For Christmas , Italy once again splits in two with heat and anomalous temperatures even ten degrees above the average in the centre-south and in the mountains .
In the Cagliari area sun and record highs, between 23 and 25 degrees , for Christmas Eve and Christmas. As well as in Sicily and throughout the south and central-south. In the North, temperatures will remain with highs around 12 degrees, with gray skies and drizzle on the Po Valley, the Tyrrhenian side and the Ligurian sector. Even in the mountains the situation is anomalous : in the Alps and the Apennines the freezing point will be around 3000 metres, almost summer values, and locally peaks of +12°C may also be recorded compared to the averages for the period.
The trend is in line with the picture recorded so far for December 2022 which could become the hottest month on record since 1800 .
The African anticyclone, in fact, "will strengthen more and more and could last at least until December 27", explains Tommaso Torrigiani, researcher of the Lamma consortium (Environmental Monitoring and Modeling Laboratory) which brings together the Tuscany Region and the National Research Council (Cnr). . "Even if absolute records will not be reached - underlines Torrigiani - what makes the situation exceptional is the persistence of the anticyclone which considerably raises the average temperatures especially in the centre-south".
«An anomalous heat - concludes Coldiretti - which even risks restarting the blooms, with the danger of exposing them to the damage of a foreseeable sharp drop in temperatures and the loss of crops. Agriculture is the economic activity that more than all the others experiences the consequences of climate change on a daily basis with the damage caused by drought and bad weather that have already exceeded 6 billion euros this year ».
(Unioneonline/D)
