Its always struck me as curious that these medieval conditions are acceptable for humans, but under the Animal Welfare Act you could get up to 5 years in prison for taking your dog, cat, hamster etc.. onto the tube during a heatwave.
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Is this satire? Asking honestly
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Animal Welfare Act 2006
32 Imprisonment or fine
(1) A person guilty of an offence under any of sections 4, 5, 6(1) and (2), 7 and 8 shall be liable
(a) on summary conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding, or to a fine, or to both;
(b) on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 5 years, or to a fine, or to both.
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@meloncollie, can you portable-A/C a room for him to putter in, with blinds open, leaving your blinds-down system intact for the rest of the house? We are home all day also, and when we shut the shades (just before the sun hits the windows), we turn on twinkle lights to jolly things up in the dark rooms. OH likes the dark rooms–he can see his screens better. lol.
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We have an airconditioner, technically a portable but it’s one of the split units with the decompressor outside. It cools the house down nicely.
It requires, however, a somewhat Rube Goldberg-esq installation each year. OH made a separate window frame to accomodate the connecting cable, so the regular frame has to be taken out, the seasonal one installed, then the unit installed. We have a ‘debate’ each year as to whether we really need it, many years we don’t. Once in, it stays in for the season. For a typical Ausserschwyz summer with only a week or two of sauna weather, not worth the effort. But we no longer have typical summers, so we really need a better solution. Or a better compromise. 
This thread got me to thinking about house construction. As above, my Swiss house was built to retain heat, a (belated) response to an earlier crisis. Are Swiss architects today building to address increasing summer temperatures?
The most ‘summer comfortable’ home I had was in Hong Kong. Comfortable because it was built to keep the house as cool as possible before one turned on the air con. Ceilings were very high, lots of atrium-like space so heat rose leaving the ‘useable’ part of the room cooler. Good window placement for cross ventilation. Windows all had automatic blinds. All rooms had ceiling fans, and there was an additional whole house exhaust fan. Before turning on the air con, hit the exhaust fan for a few minutes to get rid of as much hot air as possible. Aircon was controlled per room, so you only used it in one room at a time. Really well constructed for the climate - in fact, I didn’t really need the air con very often, despite the sweltering weather outside.
I hope new builds in Switzerland are starting to address the change we are seeing in Swiss summers.
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Ahhh, I had not idea portable mini-splits exist
They do O_o :
https://www.galaxus.ch/en/s2/product/midea-porta-split-42-m-1194250-btuh-air-conditioners-40851329
I can recommend that unit.
It is much quieter than my last split unit and uses less electricity due to its built in heat pump.
You need to shop around I bought mine from Swiss Obi for CHF 900, also available in Obi Germany for 900 euro
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Go back in December. It will be working by then.
People still talk about the weather once they get there?
Actually I don’t know what people are talking about: The past few days it rained at least once every day. Short (sometimes the sun didn’t even bother to hide), effectively (I’ve not carried a watering can in days). In fact it’s raining right nowvery strongly actually and I would bet soon the sun takes over fully again in a minute.
Something peculiar: It pures down on the Northside, it rains properly on the Eastside and it stopped raining on the Southside. And nope the house is not all that big, I just have windows an all htree sides in the same room.
later, 20.15h we just had an other heavy pure out of nowhere. Wet and warm with the kiddies as well as their fathers running up and down the street. A bit longer and a few more people and it would have been a town festival 
I hope so, it was pretty unpleasant at the air show in Neuchâtel this afternoon.
I can imagine. Must have been very uncomfortable.
Watch out folks!
" A powerful storm front expected in Switzerland!
A thunderstorm and rain front will cross Switzerland from Sunday evening. It will bring a lot of rain to some regions. Thunderstorms will be accompanied locally by gusts of wind.
MeteoSwiss warns of heavy precipitation levels 3 out of 5 in the eastern Central Plateau, central Switzerland and the Bernese Oberland.
The same alert applies to the south-east of Graubünden and Ticino. French-speaking Switzerland is expected to be spared more from heavy rain.
The alert is valid from 6 p.m. on Sunday until Monday 9 a.m. The levels of streams, rivers and lakes could rise rapidly. Caution is therefore advised!"
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We’re sat on the big covered balcony overlooking 270 degrees of mountain range, waiting for the CH storm. It’s very still and warm (24), but cool air is coming from a side valley. There are distant rumblings already…
Had no storm here either.
Thunder, lightning and rain, yes. Wind no. In fact unusually windless.
Same today. So far.
We had some wind right around 7-8 pm last night, and then rain for quite a while, heavy at times, a bit of thunder and lightning. I suppose the idea of stormy weather is subjective.
Thunder, lightning and rain constitute a storm to me, wind is an optional extra.
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We had all four. First thunder and lightning, then an hour of fierce wind, then torrential rain that let up around 5 this morning and is now pelting again.
I guess that’s because thunder and lightning are called a thunderstorm in English. In German there’s the word “Gewitter” for that. “Gewitter” without rain is not a good thing. If there’s strong wind it’s a storm, it can happen without the other three things. In fact where I live we have that quiet often and I hate it, it makes me feel very insecure.
Funny how Edot mentioned wind at the exact time I noticed it was unusually windless here. I mean, not the smallest leave moved here at that moment. With weather it takes a kilometer and it is completely different; one time the streets of Winterthur were flooded, cars hardly got through (it was true, friends told me too, not only the radio) while we were having sunshine and peace here. A delivery guy arriving couldn’t believe the difference.
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We had some rain during the evening and overnight, but very calm, no wind to speak of here in central Switzerland.