Weather, third wave of heat coming: record heat even at night

The meteorological summer has yet to officially begin, but Italy is already in the grip of heat and mugginess with temperatures well beyond the reference climatic averages. Data in hand we are only in mid-June and yet we are already experiencing the third African heat wave after the two that arrived early in the month of May. We are struggling with yet another climatic weather madness, a clear sign that something at the atmospheric level has broken due to increasingly pressing global warming. In June, the average maximum temperatures of most Italian cities are around 25/26 ° C, but we have been recording values ​​above 30 ° C since the beginning of the month. A data in some ways worrying and the cause is the increasing presence of the African anticyclone which this year woke up a month early, stealing from the spring thirty days that would have been vital for the need for rain. our country. In addition to the anomalous heat, drought is also starting to become a serious problem, especially for some regions. temperatures over almost all of Italy. After a very short slightly less hot parenthesis, expected for Saturday 18, already from Sunday 19 it will be increasingly hot and the peak will probably reach it between the Summer Solstice (Tuesday 21), which risks becoming the hottest since 2003 (June hottest in Italian climatic history together with 2019) and Wednesday 22. The thermal values ​​in this phase will touch peaks of 40 ° C in many cities of the Po Valley, such as Bologna, Ferrara, up to 37/38 ° C in Milan, Mantua , Pavia, Bolzano, 36 ° C in Rome, Terni, Florence. It will also start to get very hot in the South, with values ​​above 36 ° C in almost all cities. In short, many records could collapse and therefore mark a piece of climatic history of our country.Lorenzo Tedici, meteorologist of the site www.iLMeteo.it warns that this third wave of African heat will also make us experience the annoying tropical nights. This term has a very specific meaning: it is a climatic indicator that identifies the number of nights in the year with a minimum temperature greater than 20 ° C. It is an international value defined by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), it is used to monitor the ongoing climate changes. In fact, in recent decades we have been witnessing an ever-increasing number of these nights, underlining the process of climate warming that also affects our country. Well, in the next few days, thermal values ​​of even 26/28 ° C up to midnight are expected in many cities in the Center-North. A possible change in the weather is conceivable from Thursday 23 June, when cooler currents from Northern Europe could drop by latitude until reaching Italy. IN DETAIL Friday 17th. In the north: sun and heat. Center: thunderstorms between Abruzzo, Lazio and Molise. In the south: afternoon thunderstorms in the Apennines. Saturday 18th. In the north: sunny, a little less hot. Center: prevailing sun. In the south: some afternoon thunderstorms over Sicily and Calabria. Sunday 19. In the north: all sun and rising heat. Center: largely sunny. In the south: irregular clouds only on the mountains. From Monday Scipione stronger and stronger, record temperatures.