The global warming hits the Venetowhich from 2022 to 2023 saw worsen the climate liveability index in five out of seven capitals. According to the dossier created for the third consecutive year by Corriere della Sera and iLMeteo.itVenice which in 2022 was the city where people lived best is now not only in third place but has also fallen from 13th to 35th place in Italy; Belluno rises to second place but leaves the ranking at national level 24th position for 29th; Vicenza goes from third place to fifth in the region and in Italy from 40th to 66th; Treviso drops from fifth to sixth in Veneto and in the national ranking from 51st to 81st; In the end Padua from fourth it even becomes last, losing 36 steps at Italian level and falling from 48th to 84th place. The only ones two happy notes are the record in Veneto of Veronathan in the general ranking rises from 57th to 27th place, and the marked improvement of Rovigo, fourth in the region and 63rd in the countrywhich in 2022 saw her 91st.
The study and the parameters
The study reports the relevant results 108 capitals and calibrated based on 17 parametersthree more than in 2022, i.e.: days of frost (where the minimum temperature drops below zero), extreme heat (days above 35 degrees) ed extreme events (precipitation above 40 millimeters and wind gusts over 40 kilometers per hour). The other indicators are: breeze summer, humidity, fog, temperature range, cold days, heat index, heat waves, tropical nights, sunshine, drought, cloudiness, rainand, heavy rain and gusts of wind. “The Veneto has been greatly affected by the increase in temperaturesbecause the majority of the territory is located in the plains – explains Lorenzo Tedici, meteorologist and media manager for iLMeteo.it – the heat has increased, especially in the minimum values. And then compared to the 2022 drought, it recorded a increase in rainfall which generated more humidity, reinvigorating the phenomenon of fogsignificantly reduced in 2022. The climate is changing tropicalizingthe winters are less harsh, in the summer it is muggy and Veneto is the sultry region par excellence”. And in fact it was the heat that penalized Venice in the ranking, as well as the fog and high cloud cover.
Who goes up and who goes down
In reverse it’s good in Belluno, also because last winter it went below zero, although due to days of frost it was only 106^ in Italy. But it is 12th for rainfall. «Verona has improved a lot — underlines Tedici — because the heat index decreaseddecreasing from 62 to 39 days with temperatures equal to or above 30 degrees for at least one hour a day, days of extreme heat, from 10 to 4 in a year, and also days of frost, from 53 to 37. The proximity of Lake Garda has an impact, which favors a temperate climate. In reverse Padua suffered the longest heat waves in 2023due to the extreme heat it is 40th in Italy and on the other hand the days of frost have decreased from 48 to 34. But the entire Po Valley is suffering.”
The negative factors they have instead Treviso is penalized by intense rain and fogwhich sees it third in Italy, and the cloudiness. Moreover, in the pre-Alpine areas of the Triveneto in 2023 rainfall above 20 millimeters was recorded. Rovigoalthough significantly improved, remains plagued by fog (it is 17th in Italy), by extreme heat, by the heat and by tropical nights, in which the temperature does not fall below 20 degrees. The latter event for which the Polesine capital is 17th. However, the days of frost dropped from 35 to 23 and, good news, the days of dry weather fell from 107 to 83, also because the days of intense rain increased from one to eight. If finally Vicenza lost 26 positions in the ranking national is owed to frost days, 40which sees it eleventh in the country, at cloudiness (9th place) and to fog (10^).
What a summer it will be
But what summer are you waiting for us? «With temperatures two degrees higher than the seasonal average recorded from 1991 to 2020 — closes Tedici —. In the North the continuous change between will continue heat fronts and storms: every five muggy days it will be more and more likely to see a violent storm arrive, which needs heat to be such. I know, it seems like a paradox, but the hotter it is, I mean between 34 and 36 degrees, and more thermal energy remains in the air to fuel violent storms. Even hail needs heat to be bigger. This climate will last until September.”
Next week, however, will mark a respite before the restart: lower temperatures and afternoon showers are expected.
