Ice is fine but evaporation is even better.
We are both sitting in front of the fan draped in wet capes these days. F even put wet towels all over the floor in the breezeway, and it has made the floor there NICE AND COOL too.
It got up to 38 degrees C in our shady breezeway yesterday, so we assume it was so much hotter outside proper. Stepping into the breezeway was like opening the oven door, so can you imagine what it must have been like standing at the bus stop - or lying on the rocks beside the sea. People were doing sunbathing - and without umbrellas or anything. They must have been frying their brains.
Oof! It is 19C here today. Just right for me. I am not sure how I would cope with 38C !!!
ReplyDeleteThat's it - we're moving to IoM.
Deletei have learned two things from you, one is it gets as hot in Greece as it does in Florida and that cats get to hot just like dogs. i have never seen a cat in a wet cloth or cape or in front of a fan. what a great idea for cooling the floor. the only thing that makes it liveable here is central AC. we have 9 months of needing AC and I am wondering how long your summer is.. we can live without heat here but not without ac.
ReplyDeleteWe have only about 3 excruciating months. We rent our apartment and it has no AC so we make do. F heard a radio program years ago about traditional ways of cooling homes in the Middle East and it involved a lot of running water - in particular water running in channels on the roof. It was a method employed in the design of one big shopping mall in the outskirts of London and greatly reduced their electricity bill for air conditioning. If you stand near a fountain here you can feel the cooler air, so we figured wet towels on the floor in the absence of proper running water might make a difference - and it does. YIPPEE!
DeleteAnd we might even experiment with misting water onto the mozzy net around the bed.
DeleteOh Tigger you look so cool. It's hard living in a big city in the middle of a heatwave, and no Aircon. F has great ideas. I used to sleep on the marble floor at night when we lived in Piraeus, in a heatwave. It was a few degrees cooler. We had one fan I remember and it blew warm air.
ReplyDeleteThe nights here are bearable. There's a slight north breeze. Only one a half months to go, before the worst is over.
Though I remember September!
My youngest daughter was born in 81. Sept 26, a heatwave and a hospital without even a fan. Oh boy do I remember September
You must be made of tough stuff - marble floors are pretty unforgiving. The cold tiles where the wet towels have been are lovely, but even I'm too soft sleep there for long. We can't begin to imagine doing real hard work in heat like this. Like we said - tough stuff. xxx Mr T
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ReplyDeleteOh remember doing this sort of thing in OZ during the really intense month or so from Christmas through to February. Can't beat a wet towel and fan. Hugs and whiskeries, YAM-aunty xxx
F remembered that in Ozzie outback they used to store water in canvas bags (hanging up) so that the evaporation from the wet surface would cool the water inside. Fz & pz Mr T
DeleteOh my. That is hot and I just can’t understand how people can lay there cooking like in an oven
ReplyDeleteStay inside
Stay cool and most importantly stay hydrated