I thought it was a little cooler than last year. It is only 98F today, last year this same day it was 104F. I'm gonna have to get a sweater.

August and September are usually the hottest time here.
But we just had a couple of hot weeks and it's cooled off now.
Hoping it stays this way for a while, might get something done.

104!......won't that cook your Tater Tots!

The Cincinnati & Northern Kentucky area has been pretty darn hot, humid and wet for most of July.  Temperatures were often in the high 80's/low 90's, and it rained frequently....the hot weather slowed the grass down a bit - but supercharged the weeds!  If i was doing work outside - there was some major sweating/dripping going on.

So far....August is a bit cooler and drier.  For those who are coming up here in a couple weeks...the weather looks great!

It has just been ridiculously hot here for the last few weeks. My lawn is definitely paying the price for it. And yes, any time I consider doing some work on the bike or cars I back out of it unless it is absolutely necessary because within 2 to 3 minutes I am sweating profusely and dripping on whatever I am trying to work on. I removed the IAC from the car to clean it up and clean the throttle body (was not idleing properly), a 30 minute job approximately and when I finished I looked like someone had hosed me down. August is usually the hottest month in Houston. And not being in my thirties any more does not seem to help.

I was in Denver a few years ago and people were literally dying from the heat. I think it was around 95 with humidity in the single digits. That's called spring around here. I was actually comfortable. It truly is the humidity, not the heat, that gets to you.

Palm springs is nice in the winter, but I hear it gets windy.

If I could figure out a way to get a really small AC unit....that would be "cool"!

The small AC units that I see are really much larger than the little trailer would need, and they would cycle on/off a constantly.  If is was small enough to use my little Harbor Freight 1,00 watt generator that would be even better - but I suspect the little Chinese made generator wouldn't survive very long if you actually put it into regular use.

Dave wrote on 08/11/16 at 08:04:54:

Look for a dorm frig that peltier cooling unit.
mount it to the ceiling under a solar cell to run it.
Solar cell(s) shade the roof, leave an air gap.
I think you can reverse the poles for heating in winter.