I nearly died in the PNW Heatdome a few years back.
In roughly a week, I lost 10 pounds, purely from sweating.
In that week, I don’t think it ever got under 85 degrees in my apartment. For several days it was never under 95. And thats 24/7, including nights.
That’s with mylar/space blankets reflecting heat out of the windows, and with the portable AC unit I could afford.
Its not that common for apartments to have any AC solution in the PNW, because normally, for the past 100 years, yeah summer is hot, but not that hot, and most importantly, if it is exceptionally hot, its just for one day, then its either less hot the next day, or is even overcast and rains/drizzles a bit.
Oh and that Heatdome also featured all of the smoke from regional wildfires just… pooling, basically, in certain areas, so I also had to ramshackle an air furnace filter and a box fan together.
You needed a gas mask to safely be outside for more than 15-30 minutes.
… I don’t live there any more, but apparently what’s going on now is… basically every river in the state is flooding at historical levels, at the same time.
Yeah. Climate is broken. Its only gonna get worse.
I nearly died in the PNW Heatdome a few years back.
In roughly a week, I lost 10 pounds, purely from sweating.
In that week, I don’t think it ever got under 85 degrees in my apartment. For several days it was never under 95. And thats 24/7, including nights.
That’s with mylar/space blankets reflecting heat out of the windows, and with the portable AC unit I could afford.
Its not that common for apartments to have any AC solution in the PNW, because normally, for the past 100 years, yeah summer is hot, but not that hot, and most importantly, if it is exceptionally hot, its just for one day, then its either less hot the next day, or is even overcast and rains/drizzles a bit.
Oh and that Heatdome also featured all of the smoke from regional wildfires just… pooling, basically, in certain areas, so I also had to ramshackle an air furnace filter and a box fan together.
You needed a gas mask to safely be outside for more than 15-30 minutes.
… I don’t live there any more, but apparently what’s going on now is… basically every river in the state is flooding at historical levels, at the same time.
Yeah. Climate is broken. Its only gonna get worse.