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Survey: The temperature in my room now is _____ and it feels _____
I'm curious how everyone here is coping this summer. Personally I prefer winter, I can always warm up with blankets and hot soup if it gets too cold. But this time of year even with the AC on full blast my brain still feels entirely cooked.
For my room it is now 80F/27C and it feels too dang hot!!
(also about 40% humidity here, which is high for what is normally a desert region)
The temperature in my room now is triple digits and it feels like satan's butthole.
I just got done helping someone move, so I'm a bit ornery the AC isn't combating the heat as much as I'd hoped.
I was very concerned before I remembered Fahrenheit exists
I mean, I'm still very concerned. But at least not literal steam.
It’s interesting how I’ve pretty much forgotten about the existence of hot or humid weather. When I travel somewhere and finally step outside of the air conditioned terminal there’s often a confused moment. I never anticipate it. I’m like “What is that feeling? It’s familiar…”
Have it at 76 F (24 C). Usually keep it between 74-76 in the summer. Any colder and I want to put on more layers.
In the winter I keep the thermo at 60. So that's a 15 degree difference, but beyond electricity costs, I like feeling the season.
Interesting take, I end up wanting my room opposite of the weather most of the time. I'll just go outside to feel the season!
The temperature in my room right now is irrelevant because menopause is a bitch and hot flashes laugh in the face of thermodynamics.
18C ish/no idea in F. It feels fine though the pub down the road with an open fire is occupying a place in my desires.
That's about 64-65 F, FYI.
Where I work the thermostat is locked at 70°F and I hate it so much because the weather is around 95° or higher. I’m pretty acclimatized to the weather and have gotten used to wearing short clothes to keep cool, but when the temperature is approaching a 30° difference that’s just plain stupid. I can’t just change into pants when I get there, especially because I’m typically there for just an hour at a time. Even before the summer I had a younger kid I could barely get to focus on his studies because he would be frozen by the cold air coming out of the vents. It’s so incredibly dumb that I was close to doing a rant thread on how air conditioning was a mistake and shouldn’t have been invented.
The temperature in my room now is 69°F and it feels nice.
I have to crank the AC at the end of the day to get it to cool down the bedroom. The living room cools off just fine. I’d say it gets too cold. But the bedroom is a sauna.
Arrived at the vacation home yesterday and the house is a perfect 21C/70F. Outside it’s been 33-38C/92-100F for a long time now, but since the house is built with thick stone walls and is partially built into a hill, it remains cool without AC. It’s heavenly! Now that we’re here, temperature in house will rise a bit, but won’t go over 23C/73F.
Only downside is that it always smells a bit like a damp cloth. But that’s also part of the charm, I guess.
That sounds great, I need to get myself a proper bat-cave too! :D
68F (or if you want something more scientific, 528 Rankine). It feels warm. I like it cold. Like really cold. I think I need to move to the arctic circle.
I like the cold a lot more than hot days. The heat always feels like I can’t escape it. Especially when you have to do some manual labor, it’s miserable.
Interestingly, my wife is the opposite. She has that same feeling with the cold. Where I have the feeling I can always warm up by adding another layer or something, she feels like she can’t escape the cold. It’s interesting how that’s different for different people.
But I’ll join your move, if you let me.
68 sounds about perfect for me. I can understand wanting it even colder though I think I'd miss the occasional casual walk in the woods.
This is with the AC running. I could not stand 80. I hated it when I didn't have AC.
81F and 49% humidity, which doesn't feel bad. Humidity is very high for my region at this time of year however.
My AC is on and will drop the temperature down to 78 soon. That's the temp I keep my house overnight, and it often feels a little too cool while the AC blower is going.
74°F and 58% humidity. It feels swampy. And this is with the AC running and a decent sized dehumidifier. I would prefer it cooler but it's a very old house and expensive to cool.
