Happy Summer!!
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@AndyD said in Happy Summer!!:
34c and high humidity! You must have a special room for the piano?
34C is our predicted high here as well today, and high humidity.
In terms of taking care of the piano, when I lived in Japan, I had my piano in a room with a mini split (an AC unit that sits up high on the wall and has an outdoor unit, so unlike a window unit, it’s super quiet, and the temps are super nice). So that worked out well.
Now, in the states, my houses have all had central air conditioning (which is very common) so all the rooms are basically the same in terms of temperature and humidity. These days, my piano room is sitting at about 24C and 40% relative humidity. This house is very consistent in temp and especially humidity. The two houses I lived in before this (one rental, one I owned) were much harder to manage in terms of humidity. But both had central air conditioning.
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This house stays a comfortable 23.3C with humidity staying around 50% when the air conditioner is enabled. It’s 8 years old now, but it was built for the climate and doesn’t require the a/c to run much to maintain the indoor temperature.
No piano any more. I sold it to another piano forum member (Bongwater Q. Liberalstein
) after my daughter got married and moved to the Midwest. I wasn’t playing it hardly at all and it was just taking up space. -
In Penang all my relatives have it, certainly every bedroom has a unit. My inlaws piano was barely playable. On advice I now pkeep my Bluthner at 52%
Incidentally, the only home in the UK that might have had aircon was the Westminster flat of Bob Gaskins, but I can't be sure.
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We're getting snow above 5,000 ft. Winter storm warning for Glacier National Park. This is why I never plant the tomatoes before the solstice and I'm also glad I haven't yet washed and put away the winter horse blankets.
This morning we have super fresh air from all the heavy rains we've had the past two nights and a brisk, cold wind out of the north. So invigorating! I love getting up early on June mornings like this one and going out to feed. It's so very Montana.
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Yes, I noticed it on my planner. We've had summer weather for about a month now, anyway. Very hot late spring/ early summer.
I'm in negotiations with my brother to borrow $10,000 or otherwise ask our cousin to advance it to me because the only realistic option is a new roof before all of the interior ceiling come crashing down while flooding my entire home.
A person could well die in this structure during a hurricane. My preferred option is to move into a long stay motel but they only offer day rates around her. My cousin is suggesting it could be October 2 before I can move.
I'm going swimming today because my back is killing me.
It will be basically low '90's from 12 p.m.- 5 p.m.
The NWS High Heat Advisory has been up for more days than I can remember.
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Yesterday, and again just now, I saw a robin with its beak open, looking like it is panting. Turns out he/she may well be doing just that:
https://birdsinthetree.com/do-birds-pant/
I have four bird baths in the back yard and I'm changing the water twice a day. It needs to get itself to one of them to cool off....
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93 F.
I know it's a "forecast" but they're wrong all the time. They said it would rain at 4 p.m. It didn't. They said it would only get up to 91 F. That didn't happen. I can't count the days when they said it would rain but didn't. I think their computer models have certain biases built in. I guess could think of it as erring on the side of caution although I don't see any reason I should.
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Was at a family birthday party in a park in Connecticut yesterday--temps in the 90s F. A man not of our party collapsed from the heat and was taken away by ambulance. I myself wore a hat and stayed out of the sun but after a few hours of supervising kids from the side of the pool I was done for and had to cool off with an ice pack to the back of the neck.
Be careful out there.
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I'm trying to imagine how uncomfortable it must be when the temperature in shade is the same as body temperature!
Summers over here for now but Friday night it was 75f at 2am inside our house, and I was seriously considering sleeping in the garden
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@AndyD said in Happy Summer!!:
apart from the mossies
Ha! Their American cousins are referred to as skeeters.
after a few hours of supervising kids from the side of the pool I was don
@rustyfingers I really couldn't stay outside for more than 10 or 15 minutes yesterday. Heat indices (combination of temperature and humidity) here were pushing 110 and will again today.
Hope the guy who collapsed is OK...
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Sounds nice!
One of my fondest memories is sleeping on the screened in “sleeping porch” at my grandmother’s house in Minneapolis. A design trend that deserves to come back IMHO.
@Steve-Miller my grandmother had one too
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What is a heat dome?
https://www.npr.org/2025/06/24/g-s1-74358/heat-dome-hot-weather-explained
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It got to 102F in NYC the last couple of days. We do have an A/C for the bedroom but we put it in storage for the cold months. Drinking plenty of water. The climate control system under the piano does its thing well. I dare not go out to ride my bike till the temperature drops.
