The African anticyclone is once again consolidating on the Mediterranean and on Italy, with a consequent new heat wave on Italy. The first weekend of August therefore promises to be hot , with peaks of heat even over 40 degrees on the island. And no cloud can be glimpsed on the horizon: according to the Cagliari meteorologist Alessandro Gallo it will continue in the next few days "with the sense of discomfort caused by the heat, with a medium-high percentage of humidity, a heat index that fluctuates from severe fatigue to possible stroke of heat ”and“ with no significant variation expected ”.

The long- awaited rains do not arrive , not even in the north of the country, where the drought situation becomes alarming with the Po which marks yet another negative record in the flow rate, so much so that an old war device dating back to the Second World War has returned to light from the dry.

In Sardinia the situation is different, because the stored water resources are higher than those needed . The Institutional Committee (chaired by the President of the Region, Christian Solinas) has acknowledged that there are much more than 731.5 million cubic meters of water in the reservoirs (i.e. 731.5 billion liters, more or less) of which consumption is expected throughout 2022, for any purpose.

Yet the weather report is very scary.

The suffocating heat and temperatures of up to forty degrees expected for the next few days have alarmed the Sardinian countryside : in fact, there are seasonal fruit and vegetable crops at risk , without forgetting the harvest, which began a few days ago but ready to go live between the end of August and the beginning of September. Tons of products every day are therefore cooking in the fields in the sun, scorched by a heat that even the most experienced farmers have not remembered for a long time.

“This heat forces us to anticipate the fruit and vegetable harvests by at least ten days, but against temperatures of 40 degrees there is little else to do. We can only try to plan the harvest in a timely manner , amid a thousand difficulties given the lack of personnel, because every day of delay can be irreparable ”explains Salvatore Lotta, commercial director of the agricultural Op Campidanes. “The next few weeks will be crucial”, confirms Aldo Buiani, agronomist and oenologist at Coldiretti. "Although the water reserves are far superior to previous years, but also to those of other regions beyond the Tyrrhenian Sea, we will not be able to do without rainfall in the second half of August".

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