I don’t know what people are smoking, maybe it’s too much heat, but air conditioning is very common and normal here in Italy too.
I don’t know what a cooling center is, but there is AC everywhere, and when there isn’t it’s a choice of the owner to avoid installing it.
Also it’s not the first time we reach similar temperatures sadly. We get around 40°C basically every year.
The south of Italy is clearly on a very high and uncommon peak, tho.
The situation is different in other countries like Germany, northern France or England.
Until a few years ago they never needed AC at all so most homes don’t have it and it’s not even that easy and immediate to have it installed
I don’t know what people are smoking, maybe it’s too much heat, but air conditioning is very common and normal here in Italy too.
I don’t know what a cooling center is, but there is AC everywhere, and when there isn’t it’s a choice of the owner to avoid installing it.
Also it’s not the first time we reach similar temperatures sadly. We get around 40°C basically every year. The south of Italy is clearly on a very high and uncommon peak, tho.
The situation is different in other countries like Germany, northern France or England. Until a few years ago they never needed AC at all so most homes don’t have it and it’s not even that easy and immediate to have it installed
A cooling center is a building with AC open to the public, so people without AC can cool off.
https://www.qualenergia.it/articoli/meta-famiglie-italiane-ha-condizionatore-ecco-come-usa/
Data supporting this. About 50% of italian private households have AC, with obvious differences between regions and local climates.
I don’t know where people in this thread are retrieving data to support their statements but they definitely sound absurd. Source: am Italian