AidaB
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Same here, I held off watering for ages.
Listened & watched the storms while I was watering, but all rain has missed us this evening.
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It’s getting hot! Are you ready? 🥵
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Listened & watched the storms while I was watering, but all rain has missed us this evening.
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Same here, I held off watering for ages.
Listened & watched the storms while I was watering, but all rain has missed us this evening.
Same here...
piggiemummy03x
Adult Guinea Pig
just wondering if anyone has used one of these ‘plug in air coolers’ which essentially you put cold water / ice into and it sucks in hot air and then blows out the ‘misty’ cool air.. would this be an option in a shed? not sure if it would make things too humid?
I am sorry but I have no personal experience with them.
I'm on night shift this week, it was 26⁰c during the day today, my wife asked how I managed to sleep a full 7 hours in that heat, she was melting. I said easy - earplugs in, eye mask on and bedside fan on full pelt. I couldn't hear it, my eyes weren't watering with the blast of cold air due to the eye mask, just restful sleep with a lovely cool breeze. 
flowerfairy
Senior Guinea Pig
My bedroom is 28 degrees today but there is a nice cool breeze coming through the window. Shimmer and Shetti are living life as normal. I am keeping a VERY close eye on them. (rip Saffron).
As the full sun is on my own bedroom from 2 pm until sundown, temperatures are currently still climbing but I got it down to 23 C (from 27 C) this morning and it is hopefully not getting as hot again.
Lorcan
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I have managed to keep downstairs to 22-23C, upstairs where I am, yeah that's 26-27C. I'm melting, but I'm not going to vape downstairs so I put up with it. Mourne spent yesterday yelling to himself and the girls have been a little fractious, but I've been using tea towels shoved in the freezer for a bit and they're much less suspicious of those than they are of frozen Coke bottles and tupperware tubs. Borrowed a couple off my neighbour too. If it's what they're using, I just need to find more.
Thankfully the wind's picked up and that breeze feels so good.
Thankfully the wind's picked up and that breeze feels so good.
Lorcan
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She rang me about something (yes, from next door, lol) and I was like "hey question got any tea towels you don't need for a few days?" She didn't even ask why, just found two and told me to come grab them lol.
Hay nests are their new favourite thing though. Can't say I blame them.
Hay nests are their new favourite thing though. Can't say I blame them.
Truffolo
Forum Donator 2025/26
You have a lovely neighbour 
. It's a delirious 23.5C here and the cool breeze is delicious 
Back to 30C tomorrow but with a bit of rain. Hopefully that will keep things under control 
. It's a delirious 23.5C here and the cool breeze is delicious Back to 30C tomorrow but with a bit of rain. Hopefully that will keep things under control
We've had a rare thunderstorm in the night with a short but very sharp shower and the closest lightning strike I've ever experienced in the quarter century I've lived here in the UK (enough to set an alarm off at our end of the road), so I had to close my windows but have ended with a hot bedroom at the start of another hot day as a result.
Anyway, my garden has been finally and graciously watered for me, saving me that task for my plant pots and the couple of transplanted boarder plants that are still establishing. It is much fresher here this morning even though the sun is already coming fully onto the south-east garden front with all the large windows and glass doors. I will have to close off that side again soon very soon.
We have been promised another 29 C today but that is hopefully the last hot day. Next week is going to be wet but only warm and not hot. Not great for our plans to for a gentle little day trip out to a historic garden now that I am finally getting fit enough... but at least comfy for being at home and pottering in my own rather overgrown garden.
And we are currently down to 20 C in the piggy lounge, so temperatures should not exceed 25 C (the upper limit of the comfort zone for piggies) by the evening, with regular sheet watering.
Anyway, my garden has been finally and graciously watered for me, saving me that task for my plant pots and the couple of transplanted boarder plants that are still establishing. It is much fresher here this morning even though the sun is already coming fully onto the south-east garden front with all the large windows and glass doors. I will have to close off that side again soon very soon.
We have been promised another 29 C today but that is hopefully the last hot day. Next week is going to be wet but only warm and not hot. Not great for our plans to for a gentle little day trip out to a historic garden now that I am finally getting fit enough... but at least comfy for being at home and pottering in my own rather overgrown garden.
And we are currently down to 20 C in the piggy lounge, so temperatures should not exceed 25 C (the upper limit of the comfort zone for piggies) by the evening, with regular sheet watering.
piggieminder
Forum Buddy
We had dry thunder last night again it was right overhead and kept us awake until 3. Just as hot and muggy here, I wish it would rain and clear the air.
AidaB
Forum Donator 2025/26
Working this week has been tricky, especially as I took on a couple of extra work days. So feeling a bit annoyed with myself for that. (The money will be useful, but I could have used a few siestas too!)
I was grateful for our cooler morning, then next door decided to start cooking something particularly smelly at 7am! So that was the end of our cold air gathering.
Our piggie boys have done very well. I think we are all going to be glad of the cooler weather coming.
(& a bit more sleep.
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I was grateful for our cooler morning, then next door decided to start cooking something particularly smelly at 7am! So that was the end of our cold air gathering.
Our piggie boys have done very well. I think we are all going to be glad of the cooler weather coming.
(& a bit more sleep.
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piggieminder
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According to the local weather notice on my lap top it's raining here and will stop in an hour. I wish! Still dry sunny and very hot.
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It was cooler and overcast here yesterday.
We did have some rain in the night which helped.
A cooler start today but the forecast rain didn’t arrive.
