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RE: ☀️How to cope with the heat - what is your trick? (🍺 prize inside )
Of course @freiheit50 's suggestion about the mountains is correct. But today even here in the mountains it is 33°.
My parents grew up in the in American South before it there was air conditioning, so my mother had some tricks to "beat the heat."
- Wake up early before the sun comes up. Open all the windows and get as much cool air in your home as possible.
- We use a digital thermometer and first we check the temperature indoors, and then place it outside near the window in the shade.
- Once the low temperature outdoors starts to rise we monitor it and the temperature indoors.
- In our particular situation, as soon as it reaches 23° outdoors see close all the windows, and on the East side facing the Sun we also close the shutters so the sunshine won't heat the rooms.
- Our roof hangs out on the South side so we don't get direct sunshine in summer. In any case, block direct sunshine from heating the rooms.
- After doing that, it is tolerable. The air can get a bit stale, but that's better than suffering with the heat.
- About 21.30 we open the windows again -- this is our daily ritual during heatwaves.
No doubt that one had to take this seriously in the American South before the advent of air conditioning. And the latter comes at the price of unnatural dry air that I personally try to avoid. Thanks for sharing this insight.