It's pouring, it's pouring but this man will not be snoring...

[Blazer]

I hate summertime and in particullar the kind of summertime when it's over 90 degrees and humid, and that's exactly the case here. Yesterday I wanted to start work on new guitar bodies but it was so hot inside the shop that I nearly fainted because of the heat.

The whole week it has been a constant coming and going of extremely hot and humid weather and thunderstorms with very heavy downpoor. So when a day like today happens when it's so hot that the tarmac is soggy when you walk over it and it's so humid that you swear you'd sweat yourself completely empty, I know there's a thunderstorm coming. But this time that thunderstorm arrived late.

When I'm writing this down it's almost 3:30 in the morning and my apartment is still simmering from the heat and humidity and just when I was drifting to sleep a loud "CHARACATABABROOOM" awoke me fully.

So at the moment I hear the rain really slam into the roof tiles (my apartment is situated underneath a sloping roof) and the crashing thunder also doesn't really help. 

Oh well, at least they slowly drive the heat away.

I hate summertime.

[Dave W]

No air conditioning?

[Max Soren]

I'll never complain about the summer no matter how hot it gets.  It's the winter I can't stand.  The cold is nothing but a form of pain.

[hollowbody]

Sweating is much more appealing to me than shivering.

[PhilT]

You'd love it in England. So far this year we've had 2 days I would describe as uncomfortably hot.

[Chris P.]

I'll never complain about the summer no matter how hot it gets.  It's the winter I can't stand.  The cold is nothing but a form of pain.

+1

People always complain. It's either too hot, too cold, too wet or too dry.

I like the climate in Holland. Sometimes I hate winter, but if it's a shiny, freezing winter day... I just love that!  And the first sunny days in spring, just sheer magic! We even started topics about that here!!! My brother lives in Kuala Lumpur and it's always hot. So no first spring day. i don't envy him!

[Blazer]

No air conditioning?

Can you spare my cash needed to buy one?

And aside from that, they are noisy.

[uwe]

I don't mind winter, if there is light. I don't mind heat if it is dry and I don't have to wear a business suit. For some reason, I like rain and love storms. Rain is a breastfeeding of nature (to use a less than skillful metaphor) and I thinks it's cozy to be at home and dry while it is pouring and lightnings flash. I also like the tranquility after a heavy downpour - it#s a cleansing.

My preferred temperature is one where you would feel just a little cold if you sat down in a T-shirt doing nothing, but neither sweat nor freeze as you are moving around.

Uwe

[Lightyear]

I'm with Uwe - I love a good storm!  Living in Texas we can have some dramitic thunderstorms here in the summer.  I fondly recall staying with relatives, in my childhood, in the country and the sounds of huge thunderstorms when your under a "tin" (metal) roof.  Call me nuts

And living in sub tropical Houston, heat index of 110 today, AC is a gift from God

[Dave W]

103 (actual, not heat index) predicted for today here in the Guadalupe/Comal area. Humid but not as much as Houston. I plan on being inside in the AC most of the day.

[Barklessdog]

In Chicago we have had the best spring/summer in a long time, if you dont live on a major river.

[ramone57]

103 (actual, not heat index) predicted for today here in the Guadalupe/Comal area. Humid but not as much as Houston. I plan on being inside in the AC most of the day.

those are the days AC is made for!

as for storms, I like 'em as long as I'm not trying to sleep.  a front came through 5:00 am Saturday morning bringing ferocious thunderstorms and it woke me up.   couldn't get back to sleep and I was not happy about that.

[Lightyear]

The official high in Houston yesterday was 101 - it was 110, I believe, in Dallas.  And to think that my folks didn't get AC, a window unit at that, until 1961   Unbelievable!  You have to wonder why anyone would live here before AC?!

[Lightyear]

Can you spare my cash needed to buy one?

And aside from that, they are noisy.

I am amazed at how cheap window units have gotten - I saw that Lowes was selling a small 5000 BTU unit for less than $100.00! Five years ago they were closer to $150.00!  I think I could sell blood, plasma or whatever to scrape together enough cash to at least sleep cool.  Of couse our summers last about six months

[Dave W]

The official high in Houston yesterday was 101 - it was 110, I believe, in Dallas.  And to think that my folks didn't get AC, a window unit at that, until 1961   Unbelievable!  You have to wonder why anyone would live here before AC?!

My folks didn't buy an AC until 1958 - a giant Friedrich room air conditioner big enough to cool the whole house. And they wouldn't have bought it except that the five other couples in their monthly bridge club told them they were going to be booted if they didn't get one! This was in Houston, too. At least we had an attic fan (now called a whole house fan). That helped make you feel cooler at night. My mom said that when she was growing up they would sleep out on their screened porch on the hottest nights.

I am amazed at how cheap window units have gotten - I saw that Lowes was selling a small 5000 BTU unit for less than $100.00! Five years ago they were closer to $150.00!  I think I could sell blood, plasma or whatever to scrape together enough cash to at least sleep cool.  Of couse our summers last about six months 

Competition from China is the reason. The Friedrich plant in San Antonio shut down last November and moved to Monterey to try to keep competitive (they're still headquartered in SA), and that was the last US plant making window units. End of an era.