ITALY ON ALERT
Italy faces the hottest day of the current heat wave on Friday, with 16 cities on alert from north to south of the peninsula, some regions of which are also ravaged by fires.
To the north, Milan, the capital of Lombardy, should touch 40 degrees, and peaks of 39 degrees are expected in Bologna (north), and Rome (center). Thursday, the city of Pavia (north) broke its temperature record with 39.6 degrees.
Italy is “about to reach the maximum power of the African anticyclone Apocalypse4800. The figure of 4,800 explains the situation very well (…) the thermometer drops below zero degrees only at altitudes above 4,800 meters” , underlines the specialized site ilmeteo.it.
Even after the passage of this new heat wave, no respite is expected. “For three consecutive months, May, June and July, the climatic anomaly was confirmed, with temperatures at the national level at least two-three degrees above the seasonal average”, notes ilmeteo.it, adding that this anomaly in the level of temperatures should last until the beginning of August.
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