Climate Change? Nahhh ...

There ya go.

 

I am warm-natured and do not do well in the South Plains summer. I like it cold. I set the winter thermostat at 62ºF and stay comfortable until I turn in.

Mid-30s, dry and no wind is perfect weather. That happens maybe 2 days a year if I'm lucky.

I've grudgingly acclimated to the daily near 100ºF highs between Independence Day and Labor Day, but my AC bill has gotten higher with every year.

 

I’ve lived there during winter. It wasn’t that bad.

 

If memory serves Sandy came very late in the season for a northern storm. As water warms because of global warming the size of the hurricane zone will increase and the length of the season will expand.

 

I keep my place at 64 degrees during the winter and live fine just wearing hoodies around the house. Learned my lesson the hard way when I first moved here five years ago. Gas heat, older, drafty place with radiators. Kept it at 70 and my gas bill was outrageous. I keep a tower space heater in the bedroom and run that at night, but I can live with 64 if it keeps the gas bill reasonable.

 

66 degrees is heaven. Half the reason I married my wife is she is a fellow polar bear. Every woman I dated wanted it 75, which would’ve ended in all my shirts having yellow stains in the pits and around the collars and divorce.

We have electric heat (IN THE FUCKING CEILING) so it’s going to stay in the 60’s no matter what.

 

Usually we're at 67 in the winter, with it lowering automatically to 64 at night. But it's an old (over 50 years) house with draft issues, so during real cold snaps, like today, we turn it up to 68 to counteract the problem.

 

When I lived north, I turned my thermostat to 60 at night. It was great to sleep like that. But you bet your ass I turned up the thermostat first thing. I kept it as 68 when I was awake, but typically I wore sweats and cuddled under a blanket when I was watching TV.

 

My house has the very aesthetic look of a vaulted living room ceiling. Unfortunately it makes keeping the downstairs at a good temperature impossible at night. We set the heat at 65 but it roasts upstairs to almost 80 to get downstairs heated. Makes it fun to sleep at night.

 

Good Lord I couldn’t stand it. My thermostat is at 70 in the winter, and that’s me sacrificing when I’d prefer it at 72.

 

We're at 21.5 in the winter and 26 in the summer.

Took her about five seconds to change the settings to Celsius when the new system was installed.