[1/2] People use umbrellas to hide from the sun, as they queue to enter the Milan's Duomo Cathedral, during a heatwave, in Milan, Italy, August 21, 2023. It was the hottest day since the Milano Brera weather station started recording temperatures in 1763. ARPA statement that Aug. 23 and 24 have been the hottest days of the summer across the whole of the Lombardy region which surrounds Milan, with several towns registering peak temperatures above 40 C.It added that "intense and abnormal" temperatures also hit the Italian Alps. The heatwave is about to end though, the agency said, giving way to heavy thunderstorms and a sharp drop in temperatures of up to 10-15 C early next week. Reporting by Federica Urso, editing by Gavin Jones and Emelia Sithole-MatariseOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

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Persons: Claudia Greco, Federica Urso, Gavin Jones, Emelia Organizations: Cathedral, REUTERS, Rights, Milano, ARPA, Thomson Locations: Milan, Italy, Milano Brera, Rome, Europe, Lombardy, Italian