Louisiana Heatwave Hacks: Creative Ways to Stay Cool in 2025

For the most part, Louisiana will be in for another long, hot, and humid summer, and if you are getting tired of dealing with it, we have a few ideas to hopefully improve things.

From now through September, Louisiana will likely experience high temperatures in the 90s and heat indices each day that make it feel like 100 degrees or hotter. If experience is any indicator, we are in for another scorching summer.

Louisiana's Summer Is Going To Be Brutal

The Old Farmer's Almanac is predicting a hotter-than-usual summer. When we think of summer, we know it's pretty much here and will last into the months that people in the northeast experience fall. For its purposes, the Old Farmer's Almanac characterizes summer as June, July, and August.

In June, July, and August, it focuses on "temperature and precipitation trends compared to historical 30-year averages, updated every decade."

Their prediction for Louisiana is that it will be a hot and dry summer and that July and August will have higher-than-normal temperatures! Yep!

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Overheated At Night? Throw These In The Freezer

You are not alone if you are tired of the heat and the cost of cooling your home. People look for ways to cool off yearly without paying an exorbitant electric bill.

Listen, this may seem crazy, but it works. According to Tom's Guide, you only need to put your sheets in a plastic bag and freeze them for about an hour.

Casper Sleep also recommends this, and yes, the sheets won't stay cold the entire night, but it might be just enough time for you to peacefully drift off to sleep before they cool down too much.

Want a shortcut idea for this? Pull back your covers on the bed. Just put the top sheet and not the fitted sheet in the freezer. Throw in your pillowcases, too. After an hour, grab those and use them; it's a good shortcut so you don't have to go through the time to put the fitted sheet back on.

Louisiana Residents Can Beat The Heat At Bedtime

If putting your sheets in the freezer works for cooling you and your bed at night, the same argument can be made for your pajamas, right?

Wisebread says it should work in theory. This writer can confirm that it does, in fact, work!

And, as WebMD.com points out, if you can't take your pajamas out of the freezer because that makes them too cold, try the refrigerator instead. The key is making sure that whatever you put in either place is in a plastic bag.

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Miserable Heat? Why Cold Water On Your Hands And Feet Will Help

No joke about it, one way to cool your body's core temperature is to run cold water over your hands and feet.

Now, you may not have the luxury of a swimming pool, but you can cool down your hands and feet with the water from the shower or bathtub.

Time.com explains that experts suggest that people do this as a fast way to cool off their entire body.

Heather Massey, a senior lecturer in clinical exercise physiology and member of the Extreme Environments Laboratory at the University of Portsmouth in the U.K., says, "...our extremities are an amazing radiator of heat, especially when we've got an elevated deep body temperature."

Desperate To Cool Off? Jump In The Shower

Yes, you will have to take your clothes off for this solution, but why not do this?

A quick shower, even if you just take a cloth and run it under cold water to cool yourself down, will likely make you feel much better.

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Louisiana Residents, Going Clothes-Free Is A Bold Bet That Will Pay Off 

Some people might be extremely uncomfortable doing this, but if you live alone, you can always try going without clothes at night or whenever you get home.

The biggest thing to remember... Don't Get Naked In Public! You will get arrested. It's like Nelly's song says, "It's Getting Hot in Here, So Take Off All Your Clothes."

According to Big Green Purse, stripping down will help you cool off, and you can get even cooler if you stand in front of or directly below a fan.

Hopefully, you can use some of these tips that are very inexpensive to help you cool off. These helpful tips can help you avoid running to the thermostat every 15 minutes to get your air conditioning to kick on.