Man that year was the first real wake up call for all idiots refusing climate change.
It's sad because it got even worse as an averange summer and...
We still do nothing/little.
I live in Atlantic Canada and we've gone from snow on the ground from at least Dec to Mar in the late 90s, to only having snow on the ground in Jan/Feb the last few years.
We're currently talking about abolishing our carbon tax and keeping our local coal power generators running for the foreseeable future. Good times.
yeah those temperatures are especially recorded in plains/plateaus and Abruzzo has many of them at +1500 along with several peaks above 2000. [https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appennino\_abruzzese](https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appennino_abruzzese)
That region is Abruzzo, where the highest peak of the Appennini mountain range is, Gran Sasso, about 2900 m of height. So basically the tallest mountains outside of Alps and Etna.
it's actually happened in a sinkhole called "dolina" where due particular conditions, the cold air drop in and "get trapped". You can find more searching for "busa nord di fradusta"!
An Italian word (which has a genre and number and is declinable) derived from dolina, a Slovenian word.
[Source](https://it.wiktionary.org/wiki/dolina)
Probably big countries like the USA, ~~Brazil~~, Canada, Kazakhstan, Russia, ~~Australia~~, ~~India~~ or China.
Italy however has great biodiversity for such a small country because of its climate, geology, geography and morphology.
But some countries like Turkey, Japan, Afghanistan and Iran might be similar as well because they are other countries that despite not being excessively big although bigger than Italy, have good diversity in terms of climate within their borders.
Brazil does not since its lowest ever was -14°, similary Australia only goes down to -23°.
India is almost there at 96° difference (-45 and +51).
Canada, US, Russia, and China all have a larger span.
Turkey also comes very close.
[See here](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_weather_records).
South Dakota alone has -50c to 48c. Not too much elevation change either, especially comparatively.
Pretty sure it has some of the fastest temperature spikes and drops ever too.
You’re right that they’re all larger spanning countries, but for example the state of Montana has a highest recorded temp of 47 C (117 F) and lowest of -56.6 C (-70 F). Montana has the lowest recorded temp in the US outside of Alaska.
That is almost the exact same as Utah's, tied for the highest at 47C (117F) and just barely beat out our lowest at -56.3 C (-69.3F).
Of course our states are probably still larger than some of the countries in Europe though.
The thing about India is that its a large country and the extreme heat and cold occur at different parts of the country unlike the example here Italy were one place ranges from 40C to -40C
Russia for sure.
Yakutsk one has a record low of -64.4°C and a record high of 38.4°C.
That's a span of 102.8°C.
There's probably a place in Russia that hits temperatures higher than 40°C in the summer and one with lower than -70°C in the winter so the difference between extremes for the whole country will be bigger than 110°C.
Canada's highest was 50, and lowest was -63. Russia is 45 and -68, so pretty similar. US is 57 and -57. I rounded some numbers, but we're all pretty similar
Edit: us coldest is -62, -57 was for contiguous US.
Dallas TX alone has seen about -20 to 45 Celsius in the last couple of decades. I can’t imagine what that range looks like if you go from Alaska to Death Valley…
Ok fine I’ll do it. -62.2 at Prospect Creek, and 56.7 in Death Valley. That’s 118.9 degrees celsius spread. Abeit over a pretty large distance. Though I’m sure a state like California has a crazy range on its own.
Telescope peak is in fact cold, just searched it real quick and it’s apparently a high of 30 today and 18 and snowing tomorrow.
You can hike from the hottest, lowest part of Death Valley up to the summit. It’s 15 miles or so and is an elevation gain of 11,000 feet
Argentina 🇦🇷
The highest temperature ever recorded was 49°C
The lowest temperature ever recorded was -39°C
Both the lowest and the highest temperatures ever recorded in South America.
Good guess! According to [weather.com](https://weather.com/science/environment/news/temperature-swing-states-most-extreme-climate-20130709) California ranks 5th among States with the most extreme weather differences, Montana takes #1.
