People just can't stop talking about the heat in Kuwait, and a recent video of a truck "melting" on a street's asphalt is all the more reason to keep the conversation going.
In the video that has been making the rounds on social media, the truck's tires can be seen sinking into the concrete road. The incident happened near baqalat (supermarket) Al Dahiya.
Temperatures in the country have hit well over 40 degrees Celsius - reaching 49 degrees Celsius earlier this week.
According to Al Arabiya, Kuwait's Municipality has decided to introduce evening burials and funeral prayers until September because of the intense heat.
"The measure is part of the municipality's keenness on easing the process for the relatives of the deceased and for the mourners attending the funeral," said Faisal Al Awadhi, head of the funeral affairs department at the municipality.
As soon as the video began making the rounds online, people began talking about the realities of global warming
"Kuwait so hot the pavement melts"
Kuwait is at the center of the heatwave
Power consumption rates in the country reached record-level highs of 13,440 megawatts, as temperatures hit 49 degrees Celsius on Sunday, according to Kuwait Times.
The previous record was documented in 2016, with power consumption reaching 13,390 megawatts as a heatwave hit Kuwait, spiking temperatures up to 54 degrees Celsius.
It was recorded as the "highest temperature ever recorded in the eastern hemisphere and almost certain the highest temperature ever recorded on earth," according to The Independent.
The Middle East may become "uninhabitable" by the end of the current century
In 2016, a NASA-led study revealed that the Middle East in 2016 experienced the worst drought in 900 years due to climate change.
Projected hot weather extremes brought on by global climate change could make part of the Middle East and North Africa uninhabitable by the end of the current century.
"MENA is a climate change hotspot that could turn into a scorching area in summer," the researchers wrote in the study published in the scientific journal Climatic Change.