Third October, in Cagliari tropical nights and 30 degrees. Beaches and hotels are full

Even in Sardinia, as in much of Italy, thanks to Scipio the African is third in October .

In Cagliari tropical nights , during the day temperatures that reach 30 degrees and push residents and tourists to crowd the beaches: in Pula the bathing season is never over, and the accommodation facilities continue to reach unthinkable numbers while also celebrating pizzerias and restaurants.

Even in Villasimius bathing establishments still open: " Maybe until mid-November ", hope the managers of the beaches. And the restaurants also work a lot in the evening, because there are still many foreigners in the country. Not to mention the hotels open at least until the end of the month, some without a free room.

The heat, meteorologists say, will continue at least up to the All Saints' Bridge and is affecting the whole of Italy.

A thermal situation in late October "at almost summer levels, from early July" and a sea temperature of 23-24 degrees, which is generally recorded between late June and early July, says Bernardo Gozzini, director of the Lamma consortium (Environmental Monitoring and Modeling Laboratory) which brings together the Tuscany Region and the National Research Council (Cnr). In particular, the expert points out, the freezing point in the next few days will exceed 3 thousand meters.

To cause this particular meteorological and climatic situation from a thermal point of view, explains Gozzini, the low pressure that insists on the Atlantic Ocean , which until the end of the month seems not to want to give up, and which has attracted hot air of African origin rising over the area Mediterranean.

An October warmer than the norm "is not a very rare event - underlines Gozzini - the peculiarity is that it is an increasingly frequent phenomenon and the summers are getting longer and longer". As for next winter, looking at the latest surveys of the EU satellite observation platform Copernicus, managed by the European Commission and the European Space Agency (ESA), the expert recalls that the coming season will be characterized by a mild climate with a wave cold before Christmas .

(Unioneonline / D)