Italian authorities have triggered yet another red alert for 17 cities with the third punishing heatwave in just two months set to blast the country.
A dozen cities, Bologna, Bolzano, Florence, Frosinone, Latina, Palermo, Perugia, Rieti, Rome, Turin and Verona, were already hit with a red alert from yesterday.
Genoa, Milan, Naples, Trieste and Venice will be bumped into the red on Wednesday, meaning that residents are believed to be at maximum heat risk.
Temperatures in several of Italy’s biggest cities including Rome and Florence are already sitting at 38 degrees Celsius, with the mercury set to tip 40 degrees on Thursday.
A red alert means even the young, healthy and fit are warned to stay out of the sun from 10 am to 6 pm, such is the heat of the baking summer sun.
Storm warnings are also in effect in the southern regions of Calabria, Basilicata and Sicily.
Last month, several cities were forced to compete with widespread power cuts as temperatures reached a whopping 48 degrees Celsius in southern Italy.
Some half a million people were affected in and around the city of Catania, thanks to heat damage to underground cables.
The cuts meant that between 200,000 and 300,000 people were not only without power but also a supply of running water.
Separately, flights were grounded following a fire at the city’s main airport on July 16 that needed terminal-wide repairs.
The high temperatures in Italy come as Greece and one of Spain’s Canary Islands fight fierce wildfires.
Hot, dry and windy conditions are hindering the efforts of hundreds of firefighters fighting the fires, two of which have been burning for several days.
Europen Union officials have blamed climate change for the increasing frequency and intensity of wildfires in Europe, noting that 2022 was the second worst year for wildfire damage on record after 2017.
Authorities said the body of a man was recovered from a sheep pen in the area under evacuation, with local media saying the man apparently died of smoke inhalation while trying to save his livestock.
In the northeast of the country near the border with Turkey, powerful winds revived flames on several fronts in a major wildfire burning for a third day across forests and farmland near the town of Alexandroupolis.
Deputy Fire Chief Ionnis Arttopios said that several homes were destroyed over the weekend. Thirteen villages were evacuated, while more than 200 firefighters, assisted by 17 water-dropping aircraft, volunteers and the armed forces were battling the fire.
However, it’s always extremely hot in these countries around this time of the year, so this is nothing new.
I looked at my weather app this morning and in Turin, Italy this morning it was 30.5 Celsius going up to 35 Celsius by 4 pm, with sunny and light winds. It’s called summer and there’s nothing new about this.
So, do we really trust anything that the media tell us?
People must have friends from Italy that will probably tell you that it’s not as hot as the media tell us, but they will still spout their red and yellow warnings. Then we’re warned about heat waves – it’s a bit like the boy that cried wolf, and then we fall for the climate change propaganda hook, line and sinker.
It appears that this Climate Change is a con inflicted on us all by the elites and their lame selfish brains, and climate change is the latest pandemic that they can come up with, and if I went to Italy at this time of the year and it wasn’t hot I would feel that I’d been ripped off.
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