"dsi1" > wrote in message
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> On Saturday, July 23, 2016 at 8:33:20 AM UTC-10, Roy wrote:
>> On Saturday, July 23, 2016 at 11:49:15 AM UTC-6, KenK wrote:
>> > "Julie Bove" > wrote in news:nmup2g$jrc$1@dont-
>> > email.me:
>> >
>> > > Apparently Washington state is the only state that escaped the high
>> > heat
>> > > today.
>> >
>> > I'm having my own private high heat this past month. About 6/15 The
>> > 100K+
>> > AZ town in live near had a week-long heat wave, around 115. Then it
>> > returned to normal - high 90s, low 100s, once in a while low teens. Out
>> > here in the farmland where I live, about 2 miles west of town, it's
>> > consistently been around 15 degrees above theirs since then. They
>> > report
>> > 100 on the radio weather report, 1 get 115. Yesterday it was 113 there,
>> > 132 here. I'm afraid this is going to last all summer. This has never
>> > happened before - the temperature in both places was always close to
>> > the
>> > same. Must be a very local phenomena, I've seen no mention in the
>> > newspaper. My usual source of cooling, evaporative cooler, just blows
>> > hot
>> > air - the water in it nust be too hot to cool the air. Very strange,
>> > Very
>> > miserable.
>> >
>> > No, it's not a defective thermometer, all three of my outside
>> > thermometers agree.
>> >
>> Evaporator coolers compound the problem by releasing even more moisture
>> into the air. If you had a proper air conditioner you would experience
>> less discomfort.
>> ====
>
> It depends. My in-law's cooler works swell in Oroville CA. That place is a
> tinderbox on the verge of exploding i.e., very dry. For them, the summer
> will probably be a long one.

Works well here too. The added moisture in the air is refreshing.