Too low for high summer season, should be mid 20's to high 20's by now so that what I am getting here today was 25-26C, yesterday 26-27C so comfortable warm to wear just shorts and t-shirt off for couple of hours now back on this evening at 23.5C.

Too low for high summer season, should be mid 20's to high 20's by now so that what I am getting here today was 25-26C, yesterday 26-27C so comfortable warm to wear just shorts and t-shirt off for couple of hours now back on this evening at 23.5C.

It'll be a bit warmer today (as we won't be getting a repeat of yesterday's remarkable weather any time soon), but I did at least manage to trap some of that cooler air this morning, by using the old fan-on-patio trick to blow it inside. It'll warm up, of course, but it'll take longer for the dewpoint to rise.

Wednesday looks like being the warmest day of the working week, and I suspect I'll be wheeling out the a/c in the evening... it'll take a miracle to keep it below 25 upstairs!

It was very hard to get to 25C here indoors but now easily done and now already 25.5C.  Try visiting Philippines it a hell worst with humidity not the temperatures issue.  AC is a must need over there and i sleep in their room that have split type AC.

You would expect generally 20-22C, down to 18-20C in a cooler spell but it is well below that at 16.6C this morning.

Comparison with last year which illustrates the point made above with 2023 in red and 2024 in blue:

Even comparing with 2012 (wine colour) it was slightly warmer back then probably because we had at least had a spring with some warm, sunny weather as opposed the relentless grey chill we've been suffering for what seems like an eternity. Also we had two sunny afternoons of 20C on the 5th and 6th which were vastly superior to anything seen in this car crash of a month:

Be thankful you can sleep without having to use a/c, or waking up with a damp mattress and sheets sticking to you because of sweat. I don't think you realise just how cruddy it can be at this time of year! I still remember a few years back, when the hotel I use in Reading had no a/c due to their system baking... the rooms at this time of year used to be in the high 20s, and it was absolutely stifling.

No issues last night, though, it was 21 when I went to bed and I expect similar tonight. The dross sets in tomorrow onwards, when temperatures rise into the low to mid 20s it's much harder to get things comfortable of an evening.

Downstairs, I did manage to get it down to 16, briefly, this morning by the old "fan on the patio" trick. It's still a very pleasant 20C at the moment. There's a good deal of solar input at this time of year, of course; even on a mostly cloudy day like today the UV index still hits 6.

Bear in mind recommended indoor temperatures are 18C at night and 21C by day.

https://www.britishgas.co.uk/the-source/no-place-like-home/whats-the-ideal-home-temperature.html 

It seemed cold last night - at one point I put on a woolly hat and threw an extra rug on the bed! 14C now at 13.35hrs..

The perils of being older, I guess, and I don't mean that as an insult! I know my nan always used to moan about how cold it felt to her when she visited in the winter, then she'd clamp her clammy hand on my wrist to show me. That was in a room we'd heated to 24 or 25C... we would all be sweltering, she'd be complaining about the cold. She would have been in her 60s at the time.

The last time I needed anything other than my winter duvet was in the "Beast from the East" in 2018. My boiler decided to pack in just as it turned cold, and though I have a Calor gas fire for emergency use, you're not meant to use them when you're asleep. It's amazing how quickly a house like mine cools down when it's -4 with a breeze... I ended up using a convection heater, but that struggled just to heat my bedroom. I ended up having to use a blanket in addition to my duvet, and when I got up in the morning the room temperature was 7C. That *was* cold!

(To be fair, it was -12 outside... so a 19C temperature difference wasn't actually that bad! Here's the record from my weather station for that historic day, one of the coldest of my lifetime.

https://www.wunderground.com/dashboard/pws/ILEYSDOW1/graph/2018-02-28/2018-02-28/daily  )

A good 5c colder than I have ever recorded since starting in 1994.  Surprised it got up to 4.3c though on that day in 2018 for you.

Meanwhile indoors here after zero sunshine for two days and 14c Max's it is now 19c inside both upstairs and downstairs. 

14C here tonight if we are lucky. We turned on an electic heater today. Dismal.

How about to install the conservatory if you have a south facing garden?  The guy who install it told me many people are going for this and not the AC units.  Must be poor sales on AC units, fans and portable AC like Darren have.

Hi Jires. Hope you are keeping well. I was commenting on the unusually cool spell just now. We have gas central heating but we are not using it currently. With regard to heating, cooling and insulation - we are constrained by our listed-building status and can't do anything modern and clever that detracts from its historic "merits". A conservatory would be a definite NO. We have insulating blinds for windows and the roof is insulated too. We have a log burner - seldom used. We have just had all our windows refurbished to reduce draughts. We face east-west - so get the sun mornings and afternoons - which is a good thing. I'm not complaining - just grumbling!  😁

East and West also good for early and late afternoon and understood about the listed building rules, i been to Coombe Castle and it the same thing no modern stuff allowed including windows.

Facing east-west has the bonus of great rainbows - occasionally! 😁

Our house has large windows which helps when it is sunny, e.g 3 metres long and nearly 2 metres high in the living room.  Our ground floor extension also has a couple of skylight windows , next doors has a glass dome on theirs, these things probably all help when it is sunny/bright. 

I'll kick things off - it was 27.8 last night upstairs yesterday evening, and it's already 25 up there this morning (with the windows open).

I only find out last year when my wife visited some Filipino's homes and told me their houses are lot warmer than ours because they got conservatory so that get me thinking to install one.  That the main primary to heat up the house for free during prolonged cold summer weather and when it overcast it still go to low 20s and warm the house to same temps without feeling a chill like i did in previous cold summers.  Today reached 38C as the doors opened to the house and reached 30C first time in the living room since Sept 2023 heatwave.   Plus I used it for drying the washing now as I resent to put outside ever again and it dry fast.   All airvents on our windows are opened first time this year to have air circulation.

It’s around 23°C indoors with the windows open here. I certainly wouldn’t want it to be any warmer.

Out of curiosity, does anyone here have triple glazed windows and if so are they worth it (over doubled glazed)? 

30C indoors was awful - that was the upstairs temperature when I went to bed last night. All I can say is thank goodness for a portable a/c, it kept my room at 22 until I got fed up with the noise and turned it off.

It's presently 26C upstairs (25C in my bedroom) and 22C downstairs - windows (aside from my bedroom) were open all night too, but there's no wind.

As for triple glazing, the local company I bought my windows from 2 years ago advised it wasn't worth the extra here - the gain in soundproofing is minimal, and it would just make things even hotter indoors in the summer! For you, in a colder climate, it would give more benefits in terms of insulation.