Winter absent in Europe, struggling with hurricane winds and a lot of damage, snow in the Middle East with cold in Saudi Arabia, hot in Italy, but the disturbance of Valentine's Day is expected between Thursday and Friday. The photograph of an increasingly 'crazy' climate is by 3bmeteo.com meteorologist, Edoardo Ferrara. "The storm Ciara - he explains - has brought the central and northern European states to their knees with gusts of wind exceeding 100-150km / h, alluvial rains and a lot of damage.
Among the most affected areas are the British Isles, where there have been numerous floods; strong wind and damage in France, with the closure of the Eiffel Tower and about 130 thousand people without electricity ". If the winter is dormant in Europe, on the other hand, the Middle East is facing an exceptional cold wave, whose offshoots have reached Saudi Arabia a stone's throw from the Tropic of Cancer "- continues Ferrara -. The snow has whitened Baghdad where the temperature has dropped to -1 degrees (it has not happened since 2008), while in Syria temperatures of -6 have been reached. It should be pointed out peaks of -25 on inland areas of Turkey and peaks of -2 even in Cyprus ".
In Italy, continues the 3bmeteo.com meteorologist, "the weather is still dry, windy and warm for the period: in fact, in most of the Central South but also in the Northwest, they are in fact reached if not exceeded 18-20 degrees, with peaks 24-25 on the Adriatic side: we are talking about temperatures above the average of 10-12 and typically spring, but a rapid disturbance is expected between Thursday and Friday, which will bring some rain or even thunderstorm out of season first to the North, then to the Centrosud, accompanied by a new reinforcement of the wind and a drop in temperature that is at least appreciable in the mountains and on the Adriatic side, however, - concludes Ferrara - will be an episode that is an end in itself, as the anticyclone will return over the weekend and continue with this decidedly anomalous climatic trend ".
