Bad weather is coming, now the nightmare is hail

Strong thunderstorms and plummeting temperatures are expected in the next few days:Coldiretti raises the alarm on the risk of hail

ROME – “With the arrival of bad weather after the great heat in the countryside it is hail warning which is the most feared adverse climatic event in agriculture due to the irreversible damage it causes to crops in the field".This is what Coldiretti states in reference to theweather warning in the northern regions for strong storms after a long period of drought and record temperatures.According to forecasts, on Sunday 27 August we will finally be able to say goodbye to the heat, since a mass of cold air of Atlantic origin will arrive over Italy which will lead to a clear change in climatic conditions.Between Sunday and Monday, there will be in various regions of Italy a temperature drop of over 10 degrees.

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“THE CLIMATE IS BECOMING TROPICALISING”

“We are faced with - underlines Coldiretti - ad a clear tendency towards tropicalisation with a higher frequency of violent demonstrations, seasonal shifts, short and intense rainfall and the rapid transition from hot to bad weather.

2023 IN THE TOP TEN WARMEST YEARS EVER

The new wave of bad weather is indeed arriving a 2023 which so far ranks in Italy in the top ten of the hottest years ever with a temperature 0.67 degrees higher than the historical average which ranks it in third place among the highest ever recorded in the period from 1800, when the surveys began, according to Coldiretti's analysis of Isac Cnr data in the first seven months of 2023 from which it is also highlighted that for northern Italy it was the second warmest year, with the anomaly of the period that was a good +0.86 degrees above average“.

CRAZY CLIMATE, DROUGHT AND THEN EXTREME EVENTS

“2023 - continues Coldiretti - was marked by crazy weather with a severe drought which compromised the crops in the field and then for a few months from the multiplication of extreme weather events, abundant rainfall and low temperatures and finally from scorching heat in July and at the end of August“, he concludes.