Growing up my grandparents and parents kept their old world traditions of Sunday dinner. They came from Slovenia so we often had traditional foods. I wasn’t a fan of some of the dishes such as blood sausage. Some were really good like pork roast with gravy, Sauerkraut and potato dumplings. ( that was probably my favorite) this is my adoptive family as i was adopted, my lineage comes from the Mediterranean ( took a DNA test ) i never knew my birth family.
Definitely plan for the change in weather as climates are changing world wide. I definitely see a change in California over the last 30-35 years. I remember lots of rain during winter and snow on the mountains, now we might see 2 or 3 days of rain all year and the beautiful snow capped mountains typically are left brown now when there should be snow.
That’s a good idea, I live somewhere brutally hot (Houston) and during the worst of the heat waves (like this weekend) I avoid cooking, running the washer/dryer, or doing anything that can heat up the apartment. I have AC, but don’t want to make it work harder than it already has to.
If you wake up early, you can get stuff done before it gets too hot, and then just sleep during the hottest parts of the day. Wearing appropriate clothing goes out the window as it’s an unnecessary societal norm, and not getting heatstroke takes prevalence.
What i use to do before i got AC because i use to just rent rooms and there was never any AC, and if there was they would b*tch about the electric bill. I use to damp tee-shirts and put them in plastic bags in the refrigerator and that would keep me cool and let me sleep in blistering heat. At 1st it feels weird wearing a damp tee but combine that with a fan and its really nice, it gives a couple hours relief, when the tee dries you can swap it for a fresh one, i promise it really works. Seems like when i tell people that, they don’t seem to believe me i guess.
Growing up poor gave me lots of survival things well off people would never think of, i also know how to make amazing meals for just a couple dollars. For most of my life I’ve been a 99 cent only, dollar tree shopper as I’ve never had a job that paid over 20k a year most times i made about 12k. You learn savvy ways to survive.
I didn’t read through this entire thread but your problem reminded me of this. Mike Wilibanks here in the states just designed and released a line of incubators that both cools and heats. When I first heard about them I thought “Who in the world needs to cool their incubator?”. Barry a.k.a. “ascended” from the MM forums does!
I’m in the UK. Everything is on a thermostat so if it gets hotter than required the heat all turns off. The house is never going to be 40c even if it is outside and I bet anything at some point the heating in the enclosures will come on.
We don’t like being too warm so I guarantee the windows will be open and the fan in the front room on.
I had my AC stop working for a day or two last week end ended up just turning all the heating elements in my enclosures/tubs completely off. I figured the snakes would be fine at a lower temperature for a few days and it would prevent them from warming up the entire apartment
@biologicalcanvas thanks, I cant afford that now but that’s a good option for the future
Problem is my snake room and office are on the first floor, with an over insulated loft and the long side of the house and most windows to the south, temperatures are often above the outside temperatures on my first floor. The design of your house makes all the difference. And mine was designed to trap heat. Which is ideal in the UK most of the time. But not in extreme heat over a extended period.
Thanks, thats a good suggestion, we keep them warmer than needed most of the time anyway.
Lots of people state good results a little bit lower than standard recommended temperatures for both fertility and healthy incubation temperatures…
*Translation Note For Reference: In the UK the First Floor is the one above the Ground Floor. In the USA people refer to the Ground Floor as the First Floor, with the next up being the Second Floor.
Oh, another Heat Reducing trick is to stick aluminium foil into the windows of every south facing side. That way you reduce the greenhouse effect of sunlight coming in and heating your space. The south corner windows of my house used to make that bedroom roasting hot, back before I got better windows, so I stuck a windscreen sunshield thing- the kind you unfold and put up to keep the car from overheating- in that window. (Do you guys have those? It doesn’t get very hot over there until recent years so I dunno if you have them but you could probably get them.)
Well that would depend on where you are in the world, what snakes you keep and what your internal temperatures are.
The uk isn’t generally warm and when it is outside it often isn’t inside. If you have everything on thermostats, if your interior got too warm the heating in the enclosures wouldn’t come on any way. So there shouldn’t be any need to turn anything off.
