During the last week of June, there was a crazy forecast. Sometimes the app, using Dark Sky, has an instability problem with far-future dates, but this wasn’t changing:
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For context, the normal high this time of year is 79. Low temperatures are typically 50s to low 60s, thus allowing us to use “Seattle Air Conditioning”, a box fan in the window. Typically, we put it in the window when:
- Daytime temperatures are above 75 and we anticipate cool evenings, such as the one below.
- The outside temperature is within 3 degrees of inside temperature. By the end of the day, the inside gets very humid and drier, albeit warmer air helps improve the comfort.
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But, alas, this shit was real:
![109F feels like 113F, about 40F higher than normal](https://www.wt8p.com/wp-content/uploads/hotweathre.jpg)
The City of Sammamish set up a “cooling center” in its City Hall that had otherwise been closed due to COVID-19 and extended it into the evening because it wasn’t going to cool down. I availed myself for the day, tethering my laptop to my phone’s cellular service so I could get work done. Eventually, I had to head home.
The car didn’t like it, either. My black steering wheel inside my black hybrid was too hot to touch.
![](https://www.wt8p.com/wp-content/uploads/64661680297__97C7D624-83B4-4E17-B9C1-E0BC3AE52682.jpeg)
Our upstairs bedroom was 91F by 10pm. It eventually cooled down to the low 80s by morning.