Re:Smoke has caused temperature forecasts to go crazy
by grogenaut on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @04:29PM
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It's still not really. We had 2 days over 90 in seattle, one in the smoke. And a few days at 88-89, in total I had 4 days where I turned on the window unit in my home office. If I wasnt on a deep coding problem I'd be out in the yard. 4 days a year isn't really justification for aircon
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Re:Smoke has caused temperature forecasts to go crazy
by NegativeLatency on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @05:18PM
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If you live by a busy/noisy street as many apartments are, it's necessary. I grew up in the PNW in the suburbs and living more in the city in apartments the need for AC is much more real.
Re:Smoke has caused temperature forecasts to go crazy
by t-writescode on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @08:04PM
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To add to explain why this is:
* any apartment not facing North is going to be experiencing the sun for a LOT of the day during the summer
* most apartments are only facing a single direction, so you can't get through-air to go from one side of the house to the other to pull the cool air from the "not with sun" side.
* Washington houses love big windows that seem to take up a whole side, so it's just heat from the sun all. day. long.
* many apartments are on the second floor, or higher, so heat naturally rises and there is a real consequence to that.
In the winter, I've had to open my window to keep my old apartment under 80 while on the 4th floor with no heaters running (aside from my desktop computer and other normal electronics).