Weather – Sakis Arnaoutoglou: The anti-cyclone Lucifer in Italy and the record of 48.8 points – “He is not coming to Greece”

Sakis Arnaoutoglou presents in a post on Facebook the anticyclone Lucifer that set the pan-European record of 48.8 points in Italy.

His post in detail Saki Arnaoutoglou: “Cyclone” Lucifer “breaks heat record in Italy and in Europe! (does not come to Greece!)

At 48.8 degrees today the mercury in Sicily! If it is officially confirmed by the EMY of Italy then it will be a new European heat record!

Europe today recorded the highest maximum temperature ever recorded by a meteorological station on the continent. The Sicilian regional authorities recorded a temperature of 48.8 degrees Celsius today, Wednesday 11 August 2021, at a time when the anticyclone nicknamed “Lucifer” sweeps the country.

This temperature was recorded near Syracuse, with the temperature not yet officially confirmed by the Italian National Meteorological Service!

In southern Italy, the cyclone “Lucifer” is expected to cause a further rise in mercury even above 39ºC and up to 42ºC, while at the weekend, temperatures are expected to reach 40ºC in the central regions of Tuscany and Lazio, which includes Rome .

On Friday, 15 cities should be on red alert (including Rome, Florence or Palermo) due to the heat, according to the Italian meteorological service ANSA, and today Wednesday there were already eight in this state. When a city is on red alert it means that the heat is so intense that it endangers the general population, not just the elderly or the weak.

The capital Rome is already beginning to feel the effects of the heat with tourists looking for shade and water.

The heatwave has raised fears of more fires, with Sicily with the Calabria region already facing several this summer, many as a result of arson, but also due to drought and very dry and hot winds at times.

Firefighters said that today, Wednesday, they have recorded 300 fires in the last 12 hours, and a 77-year-old man has lost his life! Seven Canadair aircraft were mobilized to fight the fires.

In Calabria, fires threaten the Aspromonte Mountains, which are designated by UNESCO as an area of ​​international geological importance.

For several days, flames fueled by wind and heat destroyed La Madonia, a mountainous area near Palermo, the capital of Sicily, and destroyed farmland, homes and industrial buildings.

“The governor of Sicily, Nello Musumeci, has called for a state of national emergency in La Madonia.”

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