Fri 25 August 2023:
August 23 will be remembered as the hottest day in the history of Milan, or at least since the Milan Brera station records temperature data, i.e. since 1763: with an average daily temperature of 33 °C, Wednesday 23 August the Milan Brera station exceeded its previous record of 32.8 °C, recorded on 11 August 2003.
New record also for the highest minimum temperature, Thursday 24 August with 28.9 °C, while the maximum value reached i 37.8 °C without affecting the current record of 11 August 2003 of 38.3 °C. This was reported by Arpa Lombardia. Overall, Wednesday 23rd and Thursday 24th were the hottest days of the summer also in the rest of Lombardy: 39°C in Cremona and Pavia, 38°C in Mantua, Como and Brescia, 37°C in Bergamo and Sondrio, 36 °C in Lecco and 35 °C in Varese.
Locally, values above 40 °C were recorded, as in the case of some localities in the Pavese Apennines, in Canevino and Ponte Nizza, or as in the Cremona area in Pieve San Giacomo. Intense and anomalous heat not only in the plains, but also in the Alps: since 19 August, temperatures have exceeded 20 °C every day at 2200 metres, while maximum values of up to 16 °C have been recorded at 3000 metres.
On the valley floor, at 1200 meters of Bormio (SO), the temperature reached 33 °C, as much as 27 °C at 1700 meters of Santa Caterina Valfurva (SO). The first thunderstorms will arrive on the afternoon of Saturday 26 in the Alps, Pre-Alps and western high plains, and they could already be very intense with medium-large hail and strong gusts of wind. Sunday 27 unstable weather and increasing cloudiness throughout the day in the Alps,
Pre-Alps and western plains: intermittent thunderstorms, still with the possibility of intense phenomena, and maximum temperatures dropping to 25-28 °C. On the rest of the region less probability of thunderstorms and maximum temperatures of 28-30 °C in Oltrepò Pavese, 30-35 °C on the eastern plain. On Monday 28, however, all of Lombardy will be affected by the passage of the perturbation: sky everywhere very cloudy or overcast with widespread showers and thunderstorms and accumulations of rain from moderate to heavy. In the lowlands minimum temperatures between 19 and 23 °C, maximum between 23 and 27 °C.
On Monday, Italy’s main agriculture union Coldiretti said that this year is already the third-hottest in Italy since record-keeping began in 1800, while last year was the hottest.
Although the 2022 heatwaves were longer, this year’s heatwaves have been more intense, setting record temperatures. Last month was the hottest July ever recorded in Italy.
This year has also seen more intense weather-related events. Coldiretti said that so far this year, Italy has experienced an average of nearly 11 extreme weather events per day. This has caused at least 6 billion euros worth of damage in the agricultural sector alone.
In addition to high temperatures, extreme weather events have included hailstorms, tornados, flash floods, and wind storms.
Elsewhere, the Italian weather website Il Meteo reported that a new “zero point” – the altitude at which the temperature falls to zero degree Celsius – has been recorded at 5,328 meters.
The new record was set above the Novara Cameri radio-sounding station between Sunday night and Monday morning. Previously, the record zero point was at 5,298 meters, in Switzerland. The new higher “zero point” means that the glaciers will melt further.
SOURCE: INDEPENDENT PRESS AND NEWS AGENCIES
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