It was 11 August 2021 when thermometers at the Floridia monitoring station operated by the Sicilian Agrometeorological Information Service (SIAS) recorded a temperature of 48.8°C, a value that would be officially certified several years later by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) as the highest temperature ever recorded in Europe. The record attracted the attention of the European mainstream press, but it may not last … Continue reading Seventy-Five Years of Climate Anomalies, Water Crises and Drought: The Data from 1951 to 2025





