‘Italy no longer has four seasons’: Intense heatwave grips the country | World News | Sky News


Capital city Rome hit a high of 35C (95F) on Saturday and could see temperatures as high as 42C (107.6F) on Tuesday – when other Italian cities could be even hotter.

Gianluca Borsari from the National Police Rome River department said the River Tiber had dropped several metres over the last few years and is particularly low at the moment.
Italy’s minister for the environment, climate change and energy security, Gilberto Pichetto Fratin, told me that Italy’s geographic position means it must accept and adapt to generally hotter temperatures and more frequent and severe extreme weather.
He said that in recent years there had been an “explosion” of awareness of climate change among the Italian population as the country is increasingly impacted.
“Even if Italy is not the world’s main polluter, we still need to do whatever it takes to achieve climate neutrality goals together with the European Union,” he said.


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