Italy: Coldiretti reports 10 extreme events per day, the record of the decade

The latest wave of bad weather with storms, tornadoes and patchy flooding in cities and the countryside is causing the number of extreme events to rise, with an average of almost 10 per day in 2023, the record of the decade. This is what emerges from Coldiretti's analysis of Eswd data (European Sever Weather Database) in reference to the damage caused by rain and storms in the North and Center where the weather alert was triggered. 2023 - underlines Coldiretti - is the black year for Italian agriculture with damages exceeding 6 billion euros due to storms, tornadoes, water bombs, hailstorms with explosions of violent bad weather interspersed with African heat waves. The bad weather - Coldiretti specifies - hits Italy in 2023 which ranks second among the warmest years since 1800 with a temperature 0.82 degrees higher than the historical average since records began in 1800 , according to Isac Cnr data in the first nine months with the climatic anomaly which was even +1.02 degrees in ...