I’ve lived in MS since I was 4 and work outside daily. 72 degrees is where I keep it. Winter, turn the heat down to 60 if you want!
I find people who live in the south keep the temps inside their house on the high side during the winter. If I set our thermostat over 68 I’m sweating. At 66 I’m walking around in shorts and T-shirt.
Since Professor Van Helsing has not yet put a stake through this thread, I will add my two cents.
The medical clinic I use has the parking lot covered with solar panels, they get electricity, I get to park in the shade.
RE house thermostat. I very mine anywhere from 68-76 degrees as related to humidity, low humidity, I get cold, high humidity, I get warm.
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My Mom keeps it at 78 in the winter. Drives my dad nuts. I can’t sleep at their house anymore because I wake up sweating.
Back when we first got married, my wife complained that she could see her breath one winter morning, so I had to turn our heat up some! We had those gas space heaters at the time, and if it wasn’t getting below freezing I’d just turn them off at night. I prefer a little too cold over a little too hot. Maybe I’ll follow the “snowbirds” leaving FL and migrate north for the summer when I retire.
I keep my a/c at either 73 or 74and my heat at 67 or 68.
Get a fan, that’s what I do. Mrs JT keeps the top floor at 78 during the summer and sets it up to 82 at night. I turn the fans on and it doesn’t bother me. That’s when we use the AC, which is rare. It has to be over 90 and humid for AC.
I just set things where I am comfortable. too cold raise the heat a little.
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I haven’t lived at Mom’s for 30 years lol. But, I try not to stay overnight in the summer!
Cannot keep it car related but our thermostat is so whacked, Set it to 80 or so in the summer for 72 degrees, 68 in the winter for 72 degrees. Play it by ear more or less, tried a fancy new thermostat without an adjuster for temp spans, the 70’s furnace would take mmaybe a minute or 2 of firing on and warmup, run for a couple of minutes, shut off and restart 5 minutes later.
I am rather insensitive to temperature, so Mrs. Triedaq sets the thermostat in the house and sets the temperature control in the car.
I am, however, sensitive to enclosed spaces where there isn’t a good air exchange rate. I really disliked teaching in classrooms in newer buildings where there was no control of the air exchange as there was in classrooms in older buildings where there were circulation units under the windows that mixed the inside air with outside air.
In automobiles, I remember the cars my parents owned where the heater was a box containing a radiator and fan that was under the dashboard. The heating systems in cars that brought in fresh air from the outside and heating the air. Nash motor corporation developed this system before WW II and was the work of an engineer named Nils Erik Walberg. It was actually more effective than the recirculating box under the dash because it pressurized the cabin and kept infiltration of the cold air from outside the cabin. Soon other automobile manufacturers adopted this system. Walberg also integrated the heating and air conditioning system where the entire system was under the hood and behind the dashboard. This integrated system was first available in the 1954 Nash. Other manufacturers had the evaporator and blower in the trunk and brought the air into the cabin through ducts. All modern vehicles use the system devised by Walberg.
One problem I see with EVs is the energy required to heat and cool the vehicle. In a vehicle with a liquid cooled internal combustion engine, the heat is free. An electric motor does not produce sufficient heat for the cabin
I have been wondering about that also espeaialy for the northern winters.
When there is a hurricane coming and a coastal area is to be evacuated, people wait until the last minute to leave, just in case the evacuation order is cancelled. And then there is gridlock on the highways, sometimes lasting 8 hours or more, with emergency responders giving gas to the cars that run out of fuel. Now put EVs into that picture, all trying to charge for the evacuation, bringing down the grid. EVs that can not go any further blocking the highways and no can of electricity to get going. EVs unsafe or disabled because water has got in. After a storm or earthquake an area can be without power for a month. No one seems to be asking “What can go wrong?”.
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There are tow trucks with power supplies to recharge electric cars.
It seems I freeze all winter and freeze all summer. To keep it car related sometimes I’ll make an excuse to go to Menards and turn the heat up full blast in the car to warm up.
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Easy cure move away from the frozen tundra.
When I lived in New England the common comment was that the only place to be really warm in the middle of winter was the car. Or have a wood stove and sit close by.
Thing is it’s not the exterior temp but the interior temp as determined by others. When I would turn the AC off, it is going full blast instead. So I go in the shop and turn the heat on to warm my feet when its 80 degrees out. I did some pre-marital discovery but never thought to ask “what temperature are you comfortable with?”
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Yep there is that I got lucky and the temperature wasn’t to far off and one other thing most don’t find out about until to late are you a morning person or night owl I lost out on that one as she is one of the ones who wakes the chickens to wake everyone else and I don’t like to get up before the crack of noon.
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Tolerance m’man tolerance. Thing is just because it’s one way at one time, could be the opposite in 30 years.
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Well thank goodness both our cars have temp control and vent control for driver side and passenger side. Wife likes 68, I am comfy at 72. turn the middle vents to blow on her. Sure in the house usually 72 summer, 68 winter, but every now and then ac is at such a low temp I get up and turn it off. sorry to cavetch.
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