Palermo airport in Sicily will remain closed on Tuesday due to the large fire that has broken out in the area, while at the same time extreme weather conditions continued to attack Italy, with heavy storms causing damage and at least two deaths in the north of the country.

The airport of the Sicilian capital will remain closedas the administration informs on Twitter, as well firefighters are working to extinguish a large fire in a nearby area which also disrupted local road and rail traffic.

The incident comes to burdens Sicily’s tourist activity at the peak of the tourist season. The main airport on the island of Catania, Italy’s fifth largest, was closed last week due to a terminal building fire and reopened for only a few flights.

Heat wave hits southern Europewith high temperatures increasing the risk of fires and deaths.

In some areas of eastern Sicily, temperatures reached 47.6 degrees Celsius on Mondayvery close to the previous record high of 48.8 Celsius recorded on the island two years ago.

On Tuesday, Italy put 16 cities on red alert due to high temperatures. These include the Palermo and the Cataniawhere there have been power and water outages in recent days.

In the meantime, A storm in Milan overnight ripped through damaged roofs and uprooted treesclosing roads and disrupting ground transport in Italy’s financial capital.

Two women were killed on Monday and Tuesday in the northern provinces of Monza and Brescia, when they were overwhelmed by trees.

On Monday, a New York-bound Delta ( DAL.N ) flight that had taken off from Milan’s Malpensa airport was severely damaged by hail and forced to land in Rome.

Italy is one of the European countries most affected by climate change and suffered deadly floods in May