While the Copernicus Observatory confirms that January was the hottest month ever, a historic overtaking is expected between Naples and Cairo: in the next few days, the temperature of the Campania capital will exceed that of the Egyptian capital by one degree.
With 18 degrees, Naples will be just one degree cooler than Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia. This scenario emerges after the recent storms that hit north-eastern Sicily and Ionian Calabria, in a climate context that sees the Mediterranean Sea still very warm (between 16°C on the southern Italian coasts and 18°C on the Greek, Middle Eastern and North African coasts).
These conditions once again expose the territory to the risk of extreme events, with the imminent arrival of a front stormy coming from the coasts of the Maghreb, which will first affect Sicily and Calabria, before moving north.
But the storms are coming tomorrow
The weather maps from the ECMWF (European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts) do not bode well.
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In the provinces of Messina and Catania, heavy rains last weekend, with accumulations exceeding 100 millimeters (up to almost 200 mm in some areas), caused several streams to flood, some of which overflowed, such as the Zafferia, which submerged the town of the same name with mud and debris. Among the rivers that flooded were the Pagliara, the Niceto, the Fiumedinisi, the Savoca, the Cozzi, the Santa Venera and the San Giovanni.
To counteract this situation, however, there is the scarcity of rain in the internal areas of Sicily, where only a few monitoring stations have recorded double-digit cumulative rainfall in the last 48 hours, concentrated mainly in the provinces of Catania, Syracuse, Ragusa and part of Trapani.
The same Mediterranean cyclone caused hailstorms and torrential rains with accumulations of over 100 millimetres of rain, which also hit the provinces of Reggio Calabria, Catanzaro and Crotone, causing torrents such as the Fiumarella to overflow and numerous landslides.
“Extreme weather events continue to occur throughout the Peninsula, to which the country responds with culpable distraction, favoring emergency interventions over prevention,” said Francesco Vincenzi, President of the National Association of Consortia for the Management and Protection of Land and Irrigation Water (ANBI). “In Italy, we still do not perceive the change of pace needed to adapt to the climate crisis, which instead seems to finally enter the European agenda.”
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