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The Italian island of Sicily, immersed in a heat wave in recent days, broke the temperature record in Europe on Wednesday.

The town of Floridia, in the province of Syracuse, reached 48.8 ° C at 1:15 pm on August 11 at a measuring station that has been operational since 2002. Until now, the European record was held by Athens, which in 1977 set 48 ° C .

The Italian record measured in this town of 22,000 inhabitants by the Agrometeorological Information System of the Sicily Region, must now be officially confirmed by the World Meteorological Organization. It arrives, however, in a summer that is being very warm in the Mediterranean, with very high temperatures in countries such as Greece and Italy, which are suffering serious forest fires, and from Tuesday also in Spain, which will start tomorrow Friday. in front of the most suffocating days of the first heat wave of this summer.

However, Floridia in particular and the province of Syracuse in general, whose inhabitants have had to endure 47 degrees this week, are geographically located in an area that favors extreme heat, because in nearby areas, located a few kilometers, the temperature it can be around ten degrees lower.

According to the newspaper

Corriere della Sera

, on August 20, 1999, an extreme temperature was also registered in Sicily slightly lower than that of Wednesday, 48.5 ºC, a record that was not officially recognized.

The historical record in Spain, in Córdoba

As explained to EL MUNDO Rubén del Campo, spokesman for the State Meteorological Agency (AEMET), in Spain the highest value registered in the main network of this organization was registered at the Córdoba airport

on July 13, 2017, with 46 , 9 ° C.

The meteorologist emphasizes that until the World Meteorological Organization confirms the extreme Sicilian record, for the moment the 1977 record for the Greek capital (48 ºC) remains.

Regarding the forecasts for the heat wave that we are suffering in Spain, José Antonio Maldonado, Meteored's director of meteorology has explained in a press release that in Córdoba and Seville it could exceed 44 ºC while in Granada and Jaén the forecast is that they reach 43 ºC.

In Madrid, the historical maximum temperature of 40.7 ºC that was registered on June 28, 2019 could be exceeded by a few tenths.

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