Starting today, high pressure is returning to Italy, initially with light oceanic influences and also disturbed by humid easterly currents in the lower layers of the north, then increasingly stronger and African.
From the weekend, peaks of 37°C will arrive in Rome, Benevento, Caserta, Foggia, Syracuse and Taranto, and over 38°C in Sardinia. The city that will warm up first will be Florence, up to 36°C in the next few hours, when Naples and Genoa will also reach 33-34°C.
This day, Thursday 22 August, will however be a little cloudier in the North due to a humid return from the east, with some showers moving from Veneto towards Lombardy and finally Piedmont: in the evening local showers are expected especially in Piedmont, during the day close to the Alps, Prealps and foothills.
Over the rest of the country we will have heat thunderstorms (in the afternoon) over the Apennines and in Sicily, locally spreading to the adjacent plains (a shower in Rome is not excluded).
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From Friday the high pressure will become predominantly African: here the temperatures will rise further to human fever values, even if there will still be some heat showers on the central-southern Apennines and Sicily; locally some showers could also reach the Tyrrhenian side up to the coasts in the hottest hours of the day, but these will be some isolated phenomena. It will be mostly Summer.
The weekend will also see a prevalence of sun and heat. To be precise, the models currently predict some heat storms in the afternoon, especially across the entire central-southern Apennines. African heat and heat storms, a combination we have seen many times in this very muggy Summer 2024.
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