48.8°C Record Town: Floridia's Heat Becomes a 'New Lockdown' 5 Years On
Five years after Floridia, Sicily set Europe's 48.8°C temperature record, residents describe heat as a new form of lockdown that is emptying piazzas, disrupting traditions and threatening livelihoods. The WMO-certified record is now a lived baseline, not a statistical outlier, as prolonged heatwaves reshape daily life across the warming Mediterranean.
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