Italy's National Research Council
(CNR) said Sunday that all of Italy's Alpine glaciers were
current above zero degrees amid an ongoing string of heatwaves
and as a result of the climate crisis.
"All the Alpine glaciers, at all altitudes, are above zero and
the situation is quite critical", said Claudio Tei, researcher
and meteorologist at the CNR and the Lamma Consortium, on the
heat wave that is sweeping Central and Northern Italy, due to a
sub-tropical anticyclone coming from Africa.
"The hottest days predicted by the models are Monday 21 and
Tuesday 22 August, with peaks of 38 degrees in some cities and
more than 7 degrees above this season's average, even 10 degrees
above seasonal values in the western Alps," Tei explains, "while
the zero temperature at altitude is expected to rise up to 5,000
metres.
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