Hot temperatures, the meteorologist: "Perhaps the hottest May in Italian history"
The heat will reach its peak at the weekend, with differences in Sardinia, compared to the seasonal average, up to 13 degreesThe current month could be the hottest May in Italian weather history.
The meteorologist Andrea Garbinato underlines this, according to whom in the next few days it will be up to 36 degrees. With the peaks right in Sardinia.
The "persistent" anticyclone Hannibal determines the surge in temperatures, which, the expert underlines, is at maximum power, recording temperatures of 33 degrees in the shade in the Po Valley, which could still rise by 2-3 degrees .
"We will reach 35-36 degrees in the plains - adds Garbinato - in particular in the North and in Sardinia with a deviation from the norm of up to 12-13 ° C. We remind you that in May in Italy the maximum temperatures normally oscillate around 22- 23 ° C: exactly 1 month before the summer solstice we will be able to break numerous absolute records for this month ".
The heat will reach its peak on Saturday 21 May , exactly one month before the start of the astronomical summer. And abroad, temperatures are even higher than in Italy: on the Iberian Peninsula and in France they are 12 degrees above the average, in Spain a place has reached 37 ° C: it is Andujar, a city of the autonomous community of 'Andalusia.
(Unioneonline / vl)