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Travel Forum / Destinations / USA and Canada / June 2006Air Conditioning Needed in Phoenix?
Is air conditioning required if you stay in Phoenix now until August? I mean can you live there and not have airconditioning in your place? > Is air conditioning required if you stay in Phoenix now until August? I > mean can you live there and not have airconditioning in your place? This is a joke? Right? > Is air conditioning required if you stay in Phoenix now until August? Yes. > I mean can you live there and not have airconditioning in your > place? Yes, but you don't want to. I'll be there within two weeks. I anticipate temperatures to be 'tween 108° and 113°F. Higher won't surprise me. -- ________________________________________________________________ . . . in L.A., you cannot trust air you cannot see -- Len http://geocities.com/dancefest/ -<->- http://geocities.com/iconoc/ ICQ: http://wwp.mirabilis.com/19098103 -------> IClast at Gmail com  SignaturePosted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com >> Is air conditioning required if you stay in Phoenix now until August? >Yes. >> I mean can you live there and not have airconditioning in your >> place? >Yes, but you don't want to. >I'll be there within two weeks. I anticipate temperatures to be 'tween >108° and 113°F. Higher won't surprise me. It already hit 113 two weeks ago. It'll be pushing past 115 in about few weeks with lows over 100. It's a little weird going out at 11pm and seeing the temperature over 105. > Is air conditioning required if you stay in Phoenix now until August? I > mean can you live there and not have airconditioning in your place? People do it every day but, not if they can help it... >cenorthamerica@yahoo.com wrote: > Is air conditioning required if you stay in Phoenix now until August? Temps are routinely 105 - 112 F, sometimes higher ... AC is nice. > I mean can you live there and not have airconditioning in your > place? Sure, all the inmates at Sherif Joe's "Tent City" are serving their time without AC. But it's not very comfortable ... >Is air conditioning required if you stay in Phoenix now until August? I >mean can you live there and not have airconditioning in your place? Yes. Can you tolerate 145 degree temperatures indoors? Electricity for AC costs about $130-150/month for a 1000 sq ft. apartment not on the top level. Having AC in phoenix is as necessary as heat for a montana winter. You can certainly live there without air conditioning. Not comfortably, perhaps, but it will not normally affect your survival as long as you pay attention to hydration. Usually swamp coolers are not considered as air conditioning and they can be effective in amelioration the daytime temperatures. Outdoors misting systems have a similar effect. Folks live in climates like Phoenix without air conditioning. Not easily though. > Is air conditioning required if you stay in Phoenix now until August? I > mean can you live there and not have airconditioning in your place? Not too worry-------------it's a dry heat. MLD > Is air conditioning required if you stay in Phoenix now until August? I > mean can you live there and not have airconditioning in your place? >Not too worry-------------it's a dry heat. >MLD >> Is air conditioning required if you stay in Phoenix now until August? I >> mean can you live there and not have airconditioning in your place? Certainly many years ago people did just that, but I doubt you'd consider it "living". Consider that temps may reach 115F. Or, on occasion, higher. ************* DAVE HATUNEN (hatunen@cox.net) ************* * Tucson Arizona, out where the cacti grow * * My typos & mispellings are intentional copyright traps * > Not too worry-------------it's a dry heat. Heh. But: He said till August. Monsoonal flow intervenes, where temps in Phoenix go down to the 90's and humidity goes up to inhuman numbers. Nex >> Not too worry-------------it's a dry heat. >Heh. But: >He said till August. Monsoonal flow intervenes, where temps in Phoenix go down >to the 90's and humidity goes up to inhuman numbers. Nex Down to the high 100's actually. Fortunately, it's just 5-6 weeks. > >> Not too worry-------------it's a dry heat. > >Heh. But: > >He said till August. Monsoonal flow intervenes, where temps in Phoenix go down > >to the 90's and humidity goes up to inhuman numbers. Nex > Down to the high 100's actually. Fortunately, it's just 5-6 weeks. Of course the higher the humidity the lower the temps go. I've seen a bunch of days where the temp would descend to 96 or 98 while the humidity shot through the roof. Like you said, not the best of times to visit. I spent 3 years in Phoenix and consider it more than enough. Nex (Happy in San Diego) > Of course the higher the humidity the lower the temps go. I've seen a > bunch of days where the temp would descend to 96 or 98 while the > humidity shot through the roof. Like you said, not the best of times to > visit. I spent 3 years in Phoenix and consider it more than enough. Nex > (Happy in San Diego) Actually, you don't need AC in Phoenix ANY time, summer or winter - unless you want to be there. >Alan Pollock wrote: > > He said till August. Monsoonal flow intervenes, where temps in Phoenix go down > to the 90's and humidity goes up to inhuman numbers. Nex Actually daytime high temps don't "go down to the 90's" until October in most years. In August it's typically 5 degrees cooler than July but still in the 105-110 F range, with higher humidity. Not the best time to visit ... >>Alan Pollock wrote: >> [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] >still in the 105-110 F range, with higher humidity. Not the best time >to visit ... Tucson is cooler and less humid, even during the monsoon season. Even I try to avoid Phoenix in July and August. ************* DAVE HATUNEN (hatunen@cox.net) ************* * Tucson Arizona, out where the cacti grow * * My typos & mispellings are intentional copyright traps * > Is air conditioning required if you stay in Phoenix now until August? I > mean can you live there and not have airconditioning in your place? People have lived in the Phoenix area for hundreds of years without air conditioning. > People have lived in the Phoenix area for hundreds of years without air > conditioning. And people lived in the arctic for hundreds of years without heaters. Richard Listening to local talk show in Boston on Friday and topic was related to news story that in 2005 Massachusetts had its highest adult migration to other states. That's not a surprise, so the host's question was: " to folks out there who have moved back to Boston area - WHY in the world did you do it ?". As one of those looking for places to relocate, I listened. Quite a few folks called in saying that they HAD moved to Phoenix are and it was just too dxxn hot. They spent more money on their utilies THERE than they did in Boston ( A/C Bill vs Heating bill), but mostly it was a quality of life issue - it was so hot that they didn't DO anything - they stayed indoors. In Boston - even in the winter - you can at least put on a jacket/gloves etc and DO something outside. Bobb >> People have lived in the Phoenix area for hundreds of years without >> air [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > Richard No. It is not needed. My dog, rest his soul, was just fine without air conditioning. A little underdone, possibly, but delicious nevertheless. > Is air conditioning required if you stay in Phoenix now until August? I > mean can you live there and not have airconditioning in your place? |
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