Global Climate Changes and Global Warming: Effects Related to Extreme Weather Events on Local Scale

The attention towards environmental issues is today stimulated by a significant increasing of extreme weather events. The scientific and socio-political interest about phenomena such as flash floods, strong winds and storm surges has grown as a result of the impact caused on the daily life. Just to mention a few, landslides, mudslides, damage of buildings, loss of cultivations and in the most tragic circumstances, loss of human lives. In this work the global warming effects on a local scale, with specific reference to the frequency increase of extreme weather events are dealt. In this framework the most important findings obtained by using the WRF model (specially configured for Sicily) which allowed to analyze as a study case the flood that struck Messina on 10th October 2015 are reported. Furthermore an innovative monitoring system for the prevention of weather connected territory injuries is described.