The heat arrives on Italy, with heat in the Padana Valley and peaks up to 40 degrees in the south, and will continue throughout the week. However, some thunderstorms in the Alps are possible. These are the forecasts for the 3bmeteo.com website.
"After an unusually cool and rather dynamic first part of summer on Italy - explains meteorologist Andrea Vuolo -, starting from Monday - and at least until the beginning of August - the subtropical anticyclone will return to reinforce itself on the Mediterranean, determining a intense heat wave on our Peninsula ". For Vuolo, "the North African anticyclone will cause a sharp rise in temperatures, especially around midweek, where peaks of 38-40 ° C are likely to be expected in the areas of Central-South and up to 34-36 ° C in the lower Val Padana, with thermal zero rising up to 4,500 meters above sea level in the Alps ".
The heat will also be exacerbated by the feeling of mugginess that will tend to increase especially along the coasts and on the Po Valley, as well as in large cities, even at night, where the minimum temperatures will struggle to fall below 20-22 ° C "." The formation of customary heat storms in the Alps and Prealps will be possible around the middle of the week, also due to the transit of some modest unstable front of Atlantic origin north of the Alps ", warns Vuolo. In the first days of August , a downward disturbance from Central Europe will reach Northern Italy and part of the central regions, causing the passage of showers and even severe thunderstorms, together with a sudden sharp drop in temperature, with the final conclusion of the intense heat wave.
