Four dead by the African heat wave suffered by Italy

At least four people died in Italy because of the great heat wave that ravages the country.

A 75 -year -old man suddenly decompensated in Budoni, on the northeast coast. The emergency service came to the place with an ambulance and the Areus helicopter, but nothing could be done.

In San Teodoro, on the beach of Lu Impicto, not far from the place of the first tragedy, a 57 -year -old man also decompensated. In this case it was also called the emergency service, which tried in vain to rescue man. In Sardinia, temperatures in recent days exceeded 40 degrees. Both were holiday tourists in Sardinia, victims of heat, dejected by decompensations on the beach.

The 75 -year -old man who died in Budoni, on the northeast coast of the island, was originally from Terni. The 57 -year -old man who died in San Teodoro, on the beach of Lu Impicto, a short distance from the place of the first tragedy, was from Treviso.

A 70-year-old truck driver was found dead inside his vehicle shortly after 6:30 (local time), arrested in a rest area at the A4 Sirmione-Peschiera del Garda, in the province of Brescia. The man was sick and it is not ruled out that the heat of the last days has influenced the incident. In the place, in addition to a patrol of the road police of Padua Sur, firefighters and emergency services intervened.

An 85 -year -old man who entered the San Martino Hospital for dehydration and comorbidities died due to heart failure. Genoese Polyclinic reported that nine income from dehydration and alterations related to high fever were recorded today. In all cases, they were elderly patients, fragile and with comorbidities.

In Italy, temperatures are still scorching in these first days of July, but extreme weather phenomena are coming in the north.

Thunderstorms, hailstorms and strong wind bursts are expected already on Thursday in the north and part of the center of the country.

“With the increase in temperatures,” explains the Ilimeteo.it meteorologist, Mattia Gussoni, “also increases the evaporation of our seas, the real potential energy that storm systems take advantage of to trigger devastating hailstorm and strong wind bursts.”

From today to next weekend, he says, «Italy will be between the sword and the wall: on the one hand, the fresh and unstable currents in altitude that descend from northern Europe and that will touch part of the northern regions; on the other, the abrasing air masses of subtropical origin (from Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia) that for several weeks have been stationary on the Mediterranean ».

This intense heat, in addition to causing physical discomfort to people, also affects the temperature of the seas, with values ​​that already reach 27-28 ° C in much of the basins, 4/5 ° C above average.

This, specifies, “translates into greater potential energy at stake, or the necessary fuel for the development of extreme phenomena.”

“In the next few days, the entry of unstable currents to great altitude, driven by a cyclone present between the United Kingdom and Scandinavia, will significantly destabilize the atmosphere, causing violent storms in the Alps and the pre -mayor, with local overflows towards the nearby plains,” he says.

In the rest of the country, however, the African anticyclone will continue to dominate: maximum temperatures of up to 36-38 ° C are expected in the plains of the tri-veneto, Tuscany, Lacio, Apulia, Sardinña and Sicily. Latin Ansa.

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