It's a running sore for me that no-one does a light enough duvet for the bits of the year too warm for the thinnest they do and not needing anything. 4.5 tog is my Winter duvet.
I have a very lightweight quilt (what in Canada was called a "comforter") and a sheet. When it got really warm, I just tossed the quilt to one side and slept under the sheet.
We haven’t had a duvet since the beginning of May, just a duvet cover. We have a 4.5 tog duvet and individual quilts and the bedroom window is invariably open. Fan on too.
And what do you know? Under some pressure from younger daughter, Mrs Sioni agrees to do a roast and the weather revs up from the average 20c last week to the “a bit warm for two solid hours in the kitchen” 25c. Actually 30c in the kitchen, 25c outside.
With luck there will be cold chicken for sandwiches. Not chicken and something pie, my usual go-to.
I'm starting to sweat just thinking about duvets. A cotton sheet and the ceiling fan going on full blast is how I'm able to sleep in the summer.
I never thought I'd say this, but if the SoCal summers are going to be consistently humid going forward instead of dry, the next place I live will have AC.
Vertical awnings, there's an idea. Probably cheaper than replacing all the windows so we can install shutters.
I'm just relieved we got to the end of summer without having to dunk the dog more than once. But we are definitely considering grab-bags. A couple of fields on the other side of our city caught fire a few weeks ago. It could just as easily have been the field next to our house.
Plenty of rain, which is good for the plants in the garden and will save us watering tonight, but alas no green grass as it dried so badly that we now have a mixture of straw and mud.
I was looking forward to the scent of petrichor when it rained, but there was hardly any. Apparently it is caused by reanimating a lot of good bacteria in the soil and grass, and excessive heat or very prolonged drought can kill these off. I don’t know if this has great significance. I hope not.
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It's a running sore for me that no-one does a light enough duvet for the bits of the year too warm for the thinnest they do and not needing anything. 4.5 tog is my Winter duvet.
With luck there will be cold chicken for sandwiches. Not chicken and something pie, my usual go-to.
I never thought I'd say this, but if the SoCal summers are going to be consistently humid going forward instead of dry, the next place I live will have AC.
So I suspect you will be needing AC.
(And yes, hot and humid is horrible - that is why in the UK the temperature does not have to be as high, because it is almost always humid.)
O well. It is what it is, and the rain They have promised us for the weekend may make it feel fresher.
Or maybe not...
I'm just relieved we got to the end of summer without having to dunk the dog more than once. But we are definitely considering grab-bags. A couple of fields on the other side of our city caught fire a few weeks ago. It could just as easily have been the field next to our house.
I remember going to a protest following the 2008 elections where I wore shorts. Summer weather went till mid-November that year.
Yes, it's been vile here too!
Much the same in Arkland, with (as usual) high humidity - 89% - and thunderstorms are threatened for this afternoon/evening.
Feeling quite hot, though, at just 72F. The wind, such as it is, has shifted round to the south-south-west, but is having little freshening effect.
Local grass is beginning to show faint traces of GREEN!