Italy saw an average of nearly 14 extreme events per day in June, including cloudbursts, hailstorms, floods and tornadoes that struck in a patchwork pattern with severe damage in cities and the countryside. This is according to an analysis by Coldiretti, the largest association representing Italian agriculture, based on data from the European severe weather database (Eswd). "The year 2023 - Coldiretti stresses in a press release - has in fact been marked, so far, first by a severe drought that has compromised field crops and then, in the last two months, by the multiplication of extreme weather events, heavy rainfall and low temperatures. We are facing the obvious consequences of climate change in Italy as well, where the exceptionality of weather events is now the norm, with a trend toward tropicalization, manifested by a higher frequency of violent events, seasonal displacements, short and intense rainfall and the rapid transition from sunshine to bad weather, with significant temperature swings that compromise crops in the fields with losses of national agricultural production and damage to structures and infrastructure in the countryside, which in 2023 will exceed a total of 6 billion euros last year".