Hot, sunny and dry now - perfect for drying laundry.
We’re managing to keep the piggies’ room at a comfortable temperature.
We did have some rain in the night which helped.
A cooler start today but the forecast rain didn’t arrive.
Hot, sunny and dry now - perfect for drying laundry.
We’re managing to keep the piggies’ room at a comfortable temperature.
flowerfairy
Senior Guinea Pig
23 degrees in the bedroom/guinea pig and hamster room. Still feels close and sticky though. YUK.
This is a picture from the BBC weather page which shows the thunderstorm that made me jump in bed with a very close strike near to us last night. No wonder! I am used to strong thunderstorms from growing up in Switzerland but not in the UK.
West Midlands in pictures: A night of dramatic lightning strikes
Anyway, a fresh morning, a not too hot breeze and increasing high cloud in the afternoon have broken the back of the heat here, so temps were in the higher 20ies but not as close to 30 C as predicted. It's still only 23 C in the piggy lounge and the horde are very much banging for their dinner with Lleian having had a round of zoomies earlier.
West Midlands in pictures: A night of dramatic lightning strikes
Anyway, a fresh morning, a not too hot breeze and increasing high cloud in the afternoon have broken the back of the heat here, so temps were in the higher 20ies but not as close to 30 C as predicted. It's still only 23 C in the piggy lounge and the horde are very much banging for their dinner with Lleian having had a round of zoomies earlier.
I've been sweating like a glass blowers backside. I had a tribe of African pygmies living in the long grass, so I've had the lawnmower out!
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I hope that the baby hippos haven't steamrollered you.
I had to have a long soak in the bath, I was very sticky from heavy sweating!
I'd rather not dare to ask just how many mini hippos followed you to your wallow...
Anyway, well done. My lawn hasn't seen a mower for about 20 years. It's been all been eaten by piggies.
Helen C
Junior Guinea Pig
Hope piggies and piggies slaves are doing well!
It's another scorcher here today and it was already 23°C in the piggies room early this morning (even though we let the windows open all night).
They'll get their ice packs all day, but I'm worried about tomorrow...
I'd put them in the basement for a few days, but the humidity down there is insane (78%, against the 65% in their current room). I'm not sure what's safest for them--lower temperatures with very high humidity or higher temperatures (but under 27°) with lower humidity...
Stay safe everyone!
It's another scorcher here today and it was already 23°C in the piggies room early this morning (even though we let the windows open all night).
They'll get their ice packs all day, but I'm worried about tomorrow...
I'd put them in the basement for a few days, but the humidity down there is insane (78%, against the 65% in their current room). I'm not sure what's safest for them--lower temperatures with very high humidity or higher temperatures (but under 27°) with lower humidity...
Stay safe everyone!
CTWC
Forum Donator 2025/26
Wishing everyone well today 
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I am so very sorry that the heat continues with you. Please be aware that piggies can adapt to a gradual increase of heat; what they struggle with especially are big swings as their own body cooling system is not laid out for that. They have evolved in dense underground (which is well insulated) and come out to feed at down and dusk when temperatures are their most moderate and stable.
I would leave them where they are but make sure that you refill their drinking water bottles in the mornings and that you offer additional cooling from today. If they ignore frozen wrapped bottles, then that is actually a good sign - they don't feel overheated.
What you could additionally offer (if you have them) are fridge cooled snugglesafes or frozen cool box elements for the later afternoon and evening, especially for older and frailer piggies that you can slip underneath their favourite cosies for some gentle cool. They only last about 2-3 hours but I have found them more accepted than frozen bottles.
More ideas here: Hot Weather Management, Heat Strokes and Fly Strike
Helen C
Junior Guinea Pig
Thanks Wiebke 
They do seem a bit perkier than on the first day of the heatwave--we even had some zoomies yesterday. The contrast from cold and rainy to "oh great, it's 30° now" last week was brutal.
I usually use frozen cool box elements wrapped in towels ; they last longer and frozen bottle can be quite noisy when they start melting. I will put some of their tunnels in the fridge when I come back from work (28,5° already in my office and the sun will only reach our side of the building in the afternoon).
It's still supposed to be hot tomorrow before the storms arrive...
They do seem a bit perkier than on the first day of the heatwave--we even had some zoomies yesterday. The contrast from cold and rainy to "oh great, it's 30° now" last week was brutal.
I usually use frozen cool box elements wrapped in towels ; they last longer and frozen bottle can be quite noisy when they start melting. I will put some of their tunnels in the fridge when I come back from work (28,5° already in my office and the sun will only reach our side of the building in the afternoon).
It's still supposed to be hot tomorrow before the storms arrive...
Thanks Wiebke
They do seem a bit perkier than on the first day of the heatwave--we even had some zoomies yesterday. The contrast from cold and rainy to "oh great, it's 30° now" last week was brutal.
I usually use frozen cool box elements wrapped in towels ; they last longer and frozen bottle can be quite noisy when they start melting. I will put some of their tunnels in the fridge when I come back from work (28,5° already in my office and the sun will only reach our side of the building in the afternoon).
It's still supposed to be hot tomorrow before the storms arrive...
Hang on in there but you are doing well but I am sorry for yourself. Make sure that you use some cooling methods for yourself. Do you have curtains, heat reflecting film for the windows etc. that can help to keep your office cooler for the summer?
My bedroom gets the sun only after lunch but then until sundown, which means it is really sweltering and doesn't cool at night because any southerly breeze pushes the heat from the rest of the house into my room.