Metropolitan City of Cagliari the warmest month with an average temperature of that of about . African anticyclone activity can cause heat waves starting in June. From mid-June to mid-September rain is rare and appears in afternoon storms. The rainy season starts in September, but the first cold days come in December, usually the wettest month. Winds are frequent, especially the mistral and sirocco; in Summer days a marine sirocco breeze ("s'imbattu") lowers the temperature and the humidity. On the surrounding mountains, the climate is very different with plentiful average rainfall, cold winters, and mild warm summers (Csb in the Köppen climate classification). As
Sirocco (album) been tortured to death by David Briggs, or at least by his studio style, and needed a change. We got along incredibly well, it was all so comfortable. They played me twenty new songs, I gave them a list of the eleven I liked and we just said let’s go." "Sirocco" spent eight months in the Top 20 and was their most successful album. 1981 Australian End of Year Album Charts has "Sirocco" at #2 behind "Double Fantasy" by John Lennon and ahead of AC/DC's "Back in Black" making it the best charting album by an Australian act. The album