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Days in winter are not as short as in northern Europe, and the average duration of daylight in December, January and February is 10 hours [4] (for comparison: London [5] or Moscow [6] or Warsaw [7] – about 8 hours).
July 19, 2023: Sestu: −17.0 °C (1.4 °F) February 13, 2012: Gavoi: Sicily: 48.8 °C (119.8 °F) August 11, 2021: Floridia or Siracusa: −15.2 °C (4.6 °F) [8] February 9, 1956: Casa Cantoniera, Mount Etna: Trentino-South Tyrol: 40.1 °C (104.2 °F) August 11, 2003: Tramin: −50.6 °C (−59.1 °F) [9] January 7, 2022: Busa Riviera, Pale ...
Italy is located in southern Europe and it is also considered a part of western Europe, [12] between latitudes 35° and 47° N, and longitudes 6° and 19° E.To the north, Italy borders Switzerland, France, Austria and Slovenia and is roughly delimited by the Alpine watershed, enclosing the Po Valley and the Venetian Plain.
In addition to the 12 national holidays, each city or town celebrates a public holiday on the occasion of the festival of the local patron saint.For example, Rome on 29 June (Saints Peter and Paul), Milan on 7 December (Saint Ambrose), Naples on 19 September (Saint Januarius), Venice on 25 April (Saint Mark the Evangelist) and Florence on 24 June (Saint John the Baptist). [2]
December 18, 2022 – February 5, 2023 — A shear line system caused flooding and landslides across the Philippines, killing 97 people with 25 more missing. [ 54 ] January 4 — Heavy rains caused a house to collapse in Matala , Angola , with two people being killed.
February is the second month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars. The month has 28 days in common years and 29 in leap years, with the 29th day being called the leap day. February is the third and last month of meteorological winter in the Northern Hemisphere.
On 5 June 2021, a group of 24 associations and 179 citizens (17 of whom were minor), led by non-profit association A Sud ('To South'), officially filed a lawsuit against the Italian government in the civil court in Rome, with the main goals of holding national institutions "accountable for the state of danger caused by [their] inertia in ...
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. reintroduced the holiday economics policy by issuing Proclamation No. 90 on November 11, 2022 which concerns the observance of public holidays for 2023. [9] This was enacted as a means to boost the domestic tourism industry which was impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic and related lockdowns .