Hottest day on record for Rome, Italy with 42.9°C

Also hottest day on record for Catalonia with a searing 45.3°C.

    • zzz@feddit.deEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      Hottest summer so far – coldest (approximately) for the rest of our lives…

  • traveler01@lemmy.worldEnglish
    91·
    1 year ago

    That map is for air temperature right? Since it shows way higher temperatures for Portugal than the ones actually given by the weather stations. For example it’s showing 30+ for zones that didn’t hit even close to that, worse even were cloudy today.

    Edit: Also odd that the iOS app for those locations don’t throw these maximums.

    Where did that weather data come from? (scratch this)

    Edit2: saw that it’s based on the GFS model. I’ve seen some criticisms regarding using that for other than US since that model accuracy is quite low.

    • skhayfa@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Can you share a map with your preferred model? Just curious to see how much difference that would make.

      • traveler01@lemmy.worldEnglish
        71·
        1 year ago

        Don’t have any, and curious to know why this map was based on GFS.

        You can however check the ipma (Portuguese weather institute) to know the actual temperatures and the actual predictions based on models employed here.

        Also important to know Italy and Greece are suffering from abnormal temperatures while Portugal is not due to the Azores anti cyclone.

        Still, according to the my iOS app I those two cities don’t have the (maximum) temperatures shown in that map.