Istanbul usually gets too hot during the last two weeks of July but even then, I do not feel it much when I am home. My apartment is strategically positioned so that my spare room gets some direct sunlight may be for a two hour window during the day. My living room, kitchen and bedroom never get direct sunshine. So, I have never needed an air conditioner. I have a portable fan that I used may be three summers in Istanbul during the last 14 years.
This year is different. It is so hot an humid that the fan works many hours during the day. It is almost mid-August and usually this is the time when we start sensing that fall is in the air. Not this year! I have trouble concentrating on my work so I think, I will go to a Starbucks where I can work comfortably with the air conditioner running.
Weather.com says it is 86 degrees fahrenheit and we feel it like 93! Yikes!
I guess we've been lucky... it was a wonderful winter (lots of snow) and it's been a very mild summer. We've only had 2-3 100F degree weather days. Right now, it's 68! You almost need a light jacket to be out. That's a very high heat index if it bumps it to 93. Hope it cools off soon.
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