THE REFLECTION
«We are convinced that the climate is the great theme of this century and this is why we are proud to provide a tool capable of investigating and recording its complexities – declares Emanuele Colli, managing director of iLMeteo.it – With this edition, which further increases the reference database, we offer a still complete product that allows us to observe with scientific precision the effects of a change that is increasingly before our eyes”. In detail, the report assigns an average liveability score based on parameters such as days of frost (minimum temperature below 0), heat (days above 35 degrees) and extreme events (precipitation above 40 ml and wind gusts above 40 k/h), summer breeze, humidity, fogtemperature range, cold days, heat index, heat wavestropical nights, sunshine, Droughtcloudiness, rainsheavy rain and gusts of wind. And the 2023 edition of the ranking certainly does not smile on the Brand, as well as on the rest of the regional territory given that the provincial capitals of Veneto have all worsened in terms of the general ranking. Only Verona was saved from the corner and is now the first city in the region, overtaking the former record holder Venice, which has now fallen to fourth place and 35th in Italy when in 2022 it was 13th. Looking instead at the whole of Italy, it emerges that the city where people live best is Imperia followed by Biella, Agrigento, Cuneo and Macerata. The worst, however, are Prato (third to last), Florence and Terni.
THE TREVIGIAN DATA
The capital of Brand it is attested as 4th city in Italy as regards the values of fog on the territory (preceded in the ranking only by Pavia, Mantua and Venice) which were calculated on the number of days in which, for at least 3 consecutive hours, relative humidity was above 95% without precipitation and with a temperature lower than 12 degrees. Treviso it turns out then at the top national for daytime cloud cover (7th position), heavy rains (26°, but a clear recovery compared to 80° in 2022), days of frost and rain (37°). Regarding the summer breeze, the city records a 48th place, as well as a 62nd for the temperature range. And again, a 70° for the heat index, a 71° for tropical nights and a 72° for heat waves (it was 51° in 2022). Lastly, it’s 84° for comfort humidity (it was 62° in 2022) and cold days (it was 52° in 2021), 86° for African heat (it was 42° in 2022), 89° for gusty winds, 90° for extreme events (it was 24° in 2021), 97° for drought and 105° for sunshine.
Going into the detail of the research it clearly emerges how the year 2023 was characterized above all by great summer heat which often left no respite even during the night. Furthermore, compared to the drought of 2022, it also stood out for a recovery in rainfall, while the great absence was, as is now usual, the cold winter. In short, a general increase in heat, but also more extreme weather events which demonstrate how Italy, and the Mediterranean in general, are today a “climate hotspot” where the global warming it runs at double the speed of the rest of the world. If, however, we look at Veneto alone, the data held by Arpa Veneto demonstrate that for the period 1993-2022 there is an increase in the average annual temperature, an almost homogeneous figure throughout the region, of +0.57 degrees per decade.
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