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[den]

My weather station tells me it hit 100F at 3pm. It was a bit hot in the factory today, under that tin roof.

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[brucebergman.livejournal.com]

How humid does Dubbo get in the summer? If it stays fairly low, swamp coolers (evaporative air conditioning) are cheap to run for warehouses and factory shop areas. Drop that 100-F down to a tolerable 80 or 85 when you provide enough crossflow to get the heat up and out.

You just have to be careful about the humidity getting up to rusting levels around tools...

Los Angeles is in that nice median band - not too hot, not too cold. At least when the ground isn't moving, and the hills are not on fire or turning into mudslides the next rain after... (No place is perfekt.)

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

Mid-summer humidity here when thunderstorms aren't in the area, is 5 to 10% When a thunderstorm threatens the % jumps to 70%. Almost every house in town has evap a/c. We have a big on on a stand the guys can move around and point at wherever they are working. Plus, there are double doors at each end of the factory so we can get a breeze going.

It's just that when the outside temp tops 40C, you can only get hot still air, hot moving air, or hot moist blowing air. Water consumption goes through the roof and productivity stops.