# 40°C Heatwave: Fried Eggs, Arctic Ice and Cooling Dips

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2069032241074753851
- Source account: [@BegalliSabrina](https://x.com/BegalliSabrina)
- Source language: Italian
- Target language: English
- Duration: 1:26
- Published: 2026-06-22
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- Original-language version: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/e8XGWmMRGrwR/it/canicola-a-40-gradi-uova-sul-davanzale-ghiacci-artici-e-tuffi.md

## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/e8XGWmMRGrwR/en/40-c-heatwave-fried-eggs-arctic-ice-and-cooling-dips) 40 degrees in the shade. Humanity tries to protect itself from the heatwave by taking refuge in the sun.

[0:06](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/e8XGWmMRGrwR/en/40-c-heatwave-fried-eggs-arctic-ice-and-cooling-dips?t=6) The clever ones manage to discover the umbrella. But everything has two sides, and even the sun offers its practical advantages.

[0:14](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/e8XGWmMRGrwR/en/40-c-heatwave-fried-eggs-arctic-ice-and-cooling-dips?t=14) No more American kitchens with triple burners and electric hotplates. For two eggs fried in butter, the scorching balcony windowsill is enough.

[0:27](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/e8XGWmMRGrwR/en/40-c-heatwave-fried-eggs-arctic-ice-and-cooling-dips?t=27) It's hot, so hot, so hot that the poor chickens lay their eggs already hard- boiled.

[0:34](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/e8XGWmMRGrwR/en/40-c-heatwave-fried-eggs-arctic-ice-and-cooling-dips?t=34) In this heat, even the elderly are burned like the youth.

[0:40](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/e8XGWmMRGrwR/en/40-c-heatwave-fried-eggs-arctic-ice-and-cooling-dips?t=40) If under the new highway code irresponsible drivers risk arrest, the parking attendant, for his part, risks being roasted.

[0:53](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/e8XGWmMRGrwR/en/40-c-heatwave-fried-eggs-arctic-ice-and-cooling-dips?t=53) With record temperatures reached, there is talk of the melting of the Arctic ice cap. It would be a deluge.

[0:58](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/e8XGWmMRGrwR/en/40-c-heatwave-fried-eggs-arctic-ice-and-cooling-dips?t=58) Either too much or too little. And let's get a ticket, since the heatwave seems to be almost over.

[1:05](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/e8XGWmMRGrwR/en/40-c-heatwave-fried-eggs-arctic-ice-and-cooling-dips?t=65) Word got out that cool air currents from the north were about to cross the Alps.

[1:10](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/e8XGWmMRGrwR/en/40-c-heatwave-fried-eggs-arctic-ice-and-cooling-dips?t=70) But when? Peak hours of the midsummer sun. Without cool currents, taking a dip becomes a sort of fan. Pranks become a favor.

[1:21](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/e8XGWmMRGrwR/en/40-c-heatwave-fried-eggs-arctic-ice-and-cooling-dips?t=81) Lucky are the cities that have the big tub within reach.