An anticyclone – a high-pressure area – named Cerberus (named after the monster from Dante’s Inferno) coming from the south will cause temperatures to rise above 40°C across much of Italy. This comes after a spring and early summer full of storms and floods.

The highest temperature in European history was broken on 11 August 2021, when a temperature of 48.8°C was recorded in Floridia, an Italian town in the Sicilian province of Syracuse. That record may be broken again in the coming days.

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      Fucking hell…! Where abouts are you? Bloody Dubai…? I burst into flames at anything above 28c, I am ginger and of Irish extraction mind, I’m built for fierce mild and drizzle.

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          Nah, not offended, but I can feel my skin crackling like a Pork Roast at the thought of 30c being jumper weather…shudder! Shite, I need a pint to calm down and cool off…