Or is it the heat?

I’m not talking about that old thing that everybody says—especially in Florida—about how it’s not the heat, it’s the humidity.

I’m talking about this inability I’ve encountered to find a comfortable temperature inside my house.  Generally speaking, it is either too hot or too cold for much of the year.

The reason for this is the mild climate, I think.  In the high noon of summer, the air conditioner runs.  While there is some variation from room to room, the house generally maintains a comfortable coolness.  In the day or two of actual winter, the temperature is a little less even throughout the house, but it’s not bad.

But when it’s 70 outside, it’s not hot enough for the A/C and it’s not cold enough for the heat.  And what happens then is that it can be too cold inside to wear short sleeves and way too hot for long.  In the space of minutes, I go from shivering to turning on fans.

I’d think I was having hot flashes, except that it truly only happens during these interim months.  And it doesn’t happen when I travel to other, less humid, places.

So, I’m wondering if it’s the humidity in some way.  I do know that the dampness in the air tends to make cold feel colder and heat feel hotter.  I just don’t totally understand how it can make both happen within minutes.

Frankly, I’d like an explanation for that.

Well, who are we kidding?  What I’d really like is a solution to it.  I’m fairly certain, however, that there won’t be one—at least, not one I can afford, anyway—so I would make do with an explanation.  Just so I can stop wondering if I’ve suddenly contracted malaria.  In the meantime, I keep throw blankets handy for temperature control.