Empirical analysis of hourly rainfall data in Sicily from 2002 to 2023 Vera Pecorino, T. Di Matteo, Matteo Milazzo, Luigi Pasotti, Alessandro Pluchino and Andrea Rapisarda Eur. Phys. J. B, 97 10 (2024) 154 Published online: 10 October 2024 DOI: 10.1140/epjb/s10051-024-00792-3