Originally Posted by golfing eagles (Post 2339465)

4 months????? So in other words, you go there for the last 6 weeks of winter, catch the 10 days of spring, 5 days of summer from June 29th to July 4, 10 days of autumn and finally the first 6 weeks of winter, then return to Florida. Lived that for 30 years.

Originally Posted by Laker14 (Post 2339458)

???
I must be one of those nobodies. 4 months/year in The Finger Lakes of NY.

Originally Posted by missyomama (Post 2338866)

Are there things we can do to conserve energy in this extreme heat?

Should we leave garage doors open or closed and if we have attic stairs should we pull them open to let heat escape from the attic?

Originally Posted by kingofbeer (Post 2339516)

Do not leave the garage door open. The garages do not have any insulation in the walls from what I can tell. The inside of the garage is like a sauna. Feels like 110 degrees. Never had this garage extreme heat in any other Florida house. Must be the Villages construction practices.

Originally Posted by kingofbeer (Post 2339516)

Do not leave the garage door open. The garages do not have any insulation in the walls from what I can tell. The inside of the garage is like a sauna. Feels like 110 degrees. Never had this garage extreme heat in any other Florida house. Must be the Villages construction practices.

Originally Posted by ThirdOfFive (Post 2339277)

Weather in The Villages January 2024...

Saturday Jan. 26: 75 and sunny.
Tuesday Jan. 9: 77 and partly cloudy.
Wednesday Jan. 24: 79 and partly cloudy.
Thursday Jan. 25: 81 and sunny.
Friday Jan. 26: 82 and partly cloudy.
Saturday Jan. 27: 81 and sunny.

Care to share what the temps were back in Jan. in your particular neck of the Wisconsin woods?

Originally Posted by jacqueline larsen (Post 2339222)

I have my thermostat set on 80. I’ve adjusted to this cooling. Occasionally I also turn on the fan above the bed.
My bill is around $100/mo for an all electric 1200 sf house.

Originally Posted by retiredguy123 (Post 2339155)

I agree that a ceiling fan will cool your body, but my point was that it doesn't cool the room or reduce the humidity. But, I still do not like ceiling fans and I don't use them. I guess it is a personal preference.

Originally Posted by PugMom (Post 2339919)

i use them to circulate air when needed, and when doing the floors, but mainly keep it off indoors. i like them on the lanai

Originally Posted by Bill14564 (Post 2339399)

I know a few (or knew, some passed) who have Florida residence but travel "back home" for the summers. Essentially snowbirds who make sure they are in the right place for enough days to qualify to file in the state with the more desirable income taxes.

Originally Posted by Kelevision (Post 2339965)

Right but those aren’t Floridians if they’re traveling back “home” during the summer. I’m talking about born and raised Floridians.

Originally Posted by Kelevision (Post 2339965)

Right but those aren’t Floridians if they’re traveling back “home” during the summer. I’m talking about born and raised Floridians.

Originally Posted by GizmoWhiskers (Post 2339050)

This is not the norm for Florida if one has lived most of their life in FL.

The weather industry has created a NEW term, "heat dome" for what we are experiencing. They have created many new terms that coincide with the experimental weather engineering they are currently doing world wide to "dim" the sun.

The spraying of stratospheric aerosol injections amungst other nifty government projects are creating climate change for an earth that used to have natural changes in climate.

How cute that the weather industry pacifies us with new terms such as "heat dome" and new cloud names.

FL used to get pretty hot in late July to Aug, not Feb to Dec. We used to have rain from March to September to counter the heat. FL is baren dry now.
FL was never like AZ which it is now. It saddens me to see all the dying Palm Trees. FL used to get so much rain fungus was the threat for killing ones lawn not severe drought.

Now, with cloud seeding and other governmental experimentation we get rain seemingly when it's our turn. HAARP and other methods have been creating some intense weather in the country and world-wide. Ask Dubai and San Francisco about cloud seeding floods.

The Villages will eventually get to see some rain as the weather industry let's us know the new term for the extreme rain we will be getting. Perhaps they will name it "Golf Rain" in honor of The Villages lol.

What is a heat dome?

Originally Posted by tophcfa (Post 2339008)

The solar on our pool is turned off and the water hasn’t gotten above 87 during the hottest time of the day, and we have southwest exposure? The chiller sounds nice, but not really necessary. That being said, I swam laps Friday evening at the La Hacienda sports pool and the water was pretty warm and looking a little greenish. After a half mile, I bagged the swim and went home to finish my swim tethered to the super swim pro (which is nice, but not the same as swimming in a regulation 25 yard pool). The sports pools can get pretty nasty this time of the year with the masses of people participating in group activities while drenched in suntan lotion.