Windstorms, lightning, storms, and hailstorms caused damage in cities and the countryside, exposing roofs, felling trees, and causing landslides, landslides, and flooding. This is what the analysis of ESWD (European severe weather database) data on the wave of bad weather triggered by cyclone Poppea in just two days following a long period of anomalous heat shows. Italy is split in two by bad weather that has even brought snow back to the north and by high temperatures and a lack of precipitation in the south, which – according to Coldiretti – have dried out the land in Sicily, making it more susceptible to forest and rural fires. It will take at least 15 years to completely restore the green areas destroyed by the flames, with damage exceeding ten thousand euros per hectare between immediate costs for extinguishing and reclamation and long-term costs for reconstitution of the devastated areas' environmental and economic systems. We are witnessing a clear tropicalization trend, with increased frequency of violent manifestations, seasonal lags, short and intense rainfall, and a rapid transition from heat to bad weather. The cyclone actually arrives in a 2023 that has been classified so far in Italy as one of the ten warmest years on record, with a temperature higher than 0.67 degrees above the historical average, which places it in third place among the highest ever recorded in the period since 1800, when the surveys began, according to the analysis of Coldiretti on Isac Cnr data in the first seven months of 2023, from which it is also noted that for Northern Italy, 2023 was the second warmest year, with the anomaly of the period being +0.86 degrees above average.
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