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I thought we would melt this past few weeks. The temperature hit 98 degrees several different days of our trip. By 1 PM most days, it was already 89 degrees.
We just arrived back home on Sunday after two weeks in our home resort, which has no AC because the trade winds supposedly always keep it cool.
Well, not really. The trades were not blowing more than about four days of the two weeks, and our unit faces West, directly oceanfront in West Maui, so it was hot!
The five sliding doors facing west in our unit were ushering in the sunshine, even though they all have blinds and tinted windows, which we kept closed from noon on. The sun really didn't come in until around 5 PM, but about 4 PM it was unbelievably hot in the unit, and we had to get out of there.
The restaurants on Maui are almost all open air, and there were no breezes, so people weren't in those restaurants much. It was simply too hot to even sit in the shade. The stores were packed with people, as were the movie theaters.
This was unusual for Maui because we have been in August and didn't get this warm. The tropical storms were keeping the trade winds from blowing, and supposedly that was a lot of the problem. We prayed for rain every day to cool things off.
Was anyone else on Maui during this heatwave? The lack of AC had me watching for last-minute weeks in units with AC, but Rick told me not to worry about it. The nights were cool enough with the fans and the cooler temperatures.
This was literally the first time we returned from Maui and weren't sad about leaving.
We just arrived back home on Sunday after two weeks in our home resort, which has no AC because the trade winds supposedly always keep it cool.
The five sliding doors facing west in our unit were ushering in the sunshine, even though they all have blinds and tinted windows, which we kept closed from noon on. The sun really didn't come in until around 5 PM, but about 4 PM it was unbelievably hot in the unit, and we had to get out of there.
The restaurants on Maui are almost all open air, and there were no breezes, so people weren't in those restaurants much. It was simply too hot to even sit in the shade. The stores were packed with people, as were the movie theaters.
This was unusual for Maui because we have been in August and didn't get this warm. The tropical storms were keeping the trade winds from blowing, and supposedly that was a lot of the problem. We prayed for rain every day to cool things off.
Was anyone else on Maui during this heatwave? The lack of AC had me watching for last-minute weeks in units with AC, but Rick told me not to worry about it. The nights were cool enough with the fans and the cooler temperatures.
This was literally the first time we returned from Maui and weren't sad about leaving.