It's Hot

And it's going to be hot for a week to come.

This past week the daily high temperature has been somewhere between 30°C and 38°C, and the minimums between 17°C and 22°C. To keep the temperature in the house tolerable we keep the windows open overnight, and close them in the morning when the outside temperature is higher than the inside temperature. This is working well, the temperature in the house remaining between 22°C and 24°C.

The forecast for the coming week at 08:50 this morning

The western wall of our house is also unfortunately the longest wall. It absorbs a lot of heat directly from the sun, and as there is no shade and we're surrounded by roads and buildings, heat reflected from hard surfaces. The temperature there can be really toasty, and unfortunately this is the temperature of the air that enters the house if we open the back door.

This was the back door temperature on Friday last week.

The insulation installed last year is really doing its job. Whereas in previous heatwaves the heat absorbed by the western wall has raised the temperature in the bedroom to the level where we can't sleep, this year (with the aid of a fan) the temperature hasn't yet been an issue.

For those of you still dealing in the old money here's a converter.