Red dot heat until mid-August, record high tomorrow with alert 3 in 22 cities
Yellow alert for bad weather today in Piedmont, Valle d'Aosta and Alto Adige. In Piedmont zero temperature at 5,206 metres, record close to being reached
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The heat peak arrives. Today the number of red dot cities rises to 19. And tomorrow there will be 22. Yellow alert for bad weather today in Piedmont, Valle d'Aosta and Alto Adige. So, the days leading up to August bank holiday will be scorching hot, in a crescendo that will reach its climax on the eve of the holiday, Wednesday 14 August, with a record 22 cities on the red dot from North to South.
According to the Ministry of Health's latest bulletin on heatwaves, on Monday 12 August, an alert level 3 (the highest level) was predicted for 17 capitals - out of 27 monitored: Ancona, Bologna, Bolzano, Brescia, Cagliari, Campobasso, Florence, Frosinone, Genoa, Latina, Palermo, Perugia, Rieti, Rome, Turin, Trieste and Verona. Also on the 12th, five other centres were expected to receive an orange alert - Bari, Milan, Naples, Venice Viterbo - and five others a yellow alert (Catania, Civitavecchia, Messina, Pescara, Reggio Calabria).
Today, 13 August, the number of red dot cities will rise to 19: Milan and Naples will be joined by Ancona, Bologna, Bolzano, Brescia, Cagliari, Campobasso, Florence, Frosinone, Genoa, Latina, Palermo, Perugia, Rieti, Rome, Turin, Trieste and Verona. The orange sticker remains for Bari, Venice and Viterbo, while the yellow stickers remain unchanged.
On the 14 August, the map of Italy will be dotted almost entirely with red dots, if we take out the five centres that remain yellow dots even on the eve of the August bank holiday: the highest level of alert will also affect Bari, Venice and Viterbo - in addition to Ancona, Bologna, Bolzano, Brescia, Cagliari, Campobasso, Florence, Frosinone, Genoa, Latina, Milan, Naples, Palermo, Perugia, Rieti, Rome, Turin, Trieste and Verona - for a total of 22 cities.
Sima del Bianco above zero for 33 hours in a row
The heat that is affecting Italy was also felt at the summit of Mont Blanc, which measures 4,805 metres. "The air temperature, recorded by the automatic weather station located at Colle Major at 4,750 metres above sea level, remained above zero for 33 consecutive hours, from midnight on 10 August to 9am on 11 August." Thus in a post Arpa Valle d'Aosta. Such high temperature values 'were also recorded, for more limited periods, on 5 August (five consecutive hours), 18 and 30 July'.