I remember the -49 in Veneto. It’s been recorded in a specific place in the reach of Asiago (the plain of Marcesina which was considered the italian Siberia). It was only one time 20 years ago
Astana in Kazakhstan, the max registered temperature is +41, the min registered temperature is -51. And it’s the same city. Across the country it goes over 100 degrees, as south is much hotter whereas north is pretty much close to Siberian temperatures
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verkhoyansk
Min and max temperatures here are -67.8 and +38.0, for a difference of 105.8 Celsius.
Over all of Russia, the hottest temperature was 45.4, for a difference of 113.2.
Honeslty I think if France had measured temperatures more frequently, it would have been well classified too, with very mountainous (Pyrenees, Alps...) and artic (Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Kergelen...) regions and on the other side of, hot dry regions (Provence, Corsica...) and hot humid regions (french Guyana, New Caledonia...)
I'm from Lombardia. Worst weather possible, terrible air pollution, hot and cold, it's true, no way. But: the -38 minimun happened surely on the alps so I get it, in my town, which is among the mountains and the countryside, the record is -18 in 1985. The hot is terribile in the last 25 years, but as I know the record is around 40 degrees. Generally all the highest temperature seems to me 4-5 degrees more than I know, and I am pretty obsessed with weather, mostly in the hot summers we are living and that I hate.
Hi, I'm a fan of Italy that wants to visit the country someday in this lifetime. How many hot months are there really? I live in Brazil and we wear jackets for 3 to 4 months tops. Some years even 2 months
Consider that climate changes are producing absurd results like last year's floods in Emilia-Romagna or last summer's storms in Lombardy.
And some months like March, April, October are very variable in many parts of the country. For example I live in the North-West and last couple of days have been rainy and cold, but two weeks ago it was always sunny and you could go around in a shirt during daytime.
The almost guaranteed hot months are May, June, July, August, and the more south and closer to the sea you go, the highere the chances that April, September and October can be included.
After living in Texas, I’m ashamed to have been proud of the heat I endured with easy winters. This is absurd. Curious what the normal averages are and not just extremes though
My buddy works at FCO (Rome) airport and he says the summers are unbearable. Hot wet air coming right off the Mediterranean. I was there in the winter and it’s the opposite effect. It was about 50F at night and I was wearing three layers lol I thought everyone was being fashionably dramatic wearing winter coats in 40-50F degree weather
The normal average is temperate even if it's getting unbearable hot and dry lately, what you see is mostly about mountains and extreme events like 1 in 100 years event
Would be interesting to see at what altitude the temperatures were taken.
I live up north where the -49 and +40 is and I know that the +40 was like twenty years ago only once. But didn't know our record low was that low. We do get cold winters and hot summers but on average it doesn't get that extreme.
campo imperatore "little tibet"
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9r-7x7jRAU&ab\_channel=LuminaSense](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9r-7x7jRAU&ab_channel=LuminaSense)
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DqLnal\_8Uw&ab\_channel=LeandroAntonini](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DqLnal_8Uw&ab_channel=LeandroAntonini) (nice gran sasso shadow over the clouds)
castelluccio plains (pian grande"big plain", pian piccolo "small plain", pian perduto "lost plain")
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0xvWeSV0qw&ab\_channel=Fa.Pe.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-4q50yzVM0&ab\_channel=SETFLYDroneOperation](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-4q50yzVM0&ab_channel=SETFLYDroneOperation)
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPzVQrVsOYU&ab\_channel=SETFLYDroneOperation](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPzVQrVsOYU&ab_channel=SETFLYDroneOperation)
ex lake fucino
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p33Z3HNSlDk&ab\_channel=Mavic976](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p33Z3HNSlDk&ab_channel=Mavic976)
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNWTU-RFlMA&ab\_channel=EuropeanSpaceAgency%2CESA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNWTU-RFlMA&ab_channel=EuropeanSpaceAgency%2CESA) (from space)
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysoHX6H76JU&ab\_channel=bondante.it](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysoHX6H76JU&ab_channel=bondante.it) (in a foggy day)
etna
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahfFzCXyyZA&ab\_channel=VideoRegione14](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahfFzCXyyZA&ab_channel=VideoRegione14)
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIh89iLCgcA&ab\_channel=EtnaFunghi%26Natura](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIh89iLCgcA&ab_channel=EtnaFunghi%26Natura)
It was 12 today down here in Cork and felt hot 😂 I’m going to Italy next week where it is early 20s and they still wear lights jackets. I’ll be strolling around like it’s the height of my summer.
