Rome, June 28, 2021 – Il hot andGrandpa they will give no respite. The weather forecast? In the next few days new soaring temperatures, which in the South they will exceed altitude 45 degrees. All the fault of the African anticyclone, which remains well positioned on Italy. Ilmeteo.it announces that from today temperatures will record a general surge at North Center with values that will rise up to peaks of 36 degrees in Emilia Romagna, 37 in Tuscany as in Florence and up to 35 a Roma. The hottest phase for the South is expected between the days of Wednesday 30 June and Thursday 1 July: the hottest areas we will find them in Sicily where the mercury column will return to caress the threshold of 45-46 degrees, as for example in Syracuse. They will follow Calabria and the Puglia, with the threshold set at 40-41 degrees. On the rest of the South, the maximum values will fluctuate anywhere around 35-36 degrees.
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The heat even at night
3bmeteo underlines that it will be hot even at night. “Unfortunately also values of 26-27gradi which do not seem particularly high – the experts explain – with relative humidity of 75-80% they can involve even accentuated physical discomfort. “Situations of this type are announced for Turin, Milan, Bologna, Venice, Florence, Rome and in almost all the large cities of the South.
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Coldiretti: animals also suffer
In addition to humans, animals also suffer from the heat in homes and farms, Coldiretti warns. The cows with high temperatures they are producing up to about 15% less milk due to stress than in normal periods. If for pets like dogs and cats it is important to always guarantee water and make sure that they are always sheltered from the sun and in well-ventilated places, for the cows – underlines Coldiretti – the ideal climate is between 22 and 24 degrees, beyond this limit the animals eat little , drink a lot and produce less milk. To the rescue – notes Coldiretti – anti-heat countermeasures have already been taken in the stables where the drinking troughs work at full speed because every single animal has come to drink with the high temperatures of these days up to 140 liters of water a day against 70 of cooler periods. Cooling fans and showers also work to help withstand the heat better. The decrease in milk production is therefore also added – continues Coldiretti – to an increase in costs to the barn due to the greater consumption of water and energy that farmers have to support to help animals resist the siege of heat.
Drought emergency in the countryside
With the great heat – explains Coldiretti – it is patchy drought emergency in the countryside where farmers are forced to resort to emergency irrigation to save crops suffering from high temperatures, from vegetables to corn, from soy to tomatoes. With temperatures above 35 degrees, even the plants – explains the association – are at risk of water stress and heat stroke which impair fruit growth in trees, burn vegetables and damage cereals. The intervention with emergency irrigation is important – concludes Coldiretti – especially to allow small plants to survive which, having no developed roots, cannot reach the moist layer of the soil because the sudden change in temperature tends to form a crust on the surface.
Historic heat wave in Canada
A look abroad. Record heat wave in Canada: in Lytton, a village in British Columbia, the westernmost province, the thermometer marked 46.1 degrees Celsius, surpassing the previous record (45) set in Saskatchewan in 1937. The wave of heat hit the entire North West, including the city of Vancouver where 31 degrees were recorded and people poured onto the beach.
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