«By Sunday the thermometer will mark 38-40°C in Sardinia , Sicily and also in Puglia, before 48 hours of light relief, between Monday and Tuesday». But «it will be the calm before the heat storm , in fact from 11 June a second heat wave is expected even more powerful than the one we are experiencing now in the Center-South».

These are the forecasts of Lorenzo Tedici, meteorologist of the website ilmeteo.it, who underlines how the African heat wave could be punctuated by thunderstorms and even cloudbursts.

"All this heat - explains Tedici - will be, once again, "fuel" for the next storms: now the summer climate, in a good part of Europe (and elsewhere), is increasingly characterized by hot and humid African phases followed by sudden passages with tropical deluges . Accumulations of more than 100 liters per square meter are expected in a few hours and a violence that was once typical only of tropical or rather equatorial zones: the heat, which is sharply increasing, is ferrying Italy towards these climatic bands".

This is because, the meteorologist continues, «the climate has changed: 30-40 years ago, at the beginning of June, temperatures struggled to exceed 30°C in the Center-North, thunderstorms were often confined to the Alps, or where a disturbed front passed, and during the night people still slept peacefully and not sweating». Today, however, concludes Tedici, «the oceans and the Mediterranean Sea are increasingly warmer, the Earth is constantly warming and the heat, energy and steam available for thunderstorms is increasingly greater ; the equation is solved by a single result: weather phenomena are increasingly violent and destructive , even in short periods of time».

(Online Union)

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