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People cooling off near the Spanish Steps, during a heatwave across Italy, in Rome on July 18, 2023.
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Lara Williams
Anyone kicking off the summer holidays with a trip to the Mediterranean will have been greeted by back-to-back heatwaves, starting with Cerberus, aptly named by Italian meteorologists after the three-headed hound of Hades that guards the gates of the underworld in Greek mythology.
This week’s scorcher, called Charon, is pushing temperatures as high as 48 deg C in Sardinia and Sicily. Greece and Spain are also expected to feel heat into the 40s. Thanks to the climate crisis, these extremes are no longer so unusual.
