States of anxiety and closure: thus temperatures interact with mental health. The heat anxiety affects everyone, even young people. The meteorologist: from Sunday thermometer falling even 10 degrees
Two tourists died from illness on the beach in Sardiniaa Budoni and San Teodoro where the temperatures have passed I 40 GRADI. They were 75 and 57 years old. A truck driver was also found dead at dawn in his truck on the A4 between Sirmione and Peschiera del Garda in the province of Brescia. Friday 5th July there will be the red stamp in 20 cities. And the government launches a protocol for work, while a case is born on incentives to raider which also circulate with the hot sun. The Piedmont Also broaden the order that prohibits work in the hours at risk. Meanwhile, the storms arrive: Alert for thunderstorms in Lombardy and Tuscany. Wind storm a Firenze. Postponed by rain the Palio di Siena. But what are the effects of the extreme heat? What can be done to fight it? And when will it end?
The effects of the extreme heat
Il Corriere della Sera asks for it to Giuseppe Pantaleoprofessor of social psychology atVita-Salute San Raffaele University and director of theUniSR-Social.Lab. With the warm record, explains the professor, “states of anxiety can be developed, which I am not properly afraid but uncertainty. The result is a generalized mental closure attitude, which involves less elasticity and flexibility. It is a correct reaction in front of a threat. Unfortunately The extreme heat protracted for several days is not a problem that we can solvetherefore anxiety does not find a solution. The heat and anxiety that can derive from it accentuate a feeling of loss of control, in which everything seems to escape from hand: the people around us, the environment, ourselves “.
The heat anxiety affects everyone
They are reactions, Pantaleo specifies, which can be developed in all people, “even those that are normally serene and not inclined to the clash tend to become more aggressive, intolerant, quarrelsome. It is produced a psychological state that tends to request immediate answersour mind goes in search of still points. Everything stems from the uncertainty I was talking about earlier: we can’t have a long look, we live an inability (temporary) to look to the future with optimism. Our horizons seem to narrow more and more ».
The advice of the doctors
To react, says Pantaleo, «Follow the advice of the doctors It is very important, both for physical and mental health. It helps us to find certainties in a situation where the risk is to enter a vicious circle: the more anxiety increases, the more the body temperature rises, because emotional states are triggered that cause that The body activates emotional-motivational levelmobilizing more energy and, therefore, producing more heat. A useful condition when we have to overcome an obstacle, but in this case unnecessarily harmful. As for the elderly or sunshine, it is very important to fight social isolation, even simply through the relationships of good neighborhood».
Young people
Heat anxiety also affects i young: «In the new generations, what has been called eco-anxiety is very strong: the fear that climate change will only worsen, in the absence of drastic interventions is widespread. In conclusion, in all the situations we have described, it is important to try to return to a state of mental serenity, to prove with confidence in the future ». On the other hand, the storms in the North arrive on Sunday. “The African anticyclone is giving up,” he says to Republic Guido Guidilieutenant colonel and meteorologist of theAir Force.
The weather expert explains: «On Wednesday we recorded The highest temperature in Alife, in the province of Caserta: 39.2 degrees. We also touched 40 degrees in Tuscany before the storm. Many places have oscillated between 36 and 38 degrees in Umbria, Lazio, Campania, Puglia, Basilicata, Calabria. The subtropical anticyclone is however losing strength. The air becomes unstable. On the Atlantic there is a disturbance that is still in high latitudes, but is approaching western Europe “.
Rain
The rain will arrive «Sunday in the North, more towards the north-east. Bad weather will be concentrated at the foot of the mountains in Lombardy, Ligurian Levant and Triveneto. Monday The disturbance will descend to central Italy. In the south we will have fresher windsbut we don’t expect rains ». Meteorological events will be extreme “because the contrast between the current hot air and the fresh arrival will be strong. In these days he is doing very hot. The zero thermal has risen almost 5 thousand meters above sea level, which is really a lot. We haven’t summed up yet, but we expect for June a 3-4 degree anomaly more than the average. Even thunderstorms with non -extreme values, between 30 and 50 millimeters of raincould be very localized and therefore violent. Already normally in July, when it rains, he never makes a drizzle. With all this excess of heat it will be important that everyone pays attention to weather bulletins ».
Ten degrees less
And the refreshment will arrive: “In the north there will also be ten degrees less. The bad weather already arrived in Paris brought 37 to 25 degrees. After the disturbances on Monday and Tuesday we will enter a more balanced summer phase. Until the end of the second decade of July we should have air from the Atlantic, which will keep the African anticyclone away ». The heat will later return: «We cannot see further with the forecasts. The monthly scenarios indicate a slightly rainy July than the average. Since in July it never rains, we expect some precipitation. In recent decades, the frequency of African anticyclones has increased, but it is early to anticipate what will happen from late July onwards ».