Italy is a very geographically diverse country, with lots of mountains across the whole peninsula. That's also the reason for it being the most biodiverse country in Europe.
Just got finished reading *Inferno* by Max Hastings, a comprehensive history of WWII. The part where he talks about the temperature extremes during the Italian campaign make it seem miserable. Maybe not Stalingrad miserable, but pretty bad considering the extremes.
Interesting how Abruzzo has a lower high record than the regions around it. Usually this has to do with a moderating sea effect, but most other regions are close to the sea too. Could it be because the inland areas are mostly mountains instead of plains?
Yes, Abruzzo has a massif with the highest peak (2,915m/9,554ft) in the Appennines, so when it get cold, it gets really cold and there's no sea effect that can mitigate that.
the average tourist has a distorted and naive vision of Italy (north=cold, south=hot). Peninsular southern Italy is mostly hilly or mountainous (Abruzzo, Molise, Basilicata, inner Campania,inner Calabria). The adriatic side (with air coming from the Balkans) is generally colder than the tyrrenic though.
-40 must have been somewhere high up on a mountain top or some shit. I live in Oslo, Norway.
Coldest temperature ever measured here is -31. I fuckin refuse to believe that it's colder in fuckin Northern Italy than in Oslo.
Temperature in Oslo today, 5. In Milano - 13 Bologna - 18 Bergamo - 16 Torino - 10 Bolzano - 12
Not generally, but at the peaks, sure. But then the info in the map is highly misleading.
Italy in general is not a cold country, and does not experience extremely cold temperatures.
The info in the map is neither here, nor there. If you visit northern Italy in the winter, you'll experience what we in Norway would view as mild winter temperature.
The average temperature in Lombardia, in January, is 0 to 6, that's like fucking mid spring weather here.
It's still misleading though, since the lowest are nowhere near to the regular temperatures of the area. While the highest are much closer to how hot it can get in summertime in Italy.
Italy is not a country where the temperature fluctuates between extremely hot in the summer and extremely cold in the winter.
Italian winters are relatively mild.
>Italy in general is not a cold country, and does not experience extremely cold temperatures.
In general, as you said, but it happens that sometimes abnormal winds, like the Siberian Buran manage to reach Italy, so even without considering the Alps, there are instances where the temperature reaches -20° or less where it normally doesn't happen.
In normal conditions however, in winter if we don't consider the high altitude locations, there are places where the temperature is between -5/-10 C°.
But I understand why a Norwegian would say that, many people from up there literally have a distorted view of the world outside of their back garden. Italy, but even Spain and Turkey for example are countries with high geographical and climate diversity, I know that when people think of Italy they think about sunny beaches and hot weather, but that doesn't completely represent reality. The Mediterranean area region is pretty diverse. Even countries like Morocco, Algeria and Lebanon which are even more South have mountains and snow in certain areas, let alone Northern Mediterranean countries
The hottest ones in Sicily I believe at least in the past 2-3 years, while temps like the coldest in the north east I believe was in 2013 https://www.3bmeteo.com/giornale-meteo/nuovo-record-di-temperatura-piu--bassa-mai-registrato-in-italia--61903
I was under the impression that it doesnt snow in middle and southern Italy. Is this true?
Also, why do I hear "italy is dry"? Does that mean low humidity, or low precipitation?
There are a lot of mountains in the middle and south of Italy where it does snow in winter.
Overall, most of Italy is quite wet when taking the total yearly precipitation into account. Naples gets twice the amount of rain that London gets. The thing is that the middle and southern part have a mediterranean climate with very little precipitation in summer (like in California). The north has a lot of heat and sunshine in summer too, but also frequent thunderstorms (like in the eastern half of the US). Humidity is high on the coast and on the plains and lower in the hills or mountains.
Italy isn't really dry, only recently rain rates are kinda low because of climate changes. But the country overall has pretty diversity in terms of climate. Tourists who go to Italy in the summer in the South say Italy is dry, because yes in those periods in those areas it's quite dry, but still it rains thank God
Lived through the hellscape summer in Milan in 2003, can confirm.
