Ok, I'm hot, need my air conditioning AND my fan blowing right on me........

[a kennedy]

We have our air temp set at 78. What do you all have your set at??? It’s going to be in the 90’s for the next 2, TWO, damn weeks. 🥵 🥵 🥵

[Ohio Joe]

1. We use a swamp cooler here in Colorado - nt

[uncle ray]

25. 60's ranch house in colorado

i'm along the front range, house runs north-south. i insulated the crap out of the attic, and have great west-east cross flow. long porches on both long sides for shade, and garage on the south end. it's a perfect setup for the area! windows open at night to cool the house down, then close all windows and curtains in the morning before it heats up. the house stays cool all day until about 3-4 when it gets a little warm, maybe 78-80 on a 95+ day. take a nap, then wake up at dinner time and open the windows and doors up for the cool evening breeze.

i realize this doesn't work in florida!

[drray23]

2. ours is set at 73

it's high 90's . Today was only 87 because we had storms

[KentuckyWoman]

3. I managed to get rid of the inner furnace in my 30's.

They had to take out everything including the kitchen sink ... so to speak. I had cancer.
About 6 months of ridiculous sweats - mostly in summer ... back in the days when no one had AC. I spent a lot of time sitting down in the root cellar.

I'm not much for AC so in hot spells, I do still miss the root cellar. I do my best keeping the shades closed when the sun is hitting those windows.

[beaglelover]

4. We set it at 76. It's been around 100 degrees the past few

Days and that will continue through this week. But it does cool down nicely at night here in North Hollywood, CA.

[tblue37]

12. 77 plus a fan.

[beaglelover]

13. Yeah we have ceiling fans in the bedrooms and office.

They really help a lot especially at bedtime.

[smirkymonkey]

5. I am at 69 right now.

I had the AC off today while I was working and it was fine inside, but I went out to do some errands after work and the dew point here is 65, which makes it very uncomfortable even though the temps are only in the 70's.

However after walking around for a bit in that kind of humidity, you start feeling sweaty and unpleasantly overheated.

[Murphyb849]

24. Me too and our dew point 65 🥵

[jpak]

6. It never got over than 68 here in Maine today

[Happy Hoosier]

7. Set at 74

No sweating in my house if I can help it.

[at140]

8. Depends on outside temp!

In humid Florida, the objective is to run just enough A/C to reduce house humidity.
After the A/C removes the humidity in 7-8 minutes, I turn up the setting to 10 degrees below outside temp. So if it is 90, I set at 80. If it is 85 outside, I set it at 75, but never below 75.

[Wingus Dingus]

9. 74 during the day, 72 at night.

[tavernier]

10. I live in the tropics.

Fans, fans, fans are helpful. Stir the air. Some small rice pillows in the freezer are good depending on the size of your freezer. Try to sleep apart from partners and/or animals to eliminate increased heat exchange. Strip and sleep nude… keep pj’s or nightgown close by if you are interrupted in the night. Windows open to catch night breezes if the AC isn’t working.

Enjoy an A/C free sleep… it’s pretty lovely.

[marybourg]

11. I'm comfortable at 80, unless I've been working, or it's

unusually humid. Normally humidity is about 7% - 12%.

[Blue_true]

14. Put a large open container of clean water about 12 inches behind the fan.

Where the fan take in air. You can also aim the outlet of the fan at a bare wall and turn it to high. Both methods should provide a cooling effect on the air that meets your body, thereby cooling you more.

[Luciferous]

15. 73 during the day, 70 at night. I can't sleep if it's too hot.

[MissB]

16. 72

But I’m a princess.

I melt in heat.

[moonscape]

17. Have no a/c to set, but it's

68 in the house and 59 outside at 7 PM. On the CA coast. Not fun when we have 90 degree days in late summer with no a/c though. Or like last year with all the fires and having to keep things closed up.

I know, I know, we’re temp wimps.

[keithsw]

18. We're in the

Blue ridge mountains of North Carolina. I haven't turned my air conditioner on yet this year. High today was 72

[susanr516]

19. On the TX Gulf Coast

We run the AC at 77 until we go to bed. Then we drop it to 75. If they put us under emergency warning of high electric use, we'll up to 80 during the day and 78 at sundown. Of course, we have ceiling fans in the kitchen, LR, and every bedroom and they run 24/7. We also have 4 box fans that we run. Like the folks in FL, we use the AC to control the humidity more than the heat. If it gets below 75 inside, I'm cold. Of course, I've lived here over 40 years, so I'm pretty acclimated to hot and humid. July and Aug. are still tough, though. We can go 60 days straight where the low temp never drops below 78, and that's with over 90% humidity. In the last 3 days, our temp hasn't been under 81 and the heat index never dropped below 89. It's depressing to step outside at 6 am into a sauna.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

20. 68 at night. 70 in the day.

[Catherine Vincent]

21. 79 during the day and 75 at night

Sorry but I do not like getting hot while sleeping.

[Texaswitchy]

22. That is usual Texas summer here.

Today was like 103.

My AC stays on 78.

The fan is a good thing to use.

[mnhtnbb]

23. 74 and I use ceiling fans.

[DET]

26. Can't Tolerate Heat

I set the thermostat to 65-66 in the summer here in the DC suburbs. And I turn on the fan at night while I’m sleeping. We spent a fortune upgrading to a more powerful AC system a few years ago, and it is worth it. I simply can’t tolerate heat and humidity - hives, nausea, faintness, etc. I grew up in a temperate climate with cool ocean breezes, and it’s been really hard dealing with the oppressive heat and humidity here, even after several decades. The heat and the traffic are the two things I would change.

[sakabatou]

27. I just have a fan on. There's no central AC