A train has strayed due to the deformation of a track caused by the intense heat of these days.
It happened inside the port area of
La Spezia.
The locomotive was pulling a freight convoy near the station of La Spezia Marittima.
The accident caused the interruption of traffic.
There were no injuries.
The diversion took place near a switch, according to the Port System Authority of the Eastern Ligurian Sea, where the tolerances provided for the expansion of the metal are more limited.
Problems due to high temperatures were also found on the tracks
of the Milan metro.
Atm announces that "as a precaution" the trains of Line 2
of the Milan underground "are traveling at reduced speed on the open-air sections, where the electricity grid and rails are exposed to critical temperatures".
"Consider longer travel times - writes Atm on social networks -. Our attention is maximum: we are committed to guaranteeing the service in safety by constantly monitoring the temperatures in different points of the network".
The temperature of the rails of Line 2 of the Milanese Metro, in its uncovered section, has reached above 57-60 degrees,
and, as required by the railway protocols, ATM, according to what was known for the first time, slowed down the trains as a "precaution".
The stretch concerned winds through some stations both to the east, towards Cologno and Gessate and to the west towards Assago. The slowdowns have not caused severe inconvenience at the moment, but it is not excluded that they are reflected intermittently on all the other networks.
"Given the extreme temperatures reached this year, the data lead us to believe that in 2022 we will have an excess of mortality due to the heat
, as already occurred during the summer of 2003. Especially since today, compared to 20 years ago, by way of of the increase in life expectancy, we have a greater presence of the elderly and the frail, who are the people on whose health excessive heat can have a stronger impact ".
Chiara Cadeddu
, professor of Hygiene and preventive medicine at the Catholic University and coordinator of the dossier "Climate change in Italy", presented today by the Italian Institute for Planetary Health,
explains this to ANSA .
THE CITIES
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Bolzano records the hottest day of the year with 39 degrees
.
It is the highest value recorded in 2022 in South Tyrol.
The July record was 39.5 degrees, on 19 July 2007 in Merano, as the provincial meteorologist Dieter Peterlin recalls.
Tomorrow, with the arrival of some thunderstorms, temperatures should be in a slight and temporary drop.
Red code for the heat in Florence also scheduled for Saturday 23 and Sunday 24 July.
The maximum perceived temperature will be 38 degrees on both days.
The Municipality also announced that due to the heat the maximum concentration threshold of ozone in the atmosphere has been exceeded, which yesterday reached a value of 187 micrograms per cubic meter of air, above the legal threshold set at 180. . "Citizens are invited - says Palazzo Vecchio - to avoid recreational activities with intense physical exercise outdoors in the hottest hours of the day and, when working outdoors, to concentrate strenuous activities in the afternoon and to take breaks in areas o structures in the shade. The most sensitive subjects (children, the elderly, asthmatics, people with respiratory diseases) are also advised to avoid prolonged stay in the open air ".
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Almost 41 degrees in Foligno, increasingly hot summer - Umbria
With almost 41 degrees in Foligno (40.7) and 40 in Orvieto, the Umbrian summer is getting hotter and hotter.
The detection stations of the functional center of the regional civil protection recorded temperatures all above 32 degrees.
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THE IMPACT ON HEALTH - "In 2020 Italy marked one of the largest temperature increases in all of Europe, with +1.54 ° C compared to the average of the period 1961-1990"
and is considered a climatic hot-spot or " an area that continues to heat up faster than the global average. "
This has "an alarming impact on public health".
This is one of the data contained in the dossier "Climate change in Italy. The Italian scenario in the light of the document Climate Change Is A Healt Crisis", created by the Italian Institute for Planetary Health (IIPH) together with the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart of Rome .
Presented today at an online event, the
study comes at a time of emergency amid extreme heatwaves,
fires and water crisis.
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In these very hot days, particular attention must be paid to the most fragile, in particular those who have heart, lung, kidney, elderly and hypertensive problems.
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The impact of these red flags are too often underestimated.
Climate change impacts health in various ways: injuries and deaths from floods, fires and heat waves;
increase in mosquito-borne diseases;
increase in cardiovascular and respiratory problems.
In the city of Rome, the researcher Chiara Cadeddu specified, illustrating the dossier, "the daily mortality of over 50s due to summer heat waves is 22% higher than in normal summer periods".
But climate change is also linked to an increased risk of
mental illness.
"A study conducted in the Bologna hinterland found that for every 1 degree above 24, mortality among people without mental disorders increased by 1.9%, while among users of mental health services, mortality increased. 5.5% ".
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Heat waves on the rise, "the cause is in man-made greenhouse gases" - Chronicle
Chinese Academy of Science: Such phenomena will increase by 30% in the coming years. "July 19, 2022 went down in history as the hottest day ever recorded in the United Kingdom. (ANSA)