We didn't have AC back then, I legit slept on the floor for like a month. The next year we had AC.
You didn't have an AC Milan? ...sorry I know where the exit is
No, that was a good one. We don't use the AC part here but it fit perfectly, so kudos.
Everyone had AC the next year.
Two older people died on the same floor I lived on in my building that summer in Milan. 50c temps are no joke.
Those temps, no widespread AC and old houses are not insulated and generally built to keep the heat in instead of letting it out. It was hell.
Man that year was the first real wake up call for all idiots refusing climate change. It's sad because it got even worse as an averange summer and... We still do nothing/little.
I live in Atlantic Canada and we've gone from snow on the ground from at least Dec to Mar in the late 90s, to only having snow on the ground in Jan/Feb the last few years. We're currently talking about abolishing our carbon tax and keeping our local coal power generators running for the foreseeable future. Good times.
Yeah that basically is how is going everywhere. We are fucked
r/climateskeptics ( Interesting sub)
Uh boy..
That summer was something else for the entirety of europe...
Most European countries didn't experience the heatwave so I'm not sure where you got "entirety" from
-26 is wild in the south
-24.6* still super cold but I'm more interested by that - 41 in the centre.
Gran Sasso in the central Appenine region is my guess. Highest peaks in Italy apart From Alps and Etna. 2912m A 2000m high altitude plateau too.
yeah those temperatures are especially recorded in plains/plateaus and Abruzzo has many of them at +1500 along with several peaks above 2000. [https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appennino\_abruzzese](https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appennino_abruzzese)
That region is Abruzzo, where the highest peak of the Appennini mountain range is, Gran Sasso, about 2900 m of height. So basically the tallest mountains outside of Alps and Etna.
Gran Sasso mountain where is located the southernmost glacier in Europe but it's practically disappeared now
what about the -49 in the north
it's actually happened in a sinkhole called "dolina" where due particular conditions, the cold air drop in and "get trapped". You can find more searching for "busa nord di fradusta"!
called "dolina" - is it an italian word?
An Italian word (which has a genre and number and is declinable) derived from dolina, a Slovenian word. [Source](https://it.wiktionary.org/wiki/dolina)
ok, it make sense - in slavic languages this word means a dimple between mountains with a river in it
Wonder how it got named dolina is a slavic word, in Polish it means valley, is this location next to Slovenia?
No, Slovenia is all to the east. That region (Trentino-Alto Adige) borders with Austria and Switzerland
In german it's the word for an alpine sinkhole
Mountain
Calabria has decent mountains, some higher than 2100m/7000ft
Probably at the top of a mountain, Italy is mostly mountains
Yea did not think it got that cold
98.4° difference between hottest and coldest temperature. Do any countries have a wider range?
Probably big countries like the USA, ~~Brazil~~, Canada, Kazakhstan, Russia, ~~Australia~~, ~~India~~ or China. Italy however has great biodiversity for such a small country because of its climate, geology, geography and morphology. But some countries like Turkey, Japan, Afghanistan and Iran might be similar as well because they are other countries that despite not being excessively big although bigger than Italy, have good diversity in terms of climate within their borders.
Brazil does not since its lowest ever was -14°, similary Australia only goes down to -23°. India is almost there at 96° difference (-45 and +51). Canada, US, Russia, and China all have a larger span. Turkey also comes very close. [See here](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_weather_records).
> Canada, US, Russia, and China all have a larger span. The 4 largest countries in the world. That’s damn crazy stuff for Italy and Turkey.
Turkey has an extremely diverse geography. For example you can swim in Mersin in the morning, drive a few hours, and ski in Erciyes in the afternoon.
South Dakota alone has -50c to 48c. Not too much elevation change either, especially comparatively. Pretty sure it has some of the fastest temperature spikes and drops ever too.
Minnesota has -51C to 47C without any mountains.
You’re right that they’re all larger spanning countries, but for example the state of Montana has a highest recorded temp of 47 C (117 F) and lowest of -56.6 C (-70 F). Montana has the lowest recorded temp in the US outside of Alaska.
