is full of tabs, and I haven’t put any in there. In this kind of heat, chlorine tabs dissolve quickly, so even though he’s dropping five or six tabs in there, they wouldn’t be THAT plump if he hadn’t shown up yesterday to refill the thing.
Welp, we can’t complain too much about Arizona’s summer heat and…absent monsoons. Good Lord! A million people back East without power. Power lines trapping the natives. Airports shut down. Tornado in Tennessee.
It’s supposed to warm up a bit next week…115 or so, come mid-week. Chance of the traditional late-summer monsoon rains: about nil.
Here in lovely south Louisiana, the temp is…and has been every day for at least a month…96. Real feel 120. High later on this afternoon to go to 101. That’s courtesy of a 57% humidity, somewhat better than this morning’s 82%. And very, very dry. We haven’t had measurable rain in over two weeks.
Louisiana isn’t known for its comfortable summers, but I’ve spent at least 2/3 of my 80 years here and never remember heat like this. We stay inside as much as possible, and, frankly, my dear, we don’t give a damn how much the electric bill is. Here’s looking forward to October.
Wunderground says it’s a chilly 107 here just now: “feels like” 109. Humidity is 11%, so we’re told.
I expect to see a power bill of around 400 bucks for this month. Shoulda let those door-to-door hustlers install them thar solar panels, eh? 😀
Yeah, I remember the Deep South as being almost as soggy as Saudi Arabia. Where we were on the Persian Gulf, some mornings you’d wake up and see water that had condensed out of the clear, cloudless air dripping off the eaves.
And the only AC we had was a variety of swamp cooling. Cold water was piped down from the refinery into the camp. It would be pumped through piping in your house, and your “air conditioner” blew hot, soggy air from outside over those pipes. This would cool the air pretty well most of the time, except for a couple months in the summertime.