With 110º forecast next week, I think I need to move here

 

With our weather forecast for the next ten days looking like this (clickit to biggit) . . .

I think I need to move to a cooler clime!  This report from Arkansas sounds just right for a break.

While some toil away in the heat of the summer sun, others are zipping up their winter coats for their work day.

Inside an old Johnson limestone mine sits Americold Logistics, a cold storage facility. The facility previously operated as Zero Mountain, which had turned the mine into a cold storage facility with ammonia refrigeration.

Tony Parrish has worked inside the 292,000-square-foot-cold cavern for 28 years. He said the cave was great for a cold storage facility because "inside the cave, it's 65 degrees year-round, whether it's 100 degrees outside or 35."

"If you've got glasses, they're going to fog up when you go outside," Parrish said. "If you've got a cold, you're going to keep a cold. If you don't like the warmth, the heat, you're fine, because there's more to do. Just go back from break early."

Brandon Early is a forklift operator who has worked at Americold for two years. He played hockey at the University of Arkansas in 2009 but still says it's as "cold as the Rockies baby."

"You go in and the forklift is black and you come out and the forklift is white, frosty, and steaming," Early said. 

Ammonia refrigeration keeps temperatures at subzero levels, which explains the employees' attire of beanies and winter coats. Parrish describes the facility as the "Antarctic of Arkansas," with temperatures dropping as low as -35 degrees Fahrenheit. Parrish said the coldest rooms, their 6 blast cells, must drop to -35° F to take in freshly produced poultry.

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 In operations, Parrish said other facilities work just the same in cooling products. However, he said their facility has 10 feet of permafrost frozen into the limestone rocks, meaning if something went wrong it would keep cool longer.

There's more at the link.

If it's going to be 110º Fahrenheit outside next week, ten feet of permafrost sounds like a good change of pace - for a short while, anyway.  I wonder if they do short-term rentals there?  If I stuck my feet in the permafrost storage, and my head outside, would I feel just the right temperature on average?

Peter