Heatwave: Italy in the path of the anticyclone

(ANSA) - ROME, JUL 13 - Unlike previous heatwaves, in which the African anticyclone only touched our peninsula, the trajectory of the current mass of warm air is more eastward and is therefore fully impacting Italy, an expert said Monday. "Currently, the hot air rising from Africa is moving northeastward from Algeria," Lorenzo Giovannini, an atmospheric physicist at the University of Trento, told ANSA. "Sardinia is particularly affected, and, towards midweek, the Tyrrhenian coast will also be...

By ANSA