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October 2020) (Learn how and when to remove this message) The following table lists the highest and lowest temperatures recorded in each region in Italy , in both Celsius and Fahrenheit. Region
The Po, Italy's longest river (652 kilometres or 405 miles), flows from the Alps on the western border with France and crosses the Po Valley on its way to the Adriatic Sea. The Po Valley is the largest plain in Italy, with 46,000 km 2 (18,000 sq mi), and it represents over 70% of the total plain area in the country. [17]
Italy's "Servizio Meteorologico" named the storm Apollo (which was then adopted by the Free University of Berlin), [7] while Greece named the storm Nearchus. [2] On 29 October 2021, a ship in the Mediterranean Sea passed through Apollo and measured a peak wind speed of 104 km/h (65 mph) and a pressure of 999.4 mb (29.51 inHg), indicating that ...
The second major Mediterranean tropical-like cyclone of 1996, while west of Italy on 7 October. The second of the three recorded Mediterranean tropical cyclones in 1996 formed between Sicily and Tunisia on 4 October, making landfall on both Sicily and southern Italy. The medicane generated major flooding in Sicily.
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 ...
Gibilmanna is at an altitude of 880 m and therefore the winters are cold for Sicily. [3] The coldest temperature since 2010 has been -4.1 °C (24.6 °F) recorded on 18 January 2016. Despite the altitude, at most times of the year there is very little wind, the wind averages calm 46% of the time.
Marsala has a hot-summer mediterranean climate (Köppen: Csa), similar to most coastal towns in Sicily, with hot and dry summers coupled with moderately wet and mild winters. Weather in Marsala is similar to that of nearby Trapani. Summers are generally warm with a record maximum temperature of 37 °C (99 °F) in August 2017. [6]
The 2009 Messina floods and mudslides occurred in Sicily on the night of 1–2 October, mainly along the Ionian coast in the Province of Messina. They also affected other parts of northeastern Sicily and killed a total of at least 31 people, [1] some of whom were swept out to sea. More than 400 people were left homeless, as many houses collapsed.