Italy anticyclone rising again, with highs up to 8°C above average

Italy's vicious anti-cyclone is rising again and is set to usher in the Belpaese's sixth summer heatwave with temperature highs up to eight degrees Celsius above seasonal averages, a top forecaster said Wednesday. The sixth heat wave is on the way, from Friday, September 4th to Wednesday, September 9th, but temperatures will remain at "only" 37-38°C, according to Lorenzo Tedici, meteorologist and media director for iLMeteo.it, who believes that the only thing that will save us from total thermal collapse is the calendar. Since it's now September, the days are shorter: in Milan, we can count on 13 hours and 16 minutes of sunshine, while in Rome, we're stuck with 13 hours and 8 minutes. Two hours of merciless solar radiation are missing from the Summer Solstice, and it's precisely these two