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Region Record high Temperature Date Place(s) Record low Temperature Date Place(s) Abruzzo: 40.8 °C (105.4 °F) July 6, 1950: Pescara: −41.0 °C (−41.8 °F)
In the south, Sicily has experienced highs of 46 °C (114.8 °F) in some hot summers. [83] On 25 June 2007 47.0 °C (116.6 °F) were recorded in Foggia, Apulia, and on 10 August 1999, 48.5 °C (119.3 °F) were recorded in Catenanuova in Sicily. [84] [85] The latter is not official, and generally considered dubious.
The snowfall of early December 1990 was particularly disruptive to large parts of the United Kingdom, although heavy snow was also reported across much of Western Europe. [2] In the United Kingdom snow began to fall over the Midlands, Wales and the Pennines on the night of 7–8 December 1990 and continued for much of the following day. The ...
The 1990 Carlentini earthquake (Italian: Terremoto di Carlentini del 1990) occurred off the Sicilian coast, 20 km east northeast from the town of Augusta, Sicily on 13 December at 01:24 local time. The moderately-sized earthquake measuring 5.6 on the moment magnitude scale (M w ) [ 1 ] resulted in the deaths of 19 people and caused at least 200 ...
Another earthquake of less intensity damaged the city on 16 November 1894. The city was almost entirely destroyed by an earthquake and associated tsunami on the morning of 28 December 1908, killing about 100,000 people and destroying most of the ancient architecture. The city was largely rebuilt in the following year.
CATANIA, ITALY - AUGUST 14: View from above of a mega yacht moored in the sea at Taormina on August 14, 2024 in Catania, Italy. Each year, thousands of tourists flock to eastern Sicily for ...
The 1851 Sicily tornadoes were two tornadoes that swept the Marsala countryside in western Sicily, Kingdom of the Two Sicilies (now Italy) on December 8, 1851.. The total number of victims is unknown, but is assessed at over 500.
Castiglione di Sicilia (Sicilian: Castigghiuni di Sicilia) is a comune (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Catania in Sicily, southern Italy.It is one of I Borghi più belli d'Italia ("The most beautiful villages of Italy").