Beginning on Sunday, the African anticyclone will carry Italy through the warmest week of the year, with a top temperature of 45 degree Celsius.
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| Italy Heatwave Map of July 15, 2023 (Zoom Earth) |
Coming up is the warmest week of the year. On Monday, July 17, 2023, a heat wave directly from the Sahara desert is predicted to hit our peninsula. The consequences of this river of extremely hot subtropical air won't be felt until Tuesday, July 18, 2023.
In fact, that day is predicted to see record heat peaks over Italy, with peaks, particularly in the Center-South, projected to reach up to 50 degrees. Obviously, the warmest days of 2023. but undoubtedly the most recent of the following several years. For those who research the climate, extreme events of this kind are becoming commonplace.
The present anticyclonic promontory, which is to blame for the recent surge in temperatures, will hand the baton to the next one arriving from the Sahara on Sunday, July 16, 2023's evening. The African anticyclone will carry us through the warmest week of the year, much like Dante's figure Charon.
The peninsula will see a hot breeze that will cause temperatures to rise again. Meteorologists predict that the new anticyclone will send a bubble of hot air over Italy that will reach 30 degrees even at a height of 1500 meters; these temperatures are characteristic of the central regions of the Sahara desert.
Our peninsula will see temperatures that are between 10 and 12 degrees higher than the seasonal norm as a result of these circumstances. In the center and southern regions of Italy, such as Puglia, Sicily, and Sardinia, peaks of above 45 degrees are predicted. The province of Syracuse now holds the record for the hottest temperature ever recorded in Europe at 48 degrees, which was set in August 2021, but a new record is not completely out of the question.
Naturally, the impact of solar radiation will result in substantially greater temperatures on the earth. The rest will be handled by urban heat islands, which will cause a general sense of disquiet among the populace and prompt the Ministry of Health to issue a warning for extremely high temperatures. For numerous towns, including Bologna, Bari, Rome, Florence, and Campobasso, three red dot days are anticipated.
Leading specialists are now unable to predict how long the high heat will endure. The second half of next week will be marked by a few thunderstorms and showers in the North, which will bring down temperatures, predicts 3B Meteo. However, we could have to wait all week for the Central South. Generally speaking, the second 10 days of July should see temperatures above normal.
Every summer, a new world record for the Earth's temperature rise is broken, and phenomena like this are occurring more frequently.
Meteorologists describe how heat waves and increasing temperatures, which were unusual phenomena for nations like Italy until a few years ago, are now common occurrences. A tropicalization of the climate that has an impact on the sea and the water's surface temperature in addition to the soil.
The spike in sea water temperatures has been seen on a Copernicus project map from the European Space Agency. The Mediterranean Sea's water surface temperature is depicted on the map, and a week-to-week increase of five degrees Celsius is shown. This is a result of the heat waves' elevation in temperatures as well. The image taken from orbit is a component of an ESA experiment that attempts to track the rise in soil temperature over the course of the summer.
The European Space Agency has published photos of some European cities by photographing the ground temperature on June 18, 2023. Already a month ago the degrees of the ground had reached peaks between 45 and 48 degrees, as shown in this image of the center of Milan.
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| Land surface temperature of Milan city, Italy in 2022 (ESA) |
alarming events that cause thinkers to consider the future of the earth. These phenomena are a result of the current climate catastrophe and will happen more frequently throughout time. According to statistics that shows the increase in temperatures from year to year, it is not an exaggeration to say that this summer will be the coldest in the next years.
What effects do they have on us? Floods and desertification in some populated regions are only two of the consequences that global warming may have. Additionally, it is clear from the ESA data how much of our peninsula's terrain has already undergone the process of desertification, not to mention how the Alps' glaciers are melting.
Those who cannot afford to move will suffer extremely negative effects as a result of the alteration to the natural landscape. If the increasing tendency is sustained, many now livable zones may soon become uninhabitable.
For people who may leave their homes owing to the climate, many international organizations have already established a new category called a "climate refugee." In the worst-case scenario, a significant portion of the world's population will be required to migrate from regions that will no longer be livable, but it will be a luxury available only to those with the financial means to do so.
Source: TODAY/ Nicolo Zambelli