Huh. That's basically my exact temp/humidity, but I've got my house open to the night air to cool it back down overnight. It feels pretty much exactly neutral, maybe a tiny bit warm.
Erm. Are this survey only about USA? If yes can we add USA tag or change title?
Upd: sorry all, understand, we all have weather :)
Nah, I don’t feel like it is. More like a fun question than a serious survey, and anyone can answer. I hope at least, because I’m not in the US.
Yeah I realize it's not summer everywhere but I'm still curious how different people around the world like their room temps.
*Edit:
Apologies for anyone not actually on this planet. If you could let us know the temperature of your spacecraft that would be stellar!
I only post this as a point of interest, but about 87% of people live in the Northern Hemisphere and are thus in "summer".
To be honest, my question is not about summer, but about USA. But anyway, thanks for the info :)
I'm curious about what caused you to think it was US only?
Edit for clarity: I am genuinely curious, and not looking to argue about whether it is "coded American", and not trying to question the veracity of your feelings, but to try to share in them so I understand why you felt that way.
Especially on a site owned and operated by a Canadian, with a high proportion of Canadian regulars.
That's actually one of the things I really like about this site; one of the many, many things that used to get on my tits about Reddit was the almost default assumption that everyone participating there was from the US and "white." (I deeply dislike that descriptor for reasons I won't inflict upon you now.) Hell, I am a "white" US American, and I found it insufferable.
Does the rest of the northern hemisphere not have weather to talk about? The OP was talking about summer, but the US doesn't have a monopoly on it.
The temperature in my room now is 76°F/24.4°C and it feels good. It's probably actually a little cooler in here, maybe be like a degree or two, but that's what the thermostat says.
It's 4am on the US east coast. I've had my windows open all day! Nice to save some on electricity.
It's currently 24,8 Celsius inside for me in the Czech Republic, I'm in shorts and T-shirt and it feels ok.
The previous heat wave was much worse, as nowadays the night are quite cold (10-15 Celsius) and it helps keep the house from heating up too much.
Just spent a week in the Mohave desert where the daytime high was around 120f/49c. Spent most of that time in a temporary enclosure that was cooled to around 90f/32c. It was so dry, I could walk the thirty feet back from the latrine after washing my hands, and they'd be dry at the door.
The weird thing was, it was pretty bearable. I know I was sweating, but it evaporated so fast that I was dry all the time. I had lightweights picking clothes and I was drinking over 4l of water a day though. I didn't have any of the dry skin / cracked lips that some of my colleagues were experiencing.
Now I'm back in western PA and it's just 80f/26c outside, but 60% humidity and it is miserable. I feel hot and drenched in sweat all the time when I am outside.
Inside, I try to keep the house at 70f/21c, but lately I've had to make it even cooler to balance the humidity, and I still feel like I am sweating.
No real point I guess, just had to "vent" a little.
30 C, it feels like ~35 C
I've gotten used to the temperature here and as long as I have a fan on I don't tend to notice the heat that much besides accepting that if I do anything beyond sitting in one spot I am going to start sweating.
:| how ..... Cool does it get in winter there?
In the "winter" my area gets to a low of ~23 and highs of ~32+
There's not really much of a difference and I usually joke with me friends that I get the seasons of hot, hotter, and rainy (monsoon) hot.
Installed a Della Optima Series 12k BTU 230v SEER2 23 Ultra Heat (GREE rebadge) mini-split just in time for the recent barrage of summer-time heatwaves. It has actually been keeping up pretty well, including removing humidity from the air.
Although, it seems like even though I set it to 24c I have to set the fan to turbo mode every once in a while or it won't read that the other side of the room is already 26c.
Google tells me it feels like 45c outside for the next two days but the actual temperature will only briefly peak at 36c around 5pm. By Friday the weather in western Illinois will be back to a normal but humid 21~24c.
