Weather, Italian weekend between intense heat and storms. The African anticyclone will push temperatures up to peaks of 35 degrees in the Center-South and 40 degrees in Sardinia.
Between tomorrow and Monday, the 6th disturbance of the month will be responsible for strong thunderstorms in the north. The weekend will be characterized on one hand by the consolidation of the African anticyclone over the central Mediterranean, on the other by the slow approach from France of a disturbance, the 6th of July, towards the Alps and the north-western regions.
The very hot air mass of Saharan origin associated with high pressure will start the third strong heat wave of the season with temperatures rising towards numerous peaks above 35 degrees in the Center-South and peaks around 40 degrees possible as early as tomorrow in Sardinia.
After today's day in which instability will increase in the Alps, tomorrow's disturbance will extend the risk of thunderstorms to the North-West regions where we will record a first slight drop in temperatures. At the beginning of next week, the disturbance and the less warm air that accompanies it will advance more decisively over Northern Italy - warn meteorologists at iconameteo.it -, where even very intense thunderstorms could develop. The intense heat from Tuesday will begin to ease in the Center and Sardinia, while the South will have to endure very high temperatures even in the following days.
Forecast for the next few hours
Over much of the plains of the North part and Center-Sud clear sky or at most slightly cloudy with some passing clouds. Irregular clouds since the morning instead in the Alpine sector and part of the Northwest with some isolated showers or thunderstorms initially on the Aosta Valley, Piedmont reliefs and north-west of Lombardy. In pomeriggio local showers or thunderstorms possible along the Alps and Prealps with possible local incursions towards the Turin plain.
Temperature generally increasing; values close to 40°C in Sardinia, elsewhere possible peaks between 34 and 37 degrees.
Winds of Sirocco strengthening and locally moderate in Sardinia. Elsewhere light winds, except for breeze reinforcements.
Mari: almost all calm or slightly rough; locally rough in the Strait of Otranto, the Sea and Strait of Sardinia.
Forecast for tomorrow, Sunday, July 25
In the Center-South stable weather with clear skies, especially in the South and in Sicily; transit of medium-high clouds locally dense over Sardinia and the central regions. Cloudiness will become more compact on Northwest and on the Alpine areas, while clear skies will still prevail on Emilia and around the upper Adriatic. morning local showers or thunderstorms possible mostly between upper Piedmont and western upper Lombardy; occasional rain in central Liguria. In pomeriggio scattered showers and thunderstorms over much of the Alpine arc, in Piedmont and western Lombardy. In evening showers and thunderstorms could persist between western Piedmont and central-northern Lombardy.
Temperatures slightly rising further Center-Sud: peaks around 40°C in Sardinia, between 34 and 38 degrees in the rest of the Centre-South and in the lower Po Valley. Maximums falling at NorthwestSirocco winds strengthening, up to moderate or strong on the western sectors of the Tyrrhenian Sea.
Mari: rough or very rough Ligurian Sea, upper Tyrrhenian Sea, seas east of Sardinia; slightly rough to rough middle and upper Adriatic; calm or slightly rough the remaining basins.
Forecast for Monday
Mostly clear skies in Sicilia and to the extreme South. Variable cloudiness over the rest of the country, denser over the northern regions. In the early hours of the day, between night and morning, scattered showers and thunderstorms in Lombardy and central-northern Piedmont, more isolated over the eastern Alps and central Liguria; during the day the probability of thunderstorms will also increase over Emilia (especially the north and west of the region) and over North-East (especially in Veneto and Alpine areas). On Northwest the weather will remain variable, with a possible new accentuation of instability from the evening.
Temperature: decreasing in the North, especially in the western regions; further slightly increasing in Sicily and the South.
Winds: Sirocco thesis on the western sector of the Tyrrhenian Sea; generally weak in the North, weak to moderate in the South on the peninsular regions and on the Islands.
Mari: very rough the upper Tyrrhenian Sea, the western sectors of the central and southern Tyrrhenian Sea; slightly rough to locally rough the Adriatic, the Sardinian and Sicilian Channels; mostly slightly rough the remaining sectors.
Article published on 24 July 2021 - 11:06
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