The decade that ended last week
was the hottest on record in Italy, an expert said on Tuesday.
With the second hottest December since 1800, 2019 ended with
a temperature 0.96 degrees higher than average and so becoming
the fourth hottest year after 2014, 2015 and 2018, said Michele
Brunetti, head of the data bank at the Italian Research
Council's Institute of Climate and Atmospheric Science.
Extreme weather events have increased in Italy amid the
climate crisis.
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