Thanks for the trans-atlantic translation, i didn’t know,n
A simple thing can mean so much difference,
Yea we can get the car things here too, even in relatively warm temperatures a car can get so hot to kill a dog.but the aluminum foil (or aluminum foil USA) is a really good idea. But because its crinkly it does not reflect much more than white. So I have got thick flexible white plastic and used that on my south facing windows,
Ooh yeah that stuff! If you don’t mind sticking the stuff up, it’s definitely the most efficient and aesthetic option. With the added plus that you can still see through it!
Your translation is exact! Lol. I learned recently that apparently English just uses the two spellings/pronunciations as BOTH correct, which I think is pretty cool. Easier than an argument.
We are the same culture, beliefs and politics basicity (UK and USA) with a few spelling and word differences, why let that drive us and our learning appart
Its been bad but worst is coming +40C = 105 farsight or more , mental highest ever record braking temperature’s for the previous cool summer UK climate. (met office means british main official metrological weather information information system )
Edit: the female paramedic in the video is hot sometimes hot is good
This will be the norm for things to come. So definitely invest in a new portable AC unit. I know it is probably miserable for you especially not use to having such heat.
I hate the heat but have come to expect hot days. Try to stay cool and keep your babies thriving.
Highest ever recorded for uk was 38.2? I think it said.
If ya look on weather app Monday it’s said to be 36 degrees Celsius, Which will be highest next week. But I mean I really don’t see it happening since they were wrong about this week…
Get a chillwell portable personal cooling machine. My building was getting 95/96 every day for a week while waiting on mine to arrive in time for summer heat wave here in the U.S an that was running ac it had inside incubator 95/96 2 units cooled the whole building by 10 degrees. An they just plug into any usb port. They are basically what people call a swamp cooler its 2 small fine mist misters set up infront of a fan. Also you can chose 6 different setting .
You could put one inside your incubator an just keep temp low enough instead of a whole room or house. However be forewarned they raise humidity because that’s how it cools by the mist being evaporated
You can do web search for powered swamp coolers there is if remember right there’s 3 that all claim that they personally came up with there version. Lol funny part all 3 look just alike other then name on them im talking size, fan specs, mister specs, units color.
You can fill water reservoir with ice on very hot days then top off with water so mist it is spraying is literally ice cold.
Oh yeah my building is dark brown so gains heat in winter double insulated with 2 fans in attic to help combat the summer heat. Those lil 10×10 cubes can knock the heat down massively. However they only work good if kept with water at all times. They don’t hold much a couple cups of water. An the colder you set it to run the quicker it runs out of water an power. On max cooling lucky if get 4 hours off water tank on low lasts 12 hours if remember what they say itll do.
All apps get their information form the UK metrological office which give a lower temperature than reality.
This is because the met office records temperatures in the UK are for shade temperatures!
They have a sort of white wooden box with vents and a thermometer in it and use those and publish those shade temperatures. (its looks a bit like a white wooden bee hive box) Temperatures on my south sun wall and so my rooms have already been well higher than 36.
Have an external thermometer if you really want to know how hot it is. Its the sun that heats up your house not the shade (Unless your lucky and have a massive tree shading your sun side of your house.) Also trees create an air conditioning affect due to evaporation, like bowl hugging.
So Those temperatures predicted ‘35’ are for shade. thats not what we actually experience.
Read the link information above for conformation or look it up anywhere.
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Like your animals/eggs. if you really want to know the temperature, don’t relay on the thermostat temperature setting, take your own readings.
Trust your own readings, not Apps based on shade temperatures or thermostat settings…
Also calibrate your thermometers to be sure they are accurate do the following:-
Don’t listen to me or fortcasters, apps or thermostat settings, like you do with your animals, measure yourselves and react adoringly Trust your own calibrated measurements and your own judgement
At the end of the day its your actual room temperatures that count, not app temps or shade weather forecast temperatures.
sometimes hot is good 
