Last few days of exceptional heat with values 10-11 degrees higher than the averages for the period and a lot of smog.
From Thursday, slowly, the thermometer will move back towards the climatology of the period and rain will return to the plains and snow to the Alps. This is what Lorenzo Tedici, meteorologist on the website www.iLMeteo.it, says.
remembering that the temperatures recorded in February to date are typical of April.
"In Milan, Turin, Bologna, Venice and Bolzano, for example - he underlines - the average maximum temperature in February is around 8-9°C while we have too often reached 17-19°C".
In the next few hours, a first front will bring rain and local thunderstorms to the south and locally to the centre, especially on the Adriatic side.
From the afternoon the unstable air will form a small vortex on the Ionian Sea which will bring more widespread and intense rains on Sicily.
Tomorrow we will experience the classic day of meteorological truce with large bursts of sunshine almost everywhere and temperatures still decidedly mild.
From Thursday we will turn the page: from the polar areas, a cyclone with cold air could descend towards the Mediterranean which will bring widespread rain, which will clean the air of smog, and light snowfall in the Alps. The snow level will initially be high for the period, then decreasing during the night .
On Friday we will instead have very heavy snowfalls (over half a meter) above 1000-1500 meters in the central-eastern Alps.
In detail - Tuesday 20. In the north: partly cloudy skies.
In the center: irregular clouds.
In the south: widespread instability with rain and showers.
- Wednesday 21. In the north: initially sunny, then a general increase in cloudiness.
In the center: partly cloudy, stable skies.
In the south: latest rains in south-eastern Sicily, sunshine elsewhere.
- Thursday 22. In the north: widespread rainfall, snow in the Alps; drier in Emilia Romagna.
In the center: cloudy, rain in Upper Tuscany.
In the south: good weather prevailing.
- Trend: a cyclone arrives from the polar areas full of snow and rain.
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