At the mercy of the heat is this week the Italy, while at the same time fires are raging in the south of the country, focusing on Sicily and Calabria where a very important geopark is threatened.
According to the Athenian-Macedonian News Agency, the country is experiencing the hottest week of summer, with temperatures already exceeding 47 degrees Celsius in Sicily, near Syracuse. The Italian National Meteorological Service expects that today the record Highest temperature in the country: 48.5 degrees Celsius in 1990 in Sicily.
Mercury is expected to reach 49 to 50 degrees Celsius today in southeastern Sicily and 39 to 40 degrees Calabria, Puglia and Campania.
In Calabria and in Sicily firefighters had to carry out 300 operations in the last 12 hours, while seven Canadair have been mobilized since dawn.
The Madonnie Mountains, near the Sicilian capital, Palermo, have been under siege for days by flames from high winds and high temperatures, with fires destroying homes, industrial facilities and farmland.
Sicilian Governor Nelo Mesumeci has called for a state of emergency in the Madonna Mountains. For his part, Italian Agriculture Minister Stefano Patuanelli is expected to visit the region today to meet with the mayors of the worst-hit areas.
In Calabria, flames threaten Aspromonte, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The president of the non-governmental organization WWF Italy demanded yesterday, Tuesday, “the immediate intervention of additional air means”. “Otherwise it will be too late and we will lose a legacy of incalculable value,” he complained.
He also called for “increased surveillance in the field because in the areas where the fires have been extinguished, there are resurgences, for which criminals without moral barriers are obviously responsible.”
A 35-year-old farmer was arrested in Sardinia yesterday, Tuesday, on charges of arson. Only 13 fires were recorded in the area yesterday, with aerial means of extinguishing intervening in six of them.
In the coming days, the anticyclone responsible for the heat wave in Italy, named Lucifer (Lucifer), is expected to move north, where the weekend temperature is expected to reach 39 to 40 degrees Celsius in Tuscany and Latium.
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