The warmth wave, baptized as Charon, which extends over a big a part of the Mediterranean, has triggered temperatures in Italy with 20 cities on purple alert, together with Rome, the place temperatures have reached 42 levels, nicely above the all-time excessive of 40.7 levels registered final summer time, whereas in different elements of the nation it could exceed 45.
The arrival of the African anticyclone has pressured the Italian authorities to place 20 cities throughout the nation on purple alert, together with the northern Venice and Verona; the Rome, Florence, Bologna and Venice crops, in addition to the southern Naples and Palermo, in response to native media. On the island of Sardinia they’ve reached 45 levels and in Sicily, 41.
Civil Protection and Red Cross personnel have distributed info brochures to vacationers in strategic locations in Rome, resembling across the Colosseum, with tricks to keep away from essentially the most damaging penalties of the warmth, which has additionally triggered vitality consumption within the capital. The followers and air conditioners work at full capability, registering the utmost values of electrical energy demand up to now this 12 months and approaching the historic most of 60.5 GW registered by the community distributors in July 2015.
The anticyclone will start to maneuver away from Italy beginning this Thursday, when temperatures within the northern half of the nation will start to drop, whereas within the south the warmth has come to remain till the tip of July.
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