Heat Index Blues
Aug. 2nd, 2008 09:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
daidoji_giseiI have been without air conditioning for over ten years now, and this has been voluntary on my part. People look at me oddly when this comes up, but I live on the ground floor of the building, with nice windows and a really big tree shading my apartment to the south--these things, taken together, mean that generally there are only one or two really bad heat weeks each summer.
This...is one of those weeks. As I write it is a little after nine at night, and according to the National Weather Service the temperature is 90F (32C) with a heat index of 105F (41C). This is down from around 6 pm when we had a heat index of 112F (44C, I think). I don't know how hot it was when I walked to the post office late afternoon, and it is probably better that way.
On the brighter side, I finished gluing my solar oven together Friday night, and given that it is going to be really sunny out tomorrow I plan to test it out. I think I'll try cooking some barley: grains are generally unfussy about exact temperatures and being able to cook some in this weather without heating up the kitchen sounds very attractive.
This...is one of those weeks. As I write it is a little after nine at night, and according to the National Weather Service the temperature is 90F (32C) with a heat index of 105F (41C). This is down from around 6 pm when we had a heat index of 112F (44C, I think). I don't know how hot it was when I walked to the post office late afternoon, and it is probably better that way.
On the brighter side, I finished gluing my solar oven together Friday night, and given that it is going to be really sunny out tomorrow I plan to test it out. I think I'll try cooking some barley: grains are generally unfussy about exact temperatures and being able to cook some in this weather without heating up the kitchen sounds very attractive.
