(ANSA) - ROME, AUG 11 - A temperature of 48.8°C was
registered in the province of Siracusa on Wednesday by Sicily's
SIAS agency in what looks set to be a new European record.
"If the figure is confirmed after the appropriate analysis, it
could be the highest value ever registered on the European
continent, " said 3bmeteo.com meteorologist Manuel Mazzoleni.
"That would beat the previous record of 48°C taken in Athens on
July 10, 1977 and it would even beat the record of 48.5°C
recorded at an unofficial station at Catenanuova in August
1999". (ANSA).
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