I don’t know how much longer I can survive without an a/c in the summer heat
The summer last year was intense, but not quite as bad as this year is with our fourth straight week of 100 degree temperatures.
My dogs usually love to live outside during the day, but even they are getting sick of the humid heat.
We live fairly close to the equator compared to the rest of my country, so we are incredibly hot right now on a level that most people aren’t used to. You can’t just rely on the exact temperature outside and what the heat index appears to be, as the UV intensity is another variable altogether. And the average UV intensity on a random summer day is getting worse as climate change worsens. I know that we’ve always had worse radiant heat than the rest of the country, but it is genuinely worse here now than when I was a kid. It gets so insanely hot in this region throughout the summer that I genuinely do not know how someone would survive without air conditioning. Your house would inevitably be in the 80s and the humidity would be obscenely high too. That’s simply a combination I wouldn’t want to encounter. Your indoor climate conditions are important if you don’t want rampant mold growth or want to risk the possibility of heat stroke if there was a significant heat wave bringing temperatures in the low 100s. I have had to go without an air conditioner for the past week while I wait on repairs from the HVAC company. Sadly, their technicians are completely swamped with service calls and can’t get to my repair request until Thursday. That means two more days of hot summer heat with no air conditioning at home.