The salentine peninsula, being extended on the sea, is characterized by a more humid climate compared to that of the rest of Apulia, where the Apennine mountains reduce the quantity of the winds humidity coming from the west. Dampness is not cause of precipitations, that howevwe, are more then in the north of Apulia, but it causes an even more clear transformation of the temperatures: summer, especially in the more southern areas, are particularly sultry, while winter, even though very mild and with temperatures much over the zero, even in the more cold periods, can be freezing when winds blow.

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