Weather, Italy divided: truce in the North, extreme heat in the South until September

Once the wave of bad weather which especially hit Tuscany, Liguria, Lombardy and Trentino has passed, and which will lose intensity over the weekend, in the North the climate will be more liveable and unstable. In this part of the peninsula, in fact, the "37-38 degree phase" is essentially closed. In the Center the heat "will be moderate and typically summer". The South, however, will continue to be gripped by the heat: "The African anticyclone will resist oppressively until the beginning of September, with new extreme highs of 40-42 degrees". It is a photograph of an Italy divided into three bands taken by Lorenzo Tedici, meteorologist responsible for media at iLMeteo.it. According to Tedici, it is still too early to say goodbye to the anomalous temperatures that have hit the country on several occasions since the end of May.

After a few days of respite, the red stickers return to the South. The maximum alert - the third level, which indicates emergency conditions with possible negative effects also on the health of healthy and active people and not only on that of risk subgroups - is expected over the weekend in Bari and Palermo, confirming the persistence of greater critical issues in the South compared to the North. The Ministry of Health bulletin had not recorded any red marks since August 16th.

In the Apulian capital, according to estimates by the National Competence Center for the Prevention of the Effects of Heat on Health of the Civil Protection Department, on Saturday and Sunday the maximum temperature, from 29 and 28 degrees at 8 am, will reach the perceived one of 37 degrees.

On Saturday 22 August there are no orange stickers, but numerous urban centers will be "yellow": Ancona, Campobasso, Catania, Latina, Messina, Naples, Pescara, Reggio Calabria and Rome. Frosinone will be added to the list on Sunday, but in Pescara the alert level will return to green.

For the entire duration of the weekend, most of the municipalities monitored by the Ministry of Health will remain "green", including Bologna, Bolzano, Brescia, Cagliari, Civitavecchia, Florence, Genoa, Milan, Perugia, Rieti, Turin, Trieste, Venice, Verona and Viterbo.