2022 hottest year in Italy since 1800
According to information from the National Research Council of Italy's Institute for Atmospheric Science, this year will be remembered as the warmest in the country's history since records began in 1800. (NRC). The spring, summer, and current winter have all seen record high temperatures, according to Bernardo Gozzini, director of the NRC's LaMMA meteorology group, who spoke to Xinhua. LaMMA experts claimed it is practically impossible for average temperatures to drop below those of 2018, which was the warmest year on record in Italy. The new record won't be official until the end of the year.
LaMMA first started stating that this year was likely to be the hottest on record in July. Temperatures in northern and central italy were reported to be 3.2 degrees Celsius higher than average in October, according to the report. In the meantime, the group noted that temperatures in the majority of southern and central Europe, including italy, were 5 to 7 degrees Celsius higher than typical in late December.
Italy has had a challenging year due to a prolonged summer drought that reduced water levels in the majority of Italy's major rivers by 75 percent and reduced agricultural output by 30 percent. Numerous deaths were caused by the intense heat. In July, a glacier in the Dolomites range of northern italy collapsed due to a lack of precipitation and unusually high temperatures.