What do I do when my roommates won't turn the air conditioner on?
I'm renting out a shared upstairs room in a condo owned by a couple. My roommate and I agree it gets way too hot upstairs, but my landlords won't turn on the air. The other night I woke up in a sweat and saw that it was 85 degrees. It's the middle of Summer in Northridge, CA and I'm bloating up I am so hot in here. I've got a fan near as it can be to my open window, but I'm still hurting all over from the heat. I'm not used to this and I don't know what to say to them if anything at all.
Extremely hot summer + no air conditioning = bad case of acne?
I really really need help! I'm on vacation in Montreal and the weather is crazy!!! It's 30 degrees here all the time! The place I'm staying has no air conditioning and I have a problem with sweating too much! It's really hot and it's impossible to stay cool! And I'm starting to break out and the pimples are getting worse! I'm 14 and I've only had one pimple until now!!! Please help is there any way to get rid of them!?!?! And stay cool!?!?! In addition, I don't wear any make up except lip gloss and I wash my face everyday P.S my mom doesn't like buying skin products! Home-made facial masks???
Climatology: Why does the same interior temperature feel different in the summer or winter?
The response to seasonal change in temperature depends on what a person gets used to. This is called acclimatization, and the response is quite ideosyncratic.If you spend most of your time indoors and seldom brave the cold outside, your body will not acclimatize to the cold, rather, its comfort zone will remain a function of the thermostat setting for your abode. Any draft set in motion by the temperature differential between inside and outside air will give you a chill.If you spend a lot of time outdoors in the winter, your body will likely lower your physiological comfort zone in order to avoid a sweat upon exertion or when inside. This is partly due to wearing layers indoors, and partly to becoming acclimatized to the outdoors. In Salt Lake City I could shovel snow quite comfortably at 20 degrees F wearing only a hoodie and polyester sweat pants. When I came back inside to a 60 degree room I started to sweat profusely.Personally, I can’t stand the warm interior temperatures set for most American households and places of business during winter. And I throw open the windows of my apartment in winter quite frequently. This goes beyond acclimatization, it is a function of one’s own physiology. My body is set to prefer cool weather and warm clothes, with body heat keeping me in my comfort zone. I don’t feel uncomfortable walking around naked with my apartment temperature at 60 degrees F, but have to put on layers when sedentary for over an hour. I don’t think that response is commonplace in America, must be the Swedish in my bloodline.
What can i do to keep my chinchilla cool during a power failure?
Blowing a fan on a chinchilla does nothing. They do not sweat, so they do not cool with air blown on them. All it does is blow hot air around them. If you know that you are in danger of losing power for weeks at a time, you need to make other living arrangements for your chin should that happen. There is no way to keep a chin cool for a week using just chin chillers or frozen water bottles, or even a fan blowing on ice. That is a very, VERY temporary fix. I have a friend who lives down your way. She tells me that it gets unbearably hot down there during the summer months. Even now, she runs two a/c's in one room to keep her chins at an even moderately low level of heat and humidity. During short outages, people have been known to keep their chins in an air conditioned car while it's running. Obviously, that isn't going to be practical for a week. Someone suggested a generator. That's a good plan, but not for a fan. Get a big enough generator to support a 110 a/c for one very small room of the house. Even a bathroom would work. The smaller the room, the easier it is to cool. Generators really aren't horrifically expensive if you don't need a huge one. Start looking now and find one to have ready. A hotel is another option that many people I know have had to resort to, but it's obviously very expensive. It would be much cheaper just to buy the generator and have it ready. Other than that, seriously, there isn't any temporary fix for such high temperatures and humidity. You can try posting here, http://www.chins-n-hedgies.com, and see if anyone else has better ideas. But honestly, the generator is about the best one, with an a/c though, not a fan.
Humidity variation inside a room?
Yes and no it depends upon what type of humidity you are talking about. Absolute humidity id consistent while the relative humidity will vary. The RH or relative humidity is highly influnced by temperatur, so any variation in temperature will cause changed in Rh even though there is no other change in the quantity of moisture contained in the air. The relationship of temperature is exponential with respect to the RH. as such variations in temperature have a greater effect on high levels of RH . If you have an RH sensor that can respond quickly and is sensitive enough variations in rh due to temperature changes from floor to ceiling can be detected. However many methods of RH determiniation have slow response rates and are just incapable of such accurate measurements. Electronic Rh sensors which use a capacitive based sense element are capable of indicating and responding to these very small changes .