***Official 2025 Weather Thread***

[SaraV]

Air conditioning is the greatest invention of man, you will not convince me otherwise.

Coin flip between AC and indoor plumbing.

 

[BoxsterCy]

The Stewie forecast: "Warm out today. Warm yesterday. Even warmer today."

Boxster version: "Warm yesterday. Hot today. Even hotter tomorrow."

 

[BoxsterCy]

Damn I am old. Yes. My mother would lay a white sheet on the wooden floor and we would lay in front of a fan. Yes the fan was electric and when you talked into the metal blades you sounded funny. I think the white sheet was just a play to make us think it was a cooler temperature than a different color. About 1975 Dad made a place in the living room wall for a built in 220V window unit. It cooled the downstairs, I slept in the our fold up camper all summer. The fans were essential and the control knobs would fall off and get lost and the metal gaurds would rattle.

Yeah, our first A/C was a used 220V. Thing was a beast and weighed a ton so it had to go on the first floor. Was a major job each year to get it into place. One year my dad used my little red wagon to try and wheel it out from the garage to the house and it buckled the wagon.

 

[stormchaser2014]

It's not too bad in the shade honestly.

 

[CyCrazy]

It's not too bad in the shade honestly.

Your right the shade in my basement is great.

 

[Entropy]

Air conditioning is the greatest invention of man, you will not convince me otherwise.

 

[CychiatricWard]

Damn I am old. Yes. My mother would lay a white sheet on the wooden floor and we would lay in front of a fan. Yes the fan was electric and when you talked into the metal blades you sounded funny. I think the white sheet was just a play to make us think it was a cooler temperature than a different color. About 1975 Dad made a place in the living room wall for a built in 220V window unit. It cooled the downstairs, I slept in the our fold up camper all summer. The fans were essential and the control knobs would fall off and get lost and the metal gaurds would rattle.

Oh, I’m no stranger to no AC. Grandparents house all summer in southern Iowa, windows open, hot to sleep, lots of fans blowing, and it was fine, just what we knew. But I love AC damnit!

 

[dafarmer]

I was north of Walnut going to Prarie Rose and some of the beans were sprayer burnt or really looked crappy, I dont know which. The taller beans looked better. The wells north of Avoca are still not producing what they should. That rural water district is hurting bad.

In our neighborhood, no rain makes them look crappy. 6” under normal for the year and crops not growing.

 

[Turn2]

I was north of Walnut going to Prarie Rose and some of the beans were sprayer burnt or really looked crappy, I dont know which. The taller beans looked better. The wells north of Avoca are still not producing what they should. That rural water district is hurting bad.

That isn’t the gall midge area, is it?

 

[Cyclonepride]

It's not too bad in the shade honestly.

I was thinking about calling off our tee time but the wind helped a ton. I’ve played rounds in the upper 80’s that felt hotter because it was still

 

[CyCrazy]

Oh, I’m no stranger to no AC. Grandparents house all summer in southern Iowa, windows open, hot to sleep, lots of fans blowing, and it was fine, just what we knew. But I love AC damnit!

That was my grandparents house and they lived in Southern Illinois.

 

[NWICY]

My daughter woke up this morning with snow on her Jeep. She is 30 miles SE of Banff.

Saw that going to the sun road in Glacier NP, was closed because of snow.

 

[dafarmer]

That isn’t the gall midge area, is it?

Not yet, lack of rain

 

[NWICY]

Oh, I’m no stranger to no AC. Grandparents house all summer in southern Iowa, windows open, hot to sleep, lots of fans blowing, and it was fine, just what we knew. But I love AC damnit!

Grew up with no air, box fans in the windows blowing in or out depending on the wind direction. A couple extra box fans and maybe a oscillating fan to move air between rooms.
Current home windows AC with a pedestal fan to move the air down the hall and into the bedrooms

 

[4cy16]

That was my grandparents house and they lived in Southern Illinois.

Carbondale?

 

[KidSilverhair]

The house I grew up in never had AC - not central air, not window units, nothing. Fans all day long, fans in the windows all night long. We just had to put up with it.

My wife’s folks also never had it in their house until the summer of 1995 - I had a work trip to Albuquerque and my wife took our kids to her folks’ place in Boone … when it was just about the most tropical rain-foresty miserable it had been in Iowa in forever. She complained enough that they put in central air not long after that.

 

[CyCrazy]

Carbondale?

Close Pinckneyville, That was a hell of a guess. Ha

 

[JP4CY]

Didn't have AC growing up either.
I remember us going to bed with cold washcloths helping cool us down.

 

[cycub51]

My in-laws house doesn’t have air to this day. My FIL is too cheap to run one even if they have it. I avoid going there in the summer like the plague.

They are moving to a new place this fall so will be interesting to see how much/if they use it

 

[cyclimate]

Every house is different of course, but older homes, particularly in warmer climates, were often designed with some amount of airflow in mind. So you might not have AC, but air would flow through a house, potentially assisted by fans.

With AC, that design has changed. Homes are designed as sealed boxes to keep the conditioned air in and there are fewer considerations for moving outside air through a home.

I'm sure it would still be absolutely awful in weather like today, but not nearly as awful as a modern home with its AC out would be.

And houses were built with porches. Cooking occurred in summer kitchens to avoid heat buildup.