Intense heat, violent rains and rising seas: Mediterranean fever hits Sardinia
The heavy effects of climate change on the Island. In the short term: showers coming, instability at Easter and Easter Monday
Hot summers with increased temperatures in both average and maximum values, dry winters. And violent downpours. This is what lies in the destiny of Sardinia.
The island is located in a "transition area between the Sahara desert and central-northern Europe": among the areas most affected by Mediterranean fever, the disease resulting from climate change. This was stated by Pier Paolo Roggero, former director of the Agriculture department of the University of Sassari and member of the scientific committee (experts from the two Sardinian universities) which developed, together with the Department of the Environment, the text of the "Regional strategy of adaptation to climate change".
«If nothing is done» to slow down emissions into the atmosphere, «within a century the sea will rise by one meter. It means that the cities on the coast, such as Cagliari for example, will suffer heavy consequences": this is the opinion of the president of the Italian meteorological society, Luca Mercalli.
In the shortest term, however, it will be a rainy week - between tonight and tomorrow the western sectors of the island will be particularly affected - with residual rainfall at Easter and Easter Monday.
