New African blaze over central-western Europe, with the peak of heat over Italy between Thursday and Friday: in the next few days the North African high pressure, as has already happened at least 5 times since May, will push northwards, ideally crossing the Strait of Gibraltar.
In Italy, the northern regions and the Tyrrhenian side will be affected above all, with temperatures that will mark up to 39-40 ° C in the shade, and in particular in the inland areas of Sardinia .
According to Lorenzo Tedici, meteorologist of the site www.iLMeteo.it, 40 degrees are “a value that no longer creates surprise: however it is worth remembering that the average climatological values at the beginning of August are much lower. According to the climatology of the thirty-year period 1971-2000, in Turin and Genoa there are usually a maximum of 28 ° C, in Milan 29 ° C, in Bologna 31 ° C, in Florence 33 ° C, in Rome 32 ° C; in the South 'normal' values of 31 ° C in Naples, 30 ° C in Bari, 32 ° C in Cagliari . Among the hottest 'climatologically' - adds the meteorologist - we find the station of Catania Sigonella, with the data of the first decade of August reporting 34 ° C: it is a weather site in the hot inland areas of eastern Sicily not too far from Floridia in the province of Syracuse, where a year ago, on 11 August, a new European record was recorded at 48.8 ° C ".
(Unioneonline / vl)