Hot Riding preparation

[jessmarimba]

Well, it certainly wouldn't interrupt any sleep because it is too stinkin hot to sleep! We tried sleeping outside, rather unsuccessfully because of the wind.

I'm sleeping on the couch downstairs with a tower fan, since 93 degrees with shaded windows is remarkably cooler than my upstairs, with no porch roofs to block windows and temps of around 105. It cooled to 82 downstairs overnight.

I don't want full-blown a/c because of Raynaud's, but I went to buy a portable evaporative cooler yesterday and the entire Denver/Boulder metro area is sold out. Something's gotta give. 3 days of record heat here in a row. Maybe I'll sleep at my office tomorrow night?

[malkin]

I'm in Salt Lake City.
Our house is pretty far from well designed; the bedroom upstairs heats up like an oven. We're running AC and a portable swamp cooler too, which makes it okay inside, but it's just blasting hot outside.

Next modification to the house will be better insulation and venting the attic space, but really, when it's that hot outside it's just that hot. The sun at this altitude feels nastier to me than it does shining through all the lovely atmosphere at sea level.

Relative humidity is 10% and there are fires all over the state.

Brewer & I were outside downtown this afternoon and ended up making jokes about living on Tatooine and more obscurely "Dune, Arakis, Desert Planet..." So maybe the heat has gone to my head...

Usually June is nice!