My first job was in Ayuthaya - and that sucked, the aircon was ancient and just wasn’t worth turning on… so I kept fans blasting and soon learned not to bother opening any doors or windows…
Fans and showers kept me going all day indoors - and between showers, damp shirts and spray bottles to get some effect from the fans blowing all that hot air at me
First summer here was a good 40C, and nearly killed me.
Given the actual amount of power needed to cool a room, without a proper heat pump it’s all a bit useless… though I never had a swamp cooler, anything using power inside the house without a radiator outside is just increasing the overall temperature.
I also keep the house shut up tight now in the hot season… we have a plastic kiddy pool which generally gets filled up now, so we can just jump in on days when we’re downstairs with no air running.
If you can get some good wind outside, then a fine spray is nicer than a shower, some restaurants put up plastic piping with fine holes, it doesn’t get you very wet - but with a breeze/fans it’s very good.
latent heat of evaporation is much over looked - i have a simple basin filled with water (doesn’t have to be cold), an impromptu frame in it with a small towel over it, ends in the water, and a fan blowing over it - drops the local air temp by a couple of degrees so helps keep the edge off in reality. It takes a lot of energy to go from one state (liquid) to another (gas), hence the cooling effect (same principle of how a fridge works, albeit a different liquid/gas). Oh, and when i didn’t have electric and it was 40 with a light breeze, beer bottles in socks in a tray of water in the shade with a light wind would cool it by quite a few degrees, and you can’t beat cold beer when its hot!
If you like really spicy food, hot and humid is the best weather for it. While your mouth will be on fire,1 the rest of your body will feel much cooler.
Also, it should go without saying, but stay hydrated.
1 and possibly the… southern end, too, depending on the particular source of spiciness… Really strong peppers like Bhut Jolokia are generally safe from hot exhaust, but certain curry spice mixes are definitely not.
This is the logic. Spicy foods causes excessive sweating, due to which body becomes cooler.
As I am not native from the state where I am residing now, hence, many restaurants are out of our taste. Here people eat extremely spicy foods, which burns out the mouth.
Honestly what I do is have a hot shower (yes hot), don’t dry, just put on ur clothes. Wearing a bit wet preferably cotton clothes and water evaporation will keep you cool for a while. Repeat as needed!
Stick a small fan in front of that ice to draw cool air to yourself. That worked here a year ago in June when we had 105F instead of 65F (Pacific Northwest).
Absolutely. Every little roadside cantina in the mountains between Chilpancingo & Acapulco serves the spiciest food I’ve ever eaten–and I grew up on Mexican & Tex-Mex. You’ll see the locals parked there with their burros in the evenings.
foods, which burns out the mouth.
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The human body is weird!
At least I am off work this week, the building I work in is like a storage heater and the windows open only a few inches!!