Italy divided between frost and drought, islands without water

Italy is freezing but the drought alarm extends to the Islands with the request for a state of calamity in Sardinia due to the repercussions on the island's agro-pastoral system but also risks on the irrigation system for the next few months, while in Sicily the rainfall was the lowest for over a hundred years in the second half of the year 2023 according to the regional agrometeorological information service. This is what emerges from Coldiretti's monitoring of the anomalous climate trend at the beginning of the year after 2023 was officially classified as the hottest year ever recorded in Italy with an average temperature 1.14 degrees higher than the historical average of period 1991-2020 according to Isac Cnr. The arrival of the great cold along the Peninsula - underlines Coldiretti - affects the winter crops in the field such as cabbage, cabbage, chicory, and broccoli which can also withstand temperatures of a few degrees below zero but if the mercury column drops suddenly or ...