Turkey’s Environment Ministry said meteorologists had registered a reading of 50.5 degrees Celsius (122.9 degrees Fahrenheit) in the southeast of the country, setting a nationwide record.
The record temperature was registered on Friday at Silopi, the ministry said in a post on X on Saturday.
Silopi is 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Turkey’s borders with Iraq and Syria.
The previous heat record, registered in August 2023, was 49.5 degrees Celsius.
You know that the warmer countries usually have ways to deal with it, including many having AC, right? Talking about “Europeans” collectively doesn’t make sense. Why would I waste money and resources on AC in Sweden or the UK to deal with our two weeks of warm weather? Our homes are instead built to deal with cold conditions.
Don’t worry, Trump is over there to teach you how to do things the American way. See, you use the cheapest lumber, plywood and pine boards, and then you cover it all in plastic sheeting. Then you put up drywall, which is about the weakest material known to man, and cover the interior walls with no plaster or anything
Then what you want to do is really crank the plastic up to 11. Plastic siding, expanding plastic foam in the walls, just fill up the attic with it
And you want to make the designs very basic, they should all look nearly identical
And now you have a house that will require constant A/C or heating, because it’s a plastic bubble with terrible air circulation. Also, you have to worry about the whole thing rotting if it gets too damp
But if you do everything right, it might last 50 whole years
Oh how lovely that sounds! I am beginning to tire of my old brick building… I hope this is part of that totally equal trade deal the EU just made with our saviour so we can crank up the Americanisation!
Yep! Look forward to bleached meat and widening all your roads to accommodate pointlessly enormous trucks you currently need a CDL to drive
You’re going to have to rip up everything and redo it all just for that
Amazing, finally I’ll have space to drive the tank I’ve always dreamed of and I’ll never have to worry about parking spots when I go to the new super mall to buy corn syrup-filled food! I hope we tear down all these old crap buildings and will have a serious building boom! Preferably mass-produced cardboard houses and glass skyscrapers!
Pfft, skyscrapers? In this stage of capitalism? No, you get huge office buildings, 3 floors at best, and you’ll marvel when they have the exact same marble floorings in the lobby, which is just rows of elevators and hallways. They will have huge windows and be the building equivalent of a cubicle inside. They will all be grouped together on the outskirts of cities replacing green places, and there will be no public transportation between them and residential areas. If you’re lucky you can get a cafe within walking distance, but you probably have to drive for lunch
Oh, and that reminds me, you really need to get more proactive about making public transportation worse. No one should use it by choice, it needs to be slow and dirty. Only the poors should use it, to motivate them to become billionaires somehow
Also, the Chunnel is now just for freight. If you want to go somewhere, you’ll use cars and planes exclusively
Yes and the southern countries also know how to build houses that don’t turn into ovens in the heat, thick walls, etc.