Aprea, unbearable heat and no respite in sight. The announced increase in temperatures has arrived and 21 cities marked by Red sticker of the alert Sunday with the thermometer he can touch tips of 40 degrees in various locations. The first negative effects have already been recorded: increases of intervention at the 118 service that recorded a +4% in the last seven days. Meanwhile, the unions, from the north to the south of the country, ask to put in place Anti-Caldo ordinances to stop work activities in the hours and areas most at risk.
Until now, the hottest weekend of the year has come due to the effect of the African anti -anti -antique. The hottest city during the weekend will be Taranto with 40 degrees, but you will not be much better to Agrigento, Florence, Oristano, Pistoia, Prato, Syracuse and Terni with 39 degrees. An average of 38 degrees is instead expected to Foggia, Frosinone, Grosseto, Matera, Ragusa and Rome.
In the rest of the country the temperatures reach 34-36 degrees accompanied by high humidity. And the heat is destined to persist. From 4-5 July, instead, an anticyclone is possible. The situation is also monitored by the Ministry of Health with daily bulletins on heat waves. For Sunday there is the red alert sticker 3 in 17 cities (Ancona, Bologna, Bolzano, Brescia, Florence, Frosinone, Latina, Milan, Naples, Palermo, Perugia, Pescara, Rome, Turin, Trieste, Venice and Verona), while on Sunday the cities in red for the heat waves rise to 21 out of a total of 27 cities monitored (will also be added to the List in Rosso, Civitavecchia, Viterbo).
Some regions, such as Liguria and Sicily, have already issued ordinances that prohibit the outdoor works in the most at risk time slots (12.30-16), on the days when the risk maps published by the Worklimate portal report ‘high’ levels of exposure to heat. A similar ordinance was also requested by the confederal unions of Lombardy. However, the Ligurian unions ask for certainty on the layoffs: “We remember that in the event that you arrive at 35 degrees, the immediate stop of the works is needed, with the possibility of companies to be able to request the layoffs thus allowing workers to suspend the activity to guarantee their safety. On this aspect, however, guarantees are necessary by the Ministry of Labor”. To date, they warn, “there are still no certainties about the Availability of the necessary resourcesEe we ask all the competent authorities to take action in this sense “.
