(ANSA) - ROME, MARCH 30 - Two disturbances are coming that will bring bad weather to Italy, with rain, snow and storm surges: the first, mild, from the Balearics, will bring widespread rain today and tomorrow on the Tyrrhenian side and, after 111 days of drought, also in the North;
the second, arriving on Friday, from Rovaniemi, the home of Santa Claus in Finland, will bring icy polar air with snow at hilly altitudes and a lot of bad weather, with storm surges.
The forecasts are by Lorenzo Tedici, meteorologist of iLMeteo.it.
At the Centrosud from Friday the cold air, underlines the meteorologist, will collide with the pre-existing North African air and will cause thunderstorms and hailstorms.
There will also be storm surges: the winds of 'Libeccio Freddo' arriving from the Porta del Rodano, Tedici notes, could also activate a very lively wave motion with waves of 5 meters from the Ligurian Sea to the Lower Tyrrhenian Sea and even 8 meters on the Sardinian Sea.
An exceptional period, notes the expert, which will make us fall back into Winter: it will be much colder next weekend than the very hot one of New Year's Eve 2022. But that's not all: the latest modeling projections indicate the possibility of an icy third cyclone arriving between Sunday evening and Monday.
In detail: Wednesday 30. In the north: overcast with rain, snow over 1500 meters.
Middle: bad weather over almost all regions.
In the south: gradual deterioration.
Thursday 31. In the north: heavier rains in the North-East and snow over 1400 meters.
In the center: rain almost everywhere and snow on the highest peaks.
South: very unstable across all regions.
Friday 1st April.
In the north: covered with rain, snow over 1000 meters.
In the center: bad weather on Sardinia and the Tyrrhenians with snow in the mountains, altitude decreasing up to 1200 meters.
In the south: diffuse rain.
Trend: the weather will continue to remain very unstable and will become colder, snow gradually at lower altitudes;
during the weekend possible snowfalls on hilly altitudes also in the Center.
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