Winter 2022

[Evelyn]

I shouldn't...but...62, without a cloud in the sky today. With about another 4 days of the same. Oddly enough, I wish it was cold for Christmas. 

[Wilfrid]

I am sure we have members in Minnesota wishing they were in New York.

[Orik]

Prime location - heat leaking from building, full sun on deck. 

 

[StephanieL]

18 hours ago, Evelyn said:

I shouldn't...but...62, without a cloud in the sky today. With about another 4 days of the same. Oddly enough, I wish it was cold for Christmas. 

63 and sunny here, but we had several nights recently when it was near-freezing and I had to scrape ice off the windshield in the morning.

[Wilfrid]

20 degrees, that's like twice as hot as yesterday.  Tempted to rush out and go to...oh everything is closed.

[Sneakeater]

Can you believe that 20 degrees feels like a balmy relief?

[Sneakeater]

I really should start removing my air conditioners, or at least covering them, during the winter.

[bloviatrix]

On 12/23/2022 at 10:01 PM, Wilfrid said:

Ouch, 9 degrees. I am at home with heating but I have a leaky window behind my reading chair 🥶

I caught a quick blast of sleet on my way to the library this afternoon, then saw the first snowflakes of the season on the way back. Others are doing worse of course.

I was out at 1 pm and it was 49F. Had to run out 2 hours later and the temperature had dropped 20 degrees. The disparity was crazy.

[joethefoodie]

6 hours ago, Sneakeater said:

I really should start removing my air conditioners, or at least covering them, during the winter.

Covering them really doesn't do much in my experience; removing them does. But I haven't removed ours in a few years; there are actually nights during the winter when I use them as it can get so fucking hot in this building.

[Wilfrid]

That is a funny thing hard to explain to non-New Yorkers that the building heat gets so hot in winter you need to open the windows. I had not heard of putting the AC on but I believe it.

[joethefoodie]

8 hours ago, Wilfrid said:

That is a funny thing hard to explain to non-New Yorkers that the building heat gets so hot in winter you need to open the windows. I had not heard of putting the AC on but I believe it.

Yes, many residents here keep their ACs in for the winter.  Largest waste of electricity I've ever seen.  As cold as it has been outside, I keep the radiators in their shut off positions, and it is never less than 70℉ in our apartment.

Hard to manage heat properly for 4 buildings and 1,700+ apartments, with everyone having different exposures, etc.  So the least common denominator is to crank up the heat.  Also, Americans are wusses and believe they are cold when it drops below 70.

[Wilfrid]

On 12/23/2022 at 10:01 PM, Wilfrid said:

Ouch, 9 degrees. I am at home with heating but I have a leaky window behind my reading chair 🥶

 

Would I move my reading chair and reading lamp or go read somewhere else? Or would I just wear a scarf? Guess.

[StephanieL]

14 hours ago, Wilfrid said:

That is a funny thing hard to explain to non-New Yorkers that the building heat gets so hot in winter you need to open the windows. I had not heard of putting the AC on but I believe it.

I got very, very spoiled with the cranked-up heat in my building.  Now I live in a drafty house where I have to pay for the heat myself.  Thank goodness we don't get super-cold temps here, because even putting my furnace at 70 (and 64 at night) gets pricey.

[Orik]

It was a balmy 92 in our bathroom this morning, down to 84 now. 

I think it's actually pretty easy to retrofit NYC boiler based systems so they can utilize feedback from smart thermometers at a cost of a few grand per unit in actual work and materials (plus many tens of thousands in regulatory overhead). 

[Sneakeater]

The day my coop does that is VERY far into the future.