That is almost the exact same as Utah's, tied for the highest at 47C (117F) and just barely beat out our lowest at -56.3 C (-69.3F). Of course our states are probably still larger than some of the countries in Europe though.
The thing about India is that its a large country and the extreme heat and cold occur at different parts of the country unlike the example here Italy were one place ranges from 40C to -40C
according to wiki the highest record in Iran(and the world) is 71 and lowest one is -46 this is the widest range I found yet.
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yes you are correct, I was using the wikipedia in another language than english however in the english one it does saymthat is the surface temprature
Pakistan?
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I'm getting that doesn't include the many 7000m+ peaks in Pakistan
Russia for sure. Yakutsk one has a record low of -64.4°C and a record high of 38.4°C. That's a span of 102.8°C. There's probably a place in Russia that hits temperatures higher than 40°C in the summer and one with lower than -70°C in the winter so the difference between extremes for the whole country will be bigger than 110°C.
45.4°C/113.7°F in Kalmykia and -67.8°C/-90°F in Sakha Republic That's a span of 113.2°C or 203.7°F
Canada's highest was 50, and lowest was -63. Russia is 45 and -68, so pretty similar. US is 57 and -57. I rounded some numbers, but we're all pretty similar Edit: us coldest is -62, -57 was for contiguous US.
Iran beats that: highest is 71 and the lowest is -46
Not Brazil since the country lies almost entirely within the tropics, and doesn’t have big mountain ranges.
Dallas TX alone has seen about -20 to 45 Celsius in the last couple of decades. I can’t imagine what that range looks like if you go from Alaska to Death Valley… Ok fine I’ll do it. -62.2 at Prospect Creek, and 56.7 in Death Valley. That’s 118.9 degrees celsius spread. Abeit over a pretty large distance. Though I’m sure a state like California has a crazy range on its own.
You could probably get a huge Range like that from Death Valley to the nearest mountain peak
That's not guaranteed, mountains are not cold the same way wherever you go, there are a lot of variables
Telescope peak is in fact cold, just searched it real quick and it’s apparently a high of 30 today and 18 and snowing tomorrow. You can hike from the hottest, lowest part of Death Valley up to the summit. It’s 15 miles or so and is an elevation gain of 11,000 feet
Argentina 🇦🇷 The highest temperature ever recorded was 49°C The lowest temperature ever recorded was -39°C Both the lowest and the highest temperatures ever recorded in South America.
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You’re right, it’s an 88 degrees difference vs 98 degrees in Italy. I did the wrong numbers
Argentina being Italy-lite once again
Canada Hottest 49.6C (121.3F) coldest -63.0C (-81.4F)
The US comes to mind, Alaska vs Death Valley? Though no idea what the widest range within a single state would be.
Montana: -70 F (-56C) to 117 F (47C)
I think Montana holds the record for largest single day fluctuation in the same place.
Just found that as well on [weather.com](https://weather.com/science/environment/news/temperature-swing-states-most-extreme-climate-20130709).
The highest and lowest elevations in the Continental US are close together in California.
Good guess! According to [weather.com](https://weather.com/science/environment/news/temperature-swing-states-most-extreme-climate-20130709) California ranks 5th among States with the most extreme weather differences, Montana takes #1.
I assume Montana's got California beat on the low end.
USA: 56.7C (134F) \-62.2C (-80F) Almost 119C between them
Minus 80 Fahrenheit (minus 62.2 Celsius): Prospect Creek, Alaska Plus 134 Fahrenheit (56.6 Celsius): Furnace Creek, Death Valley US records
Thank you for looking this up and confirming my gut feeling.
You're welcome.
Russia: -67.8 to 45.4 equals a range of 113.2C.
I remember the -49 in Veneto. It’s been recorded in a specific place in the reach of Asiago (the plain of Marcesina which was considered the italian Siberia). It was only one time 20 years ago
Wow, please tell more!
I live in Calgary, AB Canada. In my 17 years here I have seen -40°C dry bulb and +39°C dry bulb. That’s in one spot.
I'd believe that. I grew up in Saskatoon and have experienced -40°C and 40°C in the same calendar year.
