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16 Italian Cities on Red Alert as Heatwave Peaks

Italy has been given red extreme heat warnings for 16 cities throughout the country, as it experienced the hottest day of the current heatwave on Friday.

Milan (Northern Italy) is expected to be the worst hit, with temperatures reaching 40 degrees celsius, while Rome and Bologna are hovering at 39 degrees.

Florence, Genoa, Turin and Verona are other major cities under a cautionary heatwave red alert for the weekend, issued by Italy’s health ministry.

According to the national weather website ilmeteo.com, temperatures have been at least two or three degrees above the seasonal average since May.

In addition to the heatwave, there have been hundreds of fires across Italy in recent weeks, the largest in central Tuscany where 860 hectares had burned since Monday.

Some, 87 firefighters were on the ground after another night spent battling the flames, helped by reinforcements from the Lombardy and Piedmont regions. Water dumps from helicopters were underway, authorities said.

Prosecutors in Lucca have opened an investigation over the cause of the fire.

Emer Roche
Emer Roche
Emer has over 10 years experience working for Irish magazines, supplements, websites and creative agencies. She’s written features for U Magazine, Image Magazine and theheyday.ie, across a range of subjects such as women’s interest, travel, culture, news and interviews. She also has a portfolio of commercial writing for creative agencies, such as RTE.ie and Originate Creative. Emer is a Dublin native with part of her heart in Ardmore, County Waterford. She lives in Dublin 7 with her husband, two kids, dog and cat.

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