I'm barely using AC this year

It's not that it hasn't been hot and humid - I'm sitting here and it's in the 90's. But ever since I replaced my crappy old blinds with these swish new cellular ones, I've barely had to use the AC. The blinds have a honeycomb design which traps heat. They're light filtering, which means they still let some light in. But when I have them closed with the windows open behind, they really keep the heat at bay. It's weird how well they work. I'm not saying it's "cool" in here on a 90 degree day, but it's at a level below which I don't feel the need to flip on the air conditioning. I must be saving 100's of $$$'s this year. 

I'd like more AC around here...  It's all DC lately.
(Or is it?)

BobF
I'm always using AC this year ...

Same here......(in FL) can't even open the windows as all the creepy crawlies/mosquitos/flying thingies all rush in.   

BobF
I'm always using AC this year ...

 Yup....and will be until mid September.  

I've taken one of my duffle coats off...

Beepster
It's actually been reasonably comfortable in my sweatbox of an apartment this summer. I am thankful for that. Last year was VICIOUS to the point I'm pretty sure I had heatstroke a few times.
 
It's still been warm/humid but I haven't seen my thermostat readout go above 85F (still gotta figure out how to switch it to Celsius). It was regularly up around 90F last year before humidex.
 
Also they closed down the men's shelter on the block so I can have my windows open without having to listen to idiotic hobo brawls in the middle of the night.
 
It took a few years but this building has become a reasonably decent place to live.

It's easy.
The temperature T in degrees Celsius (°C) is equal to the temperature T in degrees Fahrenheit (°F) minus 32, times 5/9:
T_(°C) = (T_(°F) - 32) × 5/9
or
T_(°C) = (T_(°F) - 32) / (9/5)
or
T_(°C) = (T_(°F) - 32) / 1.8

To use an example that makes it easy to understand

Convert 68 degrees Fahrenheit to degrees Celsius:
T_(°C) = (68°F - 32) × 5/9 = 20 °C

Kelvin is more precise.

Zargg
It's easy.
The temperature T in degrees Celsius (°C) is equal to the temperature T in degrees Fahrenheit (°F) minus 32, times 5/9:
T_(°C) = (T_(°F) - 32) × 5/9
or
T_(°C) = (T_(°F) - 32) / (9/5)
or
T_(°C) = (T_(°F) - 32) / 1.8

To use an example that makes it easy to understand

Convert 68 degrees Fahrenheit to degrees Celsius:
T_(°C) = (68°F - 32) × 5/9 = 20 °C

lol... yeah I posted pretty much that same equation last year. I've gotten used to the F readout now though and only really get obsessive about it once I start "melting" (eg: anything above approx 85F/28C plus humidity).
 
I'd really like to get one of those floor unit air conditioners (the ones where you run a hose to a window and seal it up) but the way the windows are in here and the lack of room for the floor unit it just isn't really doable.
 
Also, although they've significantly dropped in price, they're still about $300 for a reasonably decent one... and that's totally ignoring the electricity costs to run it (which is not included in my rent).
 
So I just try to manage the temp in the apt in other ways... and when it gets too crazy I either sweat it out or just try to stop moving (if I start feeling sick).
 
:-)

Beepster

Zargg
It's easy.
The temperature T in degrees Celsius (°C) is equal to the temperature T in degrees Fahrenheit (°F) minus 32, times 5/9:
T_(°C) = (T_(°F) - 32) × 5/9
or
T_(°C) = (T_(°F) - 32) / (9/5)
or
T_(°C) = (T_(°F) - 32) / 1.8

To use an example that makes it easy to understand

Convert 68 degrees Fahrenheit to degrees Celsius:
T_(°C) = (68°F - 32) × 5/9 = 20 °C

lol... yeah I posted pretty much that same equation last year. I've gotten used to the F readout now though and only really get obsessive about it once I start "melting" (eg: anything above approx 85F/28C plus humidity).
 
I'd really like to get one of those floor unit air conditioners (the ones where you run a hose to a window and seal it up) but the way the windows are in here and the lack of room for the floor unit it just isn't really doable.
 
Also, although they've significantly dropped in price, they're still about $300 for a reasonably decent one... and that's totally ignoring the electricity costs to run it (which is not included in my rent).
 
So I just try to manage the temp in the apt in other ways... and when it gets too crazy I either sweat it out or just try to stop moving (if I start feeling sick).
 
:-)

Did you use this as well?
http://www.rapidtables.com/convert/temperature/how-fahrenheit-to-celsius.htm
 

michaelhanson

Zargg
I've stopped using our wood burning oven..
Does that count?

Growing up in northern MN, I would cut fire wood late Summer and through the Fall, so we could burn it all Winter long in our wood burning furnace.  Red Oak was my favorite to split.  When the Winter temperatures would drop to zero or less, the Red Oak would split cleanly in half with just a good sharp pop of the wood maul.  
 
Now I have the opposite extreme.  Just looked at the temperature and it is 99.  It should cool down to 85 by 10pm, though.  

I grew up in the northern part of Norway, and remember hailstorms in July.. Not often, but...
And of course being snowed in the house during winter. Having to jump out of 2nd floor to shuffle my way to the door to let the rest out. (I was an easily persuaded little brother )
Here "down south" where I live now, there are barely seasonal changes in comparison 

michaelhanson

Zargg
I've stopped using our wood burning oven..
Does that count?

Growing up in northern MN, I would cut fire wood late Summer and through the Fall, so we could burn it all Winter long in our wood burning furnace.  Red Oak was my favorite to split.  When the Winter temperatures would drop to zero or less, the Red Oak would split cleanly in half with just a good sharp pop of the wood maul.  
 
Now I have the opposite extreme.  Just looked at the temperature and it is 99.  It should cool down to 85 by 10pm, though.  

Around these parts red oak is best to split, but it's hell on saws.