An anticyclone – a high-pressure area – named Cerberus (named after the monster from Dante’s Inferno) coming from the south will cause temperatures to rise above 40°C across much of Italy. This comes after a spring and early summer full of storms and floods.

The highest temperature in European history was broken on 11 August 2021, when a temperature of 48.8°C was recorded in Floridia, an Italian town in the Sicilian province of Syracuse. That record may be broken again in the coming days.

  • Dojan
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    151 year ago

    named after the monster from Dante’s Inferno

    Hmm.

      • Dojan
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        21 year ago

        I’m actually replaying Mass Effect right now so that feels oddly on point.

      • @delial
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        11 year ago

        Nah, it’s named after the authentication protocol Kerberos. They’re just techies promoting network security.

    • @mykl@lemmy.world
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      31 year ago

      named after that aardvark in that comic book (but they spelt it wrong).

      Fixed it for them.