The Met Office has declared a level two heatwave alert in southeast England

[johncar54]

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For those who are not aware.

Fans do not cool the air, however, the stream of air does evaporate the moisture on the skin. In doing so energy/heat is removed from the body, thus fans do cool the body, especially if one is sweating.

For this reason, removing the sweat from your skin, say with a towel, actually reduces the cooling effect on the body.

Fans should not be left running when no one is present. The motor gets hot when running and thus increases, although only minimally, the temperature of the room

[JimOttley]

For those who are not aware.

Fans do not cool the air, however, the stream of air does evaporate the moisture on the skin. In doing so energy/heat is removed from the body, thus fans do cool the body, especially if one is sweating.

For this reason, removing the sweat from your skin, say with a towel, actually reduces the cooling effect on the body.

Fans should not be left running when no one is present. The motor gets hot when running and thus increases, although only minimally, the temperature of the room

John some of those fans are 70 to 100 Watt we end up have three or 4 of them running and Ana insists on putting them all up to full speed, drives me nuts!!! Up to 400 Watts heating in an already HOT room.

Personally I much prefer a slower stream of air and from one direction not sweeping back and forward all the time.

The worst of it is she won't believe me when I tell the fans are heating the room and at night they close all the windows so we can't even get decent circulation of the air in the house to push some of the heat outside. Where we are it's often cooller outside or on the terrace than it is inside downstairs.

I still love the heat though