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In the summer, not cool enough, in the winter too cold.
That is what my wife says anyway.
One advantage of this area is that it is subject to a phenomenon known as a "delta breeze" in the summer. In the evenings, there is almost invariably a cool breeze, so you can open your windows and cool the house off fairly fast.
My parent's have an item called a whole house fan. It is mounted in about the same amount of space as a set of those stairs you pull down to get to an attic. It has two speeds, pretty fast and you better set your coffee on the newspaper level breeze. You open the windows and it pulls air into the house blows it up into the attic, out the soffet vents. They have a bunch of shade trees around the house. Mom gets up early anyway, so in the summer, she gets up, opens some windows and turns on the fan. You can drop the temp of the house 20 degrees in 2 minutes.
I don't know how much it drops the temperature of the air in the attic. It gets mighty hot up there, especially when it is triple digits outside. When our air conditioner quit one fine August day on Lake Conroe, it got up to 105 in the house, 120 up there where those guys were working. It was never the heat there though, it was the humidity.
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