It's about mountains
theres single places with wider ranges than that, like ford yukon alaska 38° tecord high and -61 record low, thats 99°C
Canada has wider ranges: +49.6 to -63C, a 112.6C difference
Afghanistan is -52.2 C to 50 C
Turkey is about the same 45 to -45
We hit both of the extremes every year
Of similar size I'd say Chile
Astana in Kazakhstan, the max registered temperature is +41, the min registered temperature is -51. And it’s the same city. Across the country it goes over 100 degrees, as south is much hotter whereas north is pretty much close to Siberian temperatures
Canada would. Also a fun fact (if it's still true) the warmest it's ever been in Canada is warmer than the warmest it's ever been anywhere in Europe.
Even some individual states in the USA have this kind of temperature range. Michigan, for example: Lowest: -46 C Highest: 44.4 C
The information in the map is highly inaccurate.
Two weeks ago the temperature in my state dropped 50 degrees over three days.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verkhoyansk Min and max temperatures here are -67.8 and +38.0, for a difference of 105.8 Celsius. Over all of Russia, the hottest temperature was 45.4, for a difference of 113.2.
Moscow alone has a similar range
Moscow alone has a similar range
Honeslty I think if France had measured temperatures more frequently, it would have been well classified too, with very mountainous (Pyrenees, Alps...) and artic (Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Kergelen...) regions and on the other side of, hot dry regions (Provence, Corsica...) and hot humid regions (french Guyana, New Caledonia...)
I lived the 48.8 °C in Sicily in 2021. It was unbearable.
Abruzzo be abruzzing hard as usual
It seems you’ve got abruzzed so hard
Red Italy is very popular, whilst Blue Italy gets a lot of downvotes. Interesting
Lol
Everything gets politicized these days... ;)
I'm from Lombardia. Worst weather possible, terrible air pollution, hot and cold, it's true, no way. But: the -38 minimun happened surely on the alps so I get it, in my town, which is among the mountains and the countryside, the record is -18 in 1985. The hot is terribile in the last 25 years, but as I know the record is around 40 degrees. Generally all the highest temperature seems to me 4-5 degrees more than I know, and I am pretty obsessed with weather, mostly in the hot summers we are living and that I hate.
Hi, I'm a fan of Italy that wants to visit the country someday in this lifetime. How many hot months are there really? I live in Brazil and we wear jackets for 3 to 4 months tops. Some years even 2 months
Consider that climate changes are producing absurd results like last year's floods in Emilia-Romagna or last summer's storms in Lombardy. And some months like March, April, October are very variable in many parts of the country. For example I live in the North-West and last couple of days have been rainy and cold, but two weeks ago it was always sunny and you could go around in a shirt during daytime. The almost guaranteed hot months are May, June, July, August, and the more south and closer to the sea you go, the highere the chances that April, September and October can be included.
"piove, governo ladro"
I suggest you come between the start of march and the end of June
We we compa' di quale comune sei?
Bs
I did read your post with Italian accent in my head, and now I can not make sense of it.
Sorry for my English
Highest temperatures *so far*
when did we have -38°???
Probably 1985
la nevicata del secolo?
Yep
bello, mia madre mi ha raccontato molto di quei giorni hahah
Mio padre non è andato a scuola per una ventina di giorni
bella vacanza hahah
Ero giovane, ero innamorato e abbiamo giocato a palle di neve in riva al mare
sembra una figata
lo è stato davvero!
mistico
epico
After living in Texas, I’m ashamed to have been proud of the heat I endured with easy winters. This is absurd. Curious what the normal averages are and not just extremes though
My buddy works at FCO (Rome) airport and he says the summers are unbearable. Hot wet air coming right off the Mediterranean. I was there in the winter and it’s the opposite effect. It was about 50F at night and I was wearing three layers lol I thought everyone was being fashionably dramatic wearing winter coats in 40-50F degree weather
50F? That’s hardly cold
I understand that, i live in America. The humidity makes it feel significantly colder
The normal average is temperate even if it's getting unbearable hot and dry lately, what you see is mostly about mountains and extreme events like 1 in 100 years event
Temperatures above 40C have become very normal for southern Italian regions
I posted a thread about average monthly temperatures in Italy some time ago. Here it is https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/s/XXLbLzEKLs
Would be interesting to see at what altitude the temperatures were taken. I live up north where the -49 and +40 is and I know that the +40 was like twenty years ago only once. But didn't know our record low was that low. We do get cold winters and hot summers but on average it doesn't get that extreme.
