Sentences with phrase «block summer heat»

Turning lights off when leaving a room and shutting blinds to block summer heat are just a couple simple ways to decrease energy costs and make your home more comfortable and efficient.

Not exact matches

During the summer the louvers block the heat of the sun.

Heat rejection helps you stay cool during the summer by blocking the sun.

Green roofs, green streets, rainwater gardens, and bioswales can absorb storm water runoff, while also cooling city blocks suffering from the urban heat - island effect during hot summers.

I'm not sure which I like better because they're both similar in a lot of ways but I do love living a block from the beach... Great cali shirt and comfy outfit for summer heat.

A solid block of intense reds, again thinly bordered, evokes the summer heat of Southern California and the claustrophobic Santa Ana winds off the desert.

Passive solar heating through the glass roof and walls is utilized in the winter, modulated in spring / fall with insulated shades, and blocked in summer by trees and shades.

South facing windows can be shaded with overhangs that will block the high summer sun, but allow the low winter sun to shine in and provide passive solar heating when its wanted.

In other passive house projects it has been observed that shutters are sometimes used more for privacy than for summer shading; if left closed during the heating season this would tend to hinder rather than help the thermal performance by blocking out winter solar gains.

24), Tachibana et al. (14) showed that an anomalously strong positive summer NAM (as occurred specifically during the 2003 European heat wave) accounted well for hemispheric weather regimes with anomalously high midlatitude blocking activity between strongly marked polar and subtropical jets, over the period 1958 — 2005.

Indeed, urban heat islands are often most clearly defined on calm summer evenings, often under blocking anticyclones.

Blocking also leads to extremes developing in air masses, such as cloudless heat waves in the summer and cold clear - skied high pressure centers in winter.

Kindly explain how it is that a blocking high in summer, aka heat wave, is related to AGW, but a blocking high in winter, aka cold snap, is «just weather»

The heat wave was due primarily to a natural phenomenon called an atmospheric «blocking pattern», in which a strong high pressure system developed and remained stationary over western Russian, keeping summer storms and cool air from sweeping through the region and leading to the extreme hot and dry conditions.

Third, the cantilever shades the windows of the first story of the house so as to block out the harsh summer sun, while allowing plenty of light and passive solar heat gain in the winter when the sun is lower on the horizon.

Mature Trees Trees can cut a home's cooling bill in half in the summer and can block wind in the winter to reduce heating by 20 — 50 percent.

Last summer, heat remained in the room, even when she closed the curtains and shutters to block out the sunshine.

Design and layout of windows, walls and floors collect, store and distribute solar energy in the form of heat in the winter and block solar heat in the summer.

In public debate, the focus usually is on the ecosystem services of trees: their ability to clean the air, filter the water, soak up stormwater and lower energy bills by shading summer heat and blocking winter winds.

See, I am on the (impossible I think) lookout for a way to block much more light (= heat) from my windows during the summer, without looking «wintry»!

Additionally, window coverings increase energy efficiency in all kinds of weather, by blocking heat gain in summer as well as helping to maintain a comfortable inside temperature when it's cold outside.