2022 hottest year in Italy since 1800 - CNR

(ANSA) - ROME, OCT 19 - 2022 has so far been the hottest year in Italy since records began in 1800, the National Research Council (CNR) said Wednesday.
    Average temperatures have been 0.96 °C above the average of the thirty-year period between 1990 and 2020, the CNR said.
    Bernardo Gozzini, director of the LaMMA environmental monitoring and modelling consortium, said the biggest rise was in temperature highs, which showed a gain of 1.2 °C, while the lows were the third hottest on record. (ANSA).