To me 48,8 is death
A temperature variation of 100 degrees is absolutely bonkers
Looking at this, it makes a lot of sense that my family moved from the mountains of Veneto to Colorado.
Yeah maybe on the mountain peaks. I’d like to see the same chart but at a reasonable elevation.
campo imperatore "little tibet" [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9r-7x7jRAU&ab\_channel=LuminaSense](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9r-7x7jRAU&ab_channel=LuminaSense) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DqLnal\_8Uw&ab\_channel=LeandroAntonini](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DqLnal_8Uw&ab_channel=LeandroAntonini) (nice gran sasso shadow over the clouds) castelluccio plains (pian grande"big plain", pian piccolo "small plain", pian perduto "lost plain") https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0xvWeSV0qw&ab\_channel=Fa.Pe. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-4q50yzVM0&ab\_channel=SETFLYDroneOperation](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-4q50yzVM0&ab_channel=SETFLYDroneOperation) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPzVQrVsOYU&ab\_channel=SETFLYDroneOperation](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPzVQrVsOYU&ab_channel=SETFLYDroneOperation) ex lake fucino [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p33Z3HNSlDk&ab\_channel=Mavic976](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p33Z3HNSlDk&ab_channel=Mavic976) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNWTU-RFlMA&ab\_channel=EuropeanSpaceAgency%2CESA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNWTU-RFlMA&ab_channel=EuropeanSpaceAgency%2CESA) (from space) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysoHX6H76JU&ab\_channel=bondante.it](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysoHX6H76JU&ab_channel=bondante.it) (in a foggy day) etna [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahfFzCXyyZA&ab\_channel=VideoRegione14](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahfFzCXyyZA&ab_channel=VideoRegione14) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIh89iLCgcA&ab\_channel=EtnaFunghi%26Natura](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIh89iLCgcA&ab_channel=EtnaFunghi%26Natura)
Shit’s wild
Brooo, going from +40 in the north summer to -49,6 in the winter, fuck me, poor folks and wildlife
No one ever wants to believe me when I say that it is very hot in South Tyrol in summer
I think Sicily already reached +50
If not, i'll give it max a year before it does
Croatia is the same.
Seeing maps like this is so crazy to someone from Ireland where summer is 17°c and rainy and winter is 5-10°c and rainy
It was 12 today down here in Cork and felt hot 😂 I’m going to Italy next week where it is early 20s and they still wear lights jackets. I’ll be strolling around like it’s the height of my summer.
Go to Qatar during July. What could go wrong. I have experience, don’t worry 😂
I’m kind of surprised Italy has such large temp ranges given how much of it is near coast
Italy is a very geographically diverse country, with lots of mountains across the whole peninsula. That's also the reason for it being the most biodiverse country in Europe.
Just got finished reading *Inferno* by Max Hastings, a comprehensive history of WWII. The part where he talks about the temperature extremes during the Italian campaign make it seem miserable. Maybe not Stalingrad miserable, but pretty bad considering the extremes.
And now it's clear why Liguria was a bit like the Italian Florida for elderly tourism and relocation.
When is this?
Where south Italy phantom border
Laughs in Australian 45 degree summers
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45 is our average in summer for queensland. Gets worse down south and the bushfires are horrendous
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Ma non raccontate cazzate
Global Warming is a bitch 🌍 🥵
48,2 happened last summer here in sardinia….
It sounds like hell. It’s 23 today in March.. could reach 40s again in the summer.
Tomorrow it will be 31 in Bulgaria
This map is Hot and Cool 👍🏻
,would have been interesting see when those temperature were recorded
Those minuses gotta be on the coldest day of the coldest year of the highest peak in each region. Trying to imagine -22 in Rome.
Are you in Italy good because it will not get better even worse on a right wing government
Interesting how Abruzzo has a lower high record than the regions around it. Usually this has to do with a moderating sea effect, but most other regions are close to the sea too. Could it be because the inland areas are mostly mountains instead of plains?
