Floridia, Sicily, recorded Europe’s highest temperature at 119.8 degrees Fahrenheit in 2021, signaling extreme heat’s growing impact on daily life as residents stay indoors to escape the prolonged heat waves.
Palermo is the only Sicilian city classified as red, level 3 for heat risk: 36 degrees Celsius (97.8 degrees Fahrenheit) feels like it's unrelenting, even at night. This is according to regional Civil Protection warning number 181, which begins a week of orange alerts across the island. The document certifies the state of pre-alert for the risk […] The article "Record heat in Sicily, but the worst is yet to come" comes from Diretta Sicilia.