Posted on 07/19/2023 6:57:02 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
New York (CNN) — Consumers are snapping up air conditioners, ice makers, pool floats and other goods to help them cool down in response to a brutal heat wave in the United States.
On Amazon, sales of air conditioners increased 248% during the 30 days ending July 14, according to data from Jungle Scout, a data and analytics platform for Amazon sellers. Sales for fans grew 60%.
Searches on Amazon for “single room AC units” and “portable misting fans” also spiked triple digits during the period, according to Jungle Scout.
On Wednesday morning, a sun shade for car windshields was listed as the best-selling product on Amazon’s automotive page.
Lightweight and cooling bed sheets were the best sellers for Amazon’s home and kitchen department, and a hammock pool float topped the charts on Amazon’s toys and games page.
It’s the latest example of how climate change and extreme weather patterns have impacted consumer purchases.
Last month, sales of air purifier units increased by 96% compared to June of last year amid some of the worst air quality levels on record on the East Coast, according to data from Circana.
Canadian wildfires smothered large swaths of the United States. In the Northeast, where the wildfire smoke was worst, air purifier sales jumped 119% in June.
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On of the best things I have done in the last few years is buy the heaviest insulated Blackout curtains for my four bedrooms and family room sliding door. I open those windows at night and close all the windows and curtains by 7am.
I run a couple window AC units only when it gets into the 90s here in NH.
“Sales for fans grew 60%.”
I’m one of the 60%. Home Depot and Lowe’s are cleaned out of fans, so I ordered a 3ft tower oscillating fan, for my garage’s “dead air zone”.
We run our air conditioning at full-blast, and our electric bills were less than ten dollars for the months of mid-May to mid-July, and that was only because Dominion Power added new taxes and connection fees to our bill. Yes, solar panels are expensive at first, but they have a guaranteed thirty-year life span at 98% of their rated capacity, and with the tax credit and increasing utility rates, we will recoup our investment in eight years
Its what we do. if you leave the bedroom doors open where they are used, the cold air from those bedrooms cools the rest of the house here too. Michigan.
105 officially here in Central Texas yesterday, though the temp gauge in my truck said it was 109.
Correct. Media-induce hysteria over summer being hotter than other times of the year. Nothing else newsworthy going on...
We ordered a portable AC from Amazon for our 38 ft RV up at our rural compound. It works like a charm and uses about 40% less watts than the AC system that came with the unit. I just got the first full summer electric bill for up there and it was really low.
I ordered a 3 ft tower oscillating fan!
We bought one 3 summers ago. It stays in our family room where my wife and I spend most of the day. The rest of our home is covered by 2 HVACs.
The rest of our home is controlled by 2 remote thermostats. We keep the temp off until we use the areas covered by HVAC.
Our 3 ft tower oscillating fan is remote controlled, and we don’t use it until about dinner and post dinner.
Our PG&E electric bill goes up to a couple of hundred bucks per month our hot summer/fall.
Neighbors, who run their AC @ 24/7 got some $1,000+ bills for June with smaller homes. Their July bills will be bigger with the heat the past few weeks.
Yep, my brother used to work at a factory that produced lawn mowers in the winter and snow blowers in the summer.
The oscillating tower fan is for the garage only -- I have ceiling fans in the condo -- to get some air, since I smoke in there, or on the back patio, NOT in the condo. I have a new 2-Ton Amanna AC unit in the back of the unit.
That is an excellent set-up! With the central air, I keep our home at 76 in the summer - all I really want to do is get the humidity out.
We have a fan in just about every room. It’s never uncomfortable in any room in the house.
Both of us ‘run hot’ and in the winters it’s 68 degrees max during the day and down to 58 degrees at night. If we’re going below zero I let the kitchen sink faucet drip and I open the cabinet door below it. Our house is from 1900, so she has her problems, but heating and cooling isn’t one of them. The metal roof has preformed amazingly well.
Home Depot is closer and you can just go in and pick it up, no special delivery needed.
By the way - I saw an expert weather guy on Varney & Company this morning. The heat “records” in Arizona were seeen before in the 1970s and altogther the 1930s had a larger summer heat wave than this one.
Wait a minute, the 1930s was before 80% of the human added CO2 was put in the atmosphere. Something is not “right” here. /sarc
Climate change clickbait, sponsored by Amazon. We be being played folks.
It’s Summertime. 😎
My a/c unit blows 48 degree air : )
The apartment is not well insulated so the temp is in the upper 78 or 79 if I set the temp at 68 on the a/c unit but the humidity is low at about 40% so it is comfortable. I can get the temp down to 75 or lower but that is too cold.
MASTERCOOL (52220 1” Analog Thermometer - use it for home or car.
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