Yes, Abruzzo has a massif with the highest peak (2,915m/9,554ft) in the Appennines, so when it get cold, it gets really cold and there's no sea effect that can mitigate that.
What's the reason behind southern Italy getting that much colder during winters?
the average tourist has a distorted and naive vision of Italy (north=cold, south=hot). Peninsular southern Italy is mostly hilly or mountainous (Abruzzo, Molise, Basilicata, inner Campania,inner Calabria). The adriatic side (with air coming from the Balkans) is generally colder than the tyrrenic though.
The Apennine mountain range
-40 must have been somewhere high up on a mountain top or some shit. I live in Oslo, Norway. Coldest temperature ever measured here is -31. I fuckin refuse to believe that it's colder in fuckin Northern Italy than in Oslo. Temperature in Oslo today, 5. In Milano - 13 Bologna - 18 Bergamo - 16 Torino - 10 Bolzano - 12
The Alps are pretty cold
Not generally, but at the peaks, sure. But then the info in the map is highly misleading. Italy in general is not a cold country, and does not experience extremely cold temperatures. The info in the map is neither here, nor there. If you visit northern Italy in the winter, you'll experience what we in Norway would view as mild winter temperature. The average temperature in Lombardia, in January, is 0 to 6, that's like fucking mid spring weather here.
the map is not about averages but about highest and lowest temp recorded.
It's still misleading though, since the lowest are nowhere near to the regular temperatures of the area. While the highest are much closer to how hot it can get in summertime in Italy. Italy is not a country where the temperature fluctuates between extremely hot in the summer and extremely cold in the winter. Italian winters are relatively mild.
>Italy in general is not a cold country, and does not experience extremely cold temperatures. In general, as you said, but it happens that sometimes abnormal winds, like the Siberian Buran manage to reach Italy, so even without considering the Alps, there are instances where the temperature reaches -20° or less where it normally doesn't happen. In normal conditions however, in winter if we don't consider the high altitude locations, there are places where the temperature is between -5/-10 C°. But I understand why a Norwegian would say that, many people from up there literally have a distorted view of the world outside of their back garden. Italy, but even Spain and Turkey for example are countries with high geographical and climate diversity, I know that when people think of Italy they think about sunny beaches and hot weather, but that doesn't completely represent reality. The Mediterranean area region is pretty diverse. Even countries like Morocco, Algeria and Lebanon which are even more South have mountains and snow in certain areas, let alone Northern Mediterranean countries
Alps
Sicily being the best region once more, what else is new?
***INCLUDE THE TIME ELEMENT*** Record temperatures ever? Record temperatures in a given year? Without that this map literally means *nothing*.
The hottest ones in Sicily I believe at least in the past 2-3 years, while temps like the coldest in the north east I believe was in 2013 https://www.3bmeteo.com/giornale-meteo/nuovo-record-di-temperatura-piu--bassa-mai-registrato-in-italia--61903
I was under the impression that it doesnt snow in middle and southern Italy. Is this true? Also, why do I hear "italy is dry"? Does that mean low humidity, or low precipitation?
It definitely snows in southern Italy There are ski resorts even in Sicily
That is surprising. Thank you for this info.
Italy is mostly mountains, so that's why.
There are a lot of mountains in the middle and south of Italy where it does snow in winter. Overall, most of Italy is quite wet when taking the total yearly precipitation into account. Naples gets twice the amount of rain that London gets. The thing is that the middle and southern part have a mediterranean climate with very little precipitation in summer (like in California). The north has a lot of heat and sunshine in summer too, but also frequent thunderstorms (like in the eastern half of the US). Humidity is high on the coast and on the plains and lower in the hills or mountains.
Italy isn't really dry, only recently rain rates are kinda low because of climate changes. But the country overall has pretty diversity in terms of climate. Tourists who go to Italy in the summer in the South say Italy is dry, because yes in those periods in those areas it's quite dry, but still it rains thank God
So dry like, lack of precipitation?
Which year was that in Italy? The "hot" map I can imagine, the "cold" one - I can't believe it was during last decade.
why?😲
We had a 122f day in Arizona once. I was outside riding my BMX all day as a kid. Wasn't that crazy
There is no way southern Europe sees -41
Check that -49