It’s been six days of relentless heat and I am exhausted. We’re finally getting a break today. We reached our high of 91° around 10:00 this morning. I’m really not obsessed with the weather, but we don’t have functioning air conditioning, I work from home, and I have a sixteen-and-a-half year old dog. A six day heat wave, where temperatures hover in the upper 90’s to lower 100’s, becomes miserable as the heat builds.
It would be ok if we hit our high temperature in the late afternoon, and then began to drop, cooling overnight. It would be ok if this house didn’t absorb the heat and feel like a sweat box by 3:00 each day. It would be ok if my pets didn’t look at me in their stretched out “I’m so hot, I might die” poses like I enjoy torturing them. Don’t they see that I put a bowl of water in each room so they wouldn’t have to exert themselves too much? Do they know how much more time it takes to fill four extra water bowls?
The first few nights weren’t terrible. I was able to get the house cooled to the low 70’s each night and was still able to sleep. The problem came when the temperatures increased the last few days, making it harder to cool overnight. On Friday morning, the indoor temp was 80°, on Saturday morning it was 84°, and today it was 88° at 6:30. Last night was miserable with sleep nearly impossible. When I went to bed, it was still 95° inside the house. I woke at least once an hour and finally noticed it was starting to cool down somewhere around 4 a.m. I’m exhausted. My body aches, my shoulders are tight, my eyes tired and my mind fuzzy. It will pass. It’s early evening and we’ve had a few showers to lower the temperature even more. Tonight will cool into the low 70’s and I will sleep.
Take the 52 west 