It is an absolute heat record in Italy. Yesterday on Sicilia, namely a Floridia in the Syracuse area, They were touched 49 degrees of temperature: 48,8 to be exact, in the middle of the day, a level never reached in Europe. This was ascertained by Sias (the Sicilian agrometeorological information service), even if the Air Force weather service does not confirm. Naturally the Sicilian case - which threatens to continue at least until Friday - is only the tip of the iceberg of the heat emergency which is raging in almost all of Italy and in Mediterranean Europe and which is aggravated by the spread of fire, in many cases malicious. But it is a record case.
The heat of Floridia and Sicily, if it is confirmed in the data recorded by the regional weather service, shatters all previous primates, both Italian and European. In our country the heat record, according to what he said this morning La Repubblica, was held by Foggia which in 2007 had reached 47 degrees temperature, even if in the province of Enna the 1999 degrees had been reached in 48,5, but according to a never approved survey.
Floridia also burns (it should be said) the heat records previously recorded in Europe such as that of Athens (48 degrees in 1977), of the Portuguese Amareleja (47,4th in 2003) and of the Spanish Cordoba (47,3th in 2017).
The next few hours don't seem to promise anything good and, according to weather forecasts, the heat peak in Italy will be reached Friday, day in which they will be well 15 cities in red dot:
- Bari
- Bologna
- Bolzano
- Brescia
- Cagliari
- Campobasso
- Florence
- Frosinone
- Latina
- Palermo
- Perugia
- Rieti
- Roma
- Trieste
- Viterbo
But to aggravate the heat emergency there are also the fires, which are raging in many parts of Italy and which yesterday claimed other victims in the South. Particularly affected the Sicilia , Calabria, not forgetting the Sardinia.
A 77-year-old shepherd died in Grotteria, in the province of Reggio Calabria, while trying to save the flocks from the flames that are consuming the hills.
Also in Calabria, a 79-year-old man died in Cardeto (Reggio Calabria) from the consequences of a fire.
In Paternò (Catania) a 30-year-old farmer was killed in an accident with his tractor, which overturned on a bend while carrying a barrel of water. The man was trying to put out a fire on a farm in the Ponte Barca area.
