Italy is in the grip of heat both today and tomorrow. African heat: Today, nine cities have a red flag; tomorrow, they will rise to 14 due to record heat. Record heat in Rome.

The heat and sultriness are still tightening their grip on Italy, where a scorching weekend is expected. There is a maximum alert and red flag today, Saturday, August 10, in 9 cities among the 27 monitored by the Ministry of Health bulletin. Blaze, therefore, for tomorrow, August 11, when the towns affected by the maximum heat level will rise to 14.

Today 9 red flag cities

Today, the red sticker affects Brescia, Campobasso, Frosinone, Latina, Palermo, Perugia, Rome, Florence, and Rieti. Eleven cities (Bologna, Bolzano, Civitavecchia, Genoa, Messina, Naples, Turin, Trieste, Venice, Verona, and Viterbo) have an orange sticker. The other capitals are in yellow.

Fire Sunday, maximum alert in 14 cities

Fire Sunday is tomorrow, August 11, when the alert will be maximum in Bolzano, Brescia, Campobasso, Florence, Frosinone, Genoa, Latina, Naples, Palermo, Perugia, Rieti, Rome, Verona, and Viterbo. Only three capitals (Cagliari, Catania, and Pescara) will stop at risk level 1, yellow sticker. All other cities are in orange (alert 2).

Minimum temperatures will increase even more between Sunday and Monday, with peaks of 27-29°C not excluded in Genoa, Savona, La Spezia, Massa, and Messina; the minimum will remain above 25°C from Trieste downwards, from Gorizia to Palermo, passing through Naples, Pisa, and Rimini. In short, the almost ‘super tropical’ lows will cause the hottest weekend of 2024.

Even the maximum temperatures, however, will be North African, close to 40°C from north to south, disturbed very little by the local afternoon thunderstorms expected on the Alpine and Apennine mountains: the umbrellas will be open in the hottest hours to shelter from the scorching sun, but between Basilicata and Calabria, some strong thunderstorms are also expected in the afternoon. Over the weekend, these afternoon heat storms will vanish, and we will only find the ‘absolute’ and ‘sunny’ dominance of the African Anticyclone Charon over Italy.