(ANSA) - ROME, 14 JAN - The real Italian winter is coming from North to South. From Sunday 15 January, as widely expected already in recent days, we will go from a long period in the company of the African anticyclone with highs of up to 20°C in the South, and even 15°C in the Po Valley, to a winter phase with very heavy rains and a gradual drop in temperatures.
To say it is Mattia Gussoni, meteorologist of the website www.iLMeteo.it, who confirms a slow but widespread drop in temperatures, while the winter-style bad weather, with lots of rain on the Tyrrhenian side and in the South, will come alive quickly.
From Sunday afternoon, according to iLMeteo.it, "it will snow in the Alps above 700-900 meters, in particular in the Aosta Valley and then in the evening also in the Triveneto.
The new week will finally see some 'convinced' flakes also on the northern and central Apennines above 700 meters, from Tuesday with a significant cold worsening, snow will be possible up to 300 meters in the North and over 500-600 meters also in the Centre.
From mid-week - he continues - the cold air will also gradually spread towards the South with the first snowfalls at hilly altitudes on Thursday and Friday when the white lady could be the protagonist up to the plains of Lower Piedmont, Lower Lombardy, Emilia and also between Liguria and Tuscany " .
At the moment, explains the expert, "Thursday and Friday seem to be the coldest and snowiest days".
Before arriving at this winter phase, he specifies.
"We will have some rains in the next few hours on the mid-Adriatic and southern regions followed by an improvement, while the weather will be pleasant elsewhere".
So here is a summary of the Highlights, foreseen by iLMeteo.it for this new winter week: gradual drop in temperatures (initially not very marked), torrential rains on the Tyrrhenian side in particular in the Centre-South, snow up to the plains possible on Tuesday 17 in the north, snow at low between Thursday and Friday also on part of the plants with intensification of the frost throughout the boot.
"All we have to do - concludes the expert - is to make the change of season, with a couple of months of delay we will take raincoats in the South and duvets in the Center out of the wardrobes; the North was already ready".
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