The heat is becoming increasingly unbearable as the days go by, mainly due to the constant rise in humidity, which particularly affects our coastal cities.
In recent days, cities like Bari, Brindisi, Reggio Calabria, Palermo, and Naples have experienced significantly heavy moments, especially in the late afternoon and early evening hours.
Despite the temperatures not being particularly high, we unfortunately find humidity levels exceeding 90% in coastal areas.
Such high humidity in summer makes the atmosphere particularly oppressive, and the weather conditions become extreme.
Dew in Summer, something doesn’t add up!
The humidity is so high that, for several evenings, we have been witnessing the phenomenon of condensation, or dew on cars, especially by the sea.
The phenomenon of dew in summer, with temperatures above 27-28 °C, is absolutely remarkable and exceptional, considering that it is a phenomenon typically seen in autumn or winter, manifesting with rather low temperatures. To get dew with such high temperatures, it is clear that we are facing humidity percentages close to 100%.
But when will the heat end?
But when will all this end? It is clear that, day by day, the hope and anticipation for the return of cooler weather or at least temperatures more in line with what should be the true Mediterranean summer are growing.
This stubborn subtropical anticyclone, now the undisputed protagonist of the summer of 2024, will persist for at least another 7 days, when we will find ourselves in the very first days of September and the meteorological autumn. The long-awaited change of course, which would certainly be welcome after so much unbearable heat, could arrive in the Mediterranean at the end of the first decade of September.
At the moment, the main calculation centers propose the retreat of the North African ridge between September 7 and 10, favoring not only a sharp drop in temperatures but also the arrival of the first real Atlantic disturbances capable of bringing rain a bit more widespread and democratic across our peninsula. However, for the moment, these are still long-term trends that will need to be confirmed or denied in the next weather editorials, which will certainly not be lacking here on our portal.
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