A SPRITZ BREAK: After recently enduring 119-degree heat during her son’s wedding, Linda Cohen and her husband decided to spring for a Rapid Cool misting system for their Woodland Hills home. The device creates cooling clouds that keep the heat at bay. “You can go out and barbecue without feeling you’re being barbecued,” Cohen says. (Gina Ferazzi / LAT)
MISTING SYSTEM: Cooling jets of mist quickly turn into fog and a big temperature drop in John BergerÂ’s flame-broiled backyard in Palm Desert. The force field of cool was installed by misting pioneer MicroCool. (Gina Ferazzi / LAT)