I have a little Xiaomi Smart Temperature and Humidity Monitor 3 Mini which has a cute smile or frown if the temperature or humidity gets too crazy. But sometimes it will be 26c and feel cold while othertimes it is 23c and feels to hot even while humidity is around 40% both times. So I think humans don't prefer one stable temperature.
Very sunny summer afternoon on the coast. It's 21.8°C indoors, 58% humidity, window slightly open and I have a light sweater on. My down duvet is still on the bed and most nights windows are closed. AC not needed yet so far but September will get hot.
We complian about the very much delayed summers, eg, not yet time for blueberries, raspberries nor blackberries yet, cherry blossoms was in June. But I'm hoping it will provide adequately survivable buffer for climate change.
When I visited Vancouver in June/July, it felt blistering, knowing it wasn't even 30°C most days. I needed the window wide open until ~3am.
23°C and it feels just about perfect, especially after having returned from my in-laws where the indoor temperature gets quite warm. It is also dry and the air is nicely filtered and fresh; the current raging storm outdoors is just a bit of noise, and the last couple weeks of smoke filled air had largely been a non issue as long as we have stayed indoors.
26-27°C these days, I got used to it I have to say and I'm cold when it goes down (two months of heatwave does that I guess...), but if it gets higher I start to suffer.
27C and it feels warm, but not unbearable. Fans are underrated, they really are miracle workers for keeping you cool. Our AC is in the process of dying (can't really cool all that great) so we're waiting for the opportunity to replace it. Thankfully the weather has been fine to where keeping the windows open (except when it rains) keeps everything somewhat comfy.
It's 25C, but at this point that's mostly the fault of my gaming PC, unlike recent weeks where the outside temperature leaking in would have brought it to 28C/29C. It's an improvement, but could still do with being less. My ideal is like 19C I guess.
26-27 Celsius. It feels fine, it's not too humid today. If it's too humid, I'll run air conditioning to bring it down to 24 or so (typically in the evening). If it's dry, I'm fine up to maybe 29? 30+ has historically been my conveniently rounded "I'm uncomfortable" temperature.
In the winter these days I aim for 20 or higher. I feel colder than I used to as a kid, probably in no small part due to having been overweight in my teens and 20s. And portuguese people are wusses when it comes to cold ;)
The humidity here never drops below 50% unless something very unusual is going on. In the winter I run a dehumidifier all day set to bring the humidity down to 70%, pulling several litres of water (about two tanks) from the air per day. Right now averaging a couple WU stations it's about 75% outdoors, probably 60 something indoors.
My entire house shares one temperature setting. So when my wife upstairs turns on the AC to get it to a comfortable temperature, my office down in the basement gets positively chilly.
The temperature in my apartment is 20C(outside is 17C), and it feels refreshing.
My answer is “whatever it feels like outside, plus or minus a few, and it feels fine I guess.”
We’ve had at least one window venting (or open) since January (when we had to let out the heat from our building because it gets too damn hot otherwise, even with our radiators closed).
Probably high 60s/low 70s/low 20s in C in my apartment and it feels pleasant. I don’t have an AC nor a thermometer so I can’t really measure the temperature. It was a bit warmer in my city this week so it was a little warmer than I’d like at night but nothing too crazy.
Currently 15 C and with a jacket on that feels ok. Outside is about 2.5 at this point of the night so not doing too badly considering I haven't turned the heater on today.
As you might guess it's currently winter rather than summer, and I'm alright with that. I can deal with summer heat fine during the days (assuming it's low humidity like it usually in is my area) but I find it easier to get to sleep on cooler nights.
The temperature in my room has sat around 28-30c this week while outside it's been 34-37c, with 0% humidity it feels fine and i'm even exercising infront of a full blast fan at some points.
If i fall asleep somewhere where there isn't airflow it will be a loong sleep and i will wake up feeling like mush.
It's currently 14°C (57°F) indoors, 5°C (41°F) outdoors. It feels chilly.
I'm in the southern hemisphere.