Finally, the heat is off.
- Our weather is now at that point to where we all remember why we live here.
For the next nearly 8 months, we are in for the most delightful weather now that the air conditioning demand is nearly done. For us, June through September comes with lots of heat and humidity. That said, we do our best to be careful with how much air conditioning we use. There are plenty of folks I know who pushed the thermostat super low and just stay inside the air conditioning all of those four months. This seems like a complete waste of where we live. Sure, it’s hot and humid and sometimes feels overwhelming. You for sure don’t want to be outside exerting after lunch time as that can be dangerous due to the level of heat. But too much air conditioning inside the house can also make it feel even more oppressive outside. We do our best to find a middle ground when it comes to the thermostat setting. During the day, we try to keep the thermostat in the low 80s when it’s near a hundred outside. We move it down a bit into the mid to lower 70s for a cooling evening. We try to remember that our grandparents lived much of their lives very close to where we are right now without any kind of residential HVAC. So it’s definitely doable to find a middle ground between staying stuck inside too much HVAC cooling and not enough. I think we do a pretty good job and we’re not forking over nearly a car payment just for air conditioning.