Hot and sultry, accompanied by the pall of Saharan dust in the sky. These are the elements which, combined, will cause temperatures to reach well above 40 degrees in Sardinia next week, with possible peaks of up to 45 in the inland plains.
In short: that of these days is just a taste, from Sunday the mercury column will tend to rise steadily, reaching its maximum between Wednesday and Thursday.
"If it will be very hot during the day," explains Mattia Gussoni, meteorologist at iLMeteo. referring to all of Italy, «even the night will not be outdone. Here the heat will take care of making sleeping difficult. The warm air masses transported by the African anticyclone crossing the Mediterranean Sea will become loaded with humidity. With minimum temperatures almost never below 20 degrees in many Italian cities you will have tropical nights ».
Gussoni announces that it will be Sardinia «that will record almost record temperature measurements for the period. The African anticyclone will acquire more and more power starting from Sunday when its boiling heart will menacingly approach Italy. If 34-35 degrees are not exceeded in the North, 37°C will be reached in the Center as in Florence and Rome, the same figure also possible in Campania, as in the Caserta area. Instead, it will be even hotter in the internal areas of Sardinia and Sicily where 42°C could be recorded ».
From Monday, then, the climate will be even hotter: «They could touch», explains the meteorologist, «45 degrees in Sardinia, 38 in Tuscany and Lazio as in Florence and Rome, up to 37°C in the rest of the South and also North".
(Unioneonline/E.Fr.)