We had freezing rain last night, after a night of over a foot of snowfall. I had to work most of the day, so had to go out driving in it. Ugh, I hate freezing rain! Not only is it dangerous, it ruins the nice fresh snow we could be skiing on!freezing rain this morning. 28ish at the house. 34 at work. pouring rain. Supposed to be 50s later. the slush left from yesterday's storm kept me from rolling off the road. fun times! then freezr tonight all over again.
you must be absolutely baking in this heat30 degrees outdoors and 60 degrees indoors.
It is too hot to be outsideyou must be absolutely baking in this heat , it's 55F outside and 65F inside and this is SoCal! Bright sunshine, no cloud in the sky, humidity at 35% so it feels cooler than it is. I'm wearing layers with a cashmere pullover on top and I'm still cold. Wimpy!
The buildings here in warm climates are not insulated at all, just the attics and there is not much of them, it's just an empty space above the ceilings. Where it's colder buildings are different but you'd have to ask one who lives there to ascertain how they build houses and apartments there. I'm still used to European way of building and consider the way they build in warm climates here as being ticky-tacky. In earthquake country this makes some sense, would not want brick walls to fall down on you. Lath and plaster has some give and will not just fall. Really tall building made from steel and rebar and glass and concrete are usually on rollers so that they can withstand the rolling motion of an earthquake. and they do "bend" a bit. Although I do wonder about adobe which is solid clay mostly and that does not fall down either, but nobody builds with adobe anymore, it's considered to be "native" kind of building, cool in the summer, warm in the winter and the walls are really thick. People here either have heaters attached to the walls running on gas or electricity, or central heat with outlets in every room, and fireplaces mostly for looks, space heaters (electric), or they have propane or gas heaters also attached to walls, some have "pebble stoves' which burn a kind of wood pressed into pebbles and leave very little ash. Some places, mostly in the East , they burn oil to keep warm and way out in the sticks they still have wood burning stoves for heat, some burn coal or fire places with either logs or gas logs. most people will not put up with temps under 70 to be comfortable and over 72 in the summer when they run the air conditioners or at least fans. yes, people are spoiled here and do not put up with extreme temps if they can help it.It is too hot to be outside
I guess there is not very heavy insulation in buildings there? My house is not very well insulated to our standards, but it does not get much colder than 60F, floor is almost at same temp all the time and near ceiling it is bit hotter after burning wood in stove, but slowly temp near ceiling goes near what it is at floor and does not decrease much from there.
I think insulation would save AC running costs, but I guess in earthquake insulation might get shoved out from the walls, it is soft though, until few hundred pounds of it sits on your chest that is!The buildings here in warm climates are not insulated at all, just the attics and there is not much of them, it's just an empty space above the ceilings. Where it's colder buildings are different but you'd have to ask one who lives there to ascertain how they build houses and apartments there. I'm still used to European way of building and consider the way they build in warm climates here as being ticky-tacky. In earthquake country this makes some sense, would not want brick walls to fall down on you. Lath and plaster has some give and will not just fall. Really tall building made from steel and rebar and glass and concrete are usually on rollers so that they can withstand the rolling motion of an earthquake. and they do "bend" a bit. Although I do wonder about adobe which is solid clay mostly and that does not fall down either, but nobody builds with adobe anymore, it's considered to be "native" kind of building, cool in the summer, warm in the winter and the walls are really thick. People here either have heaters attached to the walls running on gas or electricity, or central heat with outlets in every room, and fireplaces mostly for looks, space heaters (electric), or they have propane or gas heaters also attached to walls, some have "pebble stoves' which burn a kind of wood pressed into pebbles and leave very little ash. Some places, mostly in the East , they burn oil to keep warm and way out in the sticks they still have wood burning stoves for heat, some burn coal or fire places with either logs or gas logs. most people will not put up with temps under 70 to be comfortable and over 72 in the summer when they run the air conditioners or at least fans. yes, people are spoiled here and do not put up with extreme temps if they can help it.