WTN: How to survive in a heat-wave...

Coming home from town today, I realized that I hadn't opened my windows when I left in the morning - a bad mistake when houses are built to keep the heat in and the temperatures have been around +30 for a few days. From 14:00 until sunset the sun shines right into my living room making the temperatures soar even further. I like heat, but this moist heat of over +40 inside was too much.

But I came up with a three-step self-help program to make such a situation bearable:

1) Drink some Moscato d'Asti.



This Spinetta Vigneto Biancospino 2008 seemed to help in making me feel better...

2) ...especially because I thought it best to leave my apartment and go sit on top of a hill overlooking the biggest "city" in Finland - in quotes because it is actually the most densely populated forest in the world.



3) Take Pevear & Volokhonsky's translation of Chekhov's stories while sipping a mineral, low alcohol, sweet and lively drop is guaranteed to make one feel whole again. Especially if one reads the early stories where Chekhov had a sense of humor and if one drinks one of the producers like this Spinetta or Saracco that isn't only sweet but had a lovely green-fruit and mineral touch to it too.

From 14:00 until sunset...

^^^^^ The sun is actually setting in Finland right now?

But I came up with a three-step self-help program to make such a situation bearable:

1) Drink some Moscato d'Asti.

Ah! Moscato and hot weather -- what a great pairing, Otto! Great view from that hill, BTW.

Mark Lipton

From 14:00 until sunset...

^^^^^ The sun is actually setting in Finland right now?

No, which is probably the biggest problem. Temperature dropped to 20 outside yet despite curtains closed and all windows open its still 35 inside!!!

We tropicals feel your pain!

We tropicals feel your pain!

Well, at least you have sunset!
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Very much a fan of the Spinetta Biancospino. It raises the pleasure bar just an important notch higher.

I feel your pain, Otto. It was 110 in inland Sacramento Valley yesterday. And 100 F right now And we drank cabernet and ate paella in an outdoor garden setting where it was 100 degrees Saturday night I like my little exurb, but I absolutely hate the inland climate-especially in summer. Even if it is a dry heat.

What's so frustrating is the fact that a mere 25 miles away, it is almost 20 degrees cooler. I need a new cottage in downtown Napa!

Coming home from town today, I realized that I hadn't opened my windows when I left in the morning - a bad mistake when houses are built to keep the heat in and the temperatures have been around +30 for a few days. From 14:00 until sunset the sun shines right into my living room making the temperatures soar even further. I like heat, but this moist heat of over +40 inside was too much.
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Good self help program. But your mistake wasn't not opening windows in morning, but having them closed in the first place. Houses that keep in heat should also keep it out. The idea is to open windows at night (even if night is very short!) and then to close in warmer daytime hours to keep out the warm air from outside. Curtains should of course be used to keep out direct sunlight. With winter heat retention being builder's ideal you probably have a dark roof, which makes it tougher, but I can pretty much guarantee that closing windows at night and opening in day is the wrong strategy!