Aheatwave is set to hit Italy this week with temperatures rising as high as 37 degrees Celsius, forecasters have said.
Mattia Gussoni, meteorologist for the website www.iLMeteo.it, confirmed the formation of a real atmospheric block for the next few days: it will be a particular configuration that will see the African anticyclone extend for several thousand kilometers (from South to North) to protect almost the entire Mediterranean basin and a good part of Europe, from Gibraltar to Scandinavia.
In fact, explains the expert, "the weather conditions in this situation will remain almost immobile for many days, with lots of sun and no rain in most regions.
Our country will find itself in the heart of this sort of high pressure bubble".
Temperatures will rise several degrees above the reference climatic averages, with suffocating heat over more than half of Italy: in particular, maximum peaks are expected (especially from Tuesday 10th onwards) up to 36-37°C in Tuscany, Lazio, Molise, Basilicata, Puglia, Sicily, Sardinia and Calabria (locally up to 40°C in the internal areas of the two Major Islands).
