Caserta, Florence and Terni will reach 37°C, while Ferrara and Forlì will touch 36°C, with Milan and Rome stopping at 34°C. This is the climate picture of the first day of September in Italy.
Meteorologists confirm the new expansion of the Charon anticyclone, which will bring an African heatwave for another seven days. Until early September, many parts of the country will see temperatures rise above 35-37°C, with peaks of 39°C, especially in Sardinia and Puglia.
However, in the next few hours there will be no shortage of thunderstorms, some of which are intense, over the central-southern Apennines and the Lower Tyrrhenian Sea.
The first signs of rain will appear in the morning between Sicily and Calabria, then spread throughout the Apennine ridge and surrounding areas in the afternoon, with particularly heavy showers in Sicily and the Campanian Apennines. Despite these showers, temperatures will reach 36°C in Caserta, Taranto, and Terni, and stabilize at 35°C in Benevento, Florence, Lecce, and Rome.
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From Thursday until Sunday 1st September, the heat will continue to increase and the thunderstorms will decrease: the last showers are expected around the Strait of Messina until Friday, but the weekend will be typically hot like that of the Solleone.
The Solleone is the period of great heat that generally occurs in the last ten days of July and the first half of August, and its name derives from the combination of the Sun and Leo (the zodiac sign in which the Sun is located at that time). However, this week we will experience a sort of "Sol-Virgo," given the current zodiac period.
This "Sol-Virgo" will be no different from the "Sol-Lone": we're expecting the same African heat and scorching sun as in late July and early August, a decidedly anomalous situation. The only normal thing emerging from the latest forecasts is the possible dip in this anomalous heat during the coming week: at the moment, it looks like a deep Atlantic disturbance could "break through" starting Wednesday, September 4th, bringing a drop in temperatures and heavy rains. However, this is a trend yet to be confirmed, so let's prepare for a week of "Sol-Virgo" as hot as the summer "Sol-Lone."
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