All of Italy is underwater, after 20 days, due to the arrival of a new cyclone that will ruin the Carnival.
Mattia Gussoni, meteorologist on the website www.iLMeteo.it, warns that today will be the worst in terms of rainfall, in fact the rain will soak the whole country.
Precipitation will be heaviest in Liguria, along the Tyrrhenian coasts, in Friuli Venezia Giulia and in the Alpine and pre-Alpine sectors.
The disturbance driven by the cyclone will be fueled by intense Sirocco winds that can blow up to 90 km/h, causing storm surges along the most exposed coasts.
There will also be snow.
The white flakes will descend copiously across the Alps on average above 1200-1400 metres, accumulating up to 1 meter of snow around 2000 metres.
On the Apennines, however, snow will only fall above 1500-1700 metres.
On Sunday it will rain again, but a slow improvement is expected starting from the afternoon, especially in the North-West, in the central-southern Adriatic area, in the Ionian sectors and in eastern Sardinia.
Snowfall will continue in the Alps, at slightly lower altitudes and from 1000 meters close to the borders, from 1500 meters on the central mountains.
From a thermal point of view, given that the mild Scirocco winds will continue to blow, temperatures will not drop much, only by a handful of degrees during the day, while they will tend to increase at night, even approaching daytime values.
The cyclone will begin to move rapidly away from Italy as early as Monday when the sun will shine again over much of the Centre-North.
In the following days the temporary increase in pressure will guarantee sunny weather with Valentine's Day being truly mild for the season.
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