Watch out for thunderstorms and hail on May 1st

After just a few days, the high pressure field is starting to weaken again due to the arrival of a new disturbance which will bring not only unstable weather but also new drops in temperatures, right at the beginning of May and in the middle of the festive weekend of the Workers.

Margherita Erriu

Margherita Erriu 04/30/2024 12:22 5 min

This year it is really unfortunate regarding holidays and their possible “bridges”. In fact, many holidays have happened and will happen on already festive dayslike Sundays, and those few who can give us a few extra days of vacation are spending with not exactly optimal weather conditions.

It happened last week with the 25 AprilLiberation Day, and sadly the same will happen with the first of MayLabour day.

In fact even if at the moment conditions of general stability persist atmospheric, with mostly clear skies apart from a few local clouds on the two major islands and the north-western regions, without phenomenaone is coming disturbance of Atlantic origin which will then stay on our peninsula for a few days, bringing general bad weather conditions.

How will the weather evolve in the next few hours?

During today so we will see a gradual increase in cloud cover both to the west, in particular on Sardinia and the north-western regions: Valle D’Aosta, Piedmont and Liguria, which along the Apennine ridgeespecially in the central-northern sectors.

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The Sun's peak activity is upon us, are we ready? There may be disturbances on earth

By tonight are also expected first rainfall associated with this disturbance which will affect not only the aforementioned regions, but also some peninsular mountain areassuch as theTuscan-Emilian Apennines where there is also theyellow alert from civil protection due to storm risk.

Latest weather updates for May 1st: where will it rain?

During tomorrow, Wednesday 1 May, clouds and phenomena they will extend to a large part of the national territoryfocusing above all on the central-northern regions where they are expected widespread, extensive and persistent rainfall. They will also be able to hire reverse or thunderstorm characterwith associates lightning, gusts of wind and even possible local hailstorms.

During Wednesday 1st May, clouds and phenomena they will extend to a large part of Italyfocusing above all on the central-northern regions where they are expected widespread, extensive and persistent rainfall. They will also be able to hire reverse or thunderstorm character. Ppossible local strong hailstorms.

The disruption will also bring general temperature dropshowever not as decisive as in the case of last disturbance. This does not mean that temperatures will drop slightly, on the contrary, temperatures will drop significantlyeven 10 degrees in 24/48 hours, but they will be drops limited to a few days.

Larger declines are expected Thursday 2 May when we continue to have mostly cloudy or overcast skies with still widespread associated phenomena.

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Rain forecast by May 2nd: it will rain in many areas of Italy.

Bad weather it will not affect all of Italy in the same way but will focus mainly on the peninsular regions while especially Sicily will be affected only marginally.

The situation will begin slightly to change starting from Friday 3 Maywhen the clouds come more irregularallowing the sky to be seen from time to time, and also the phenomena will be less extensive, although they will still affect a large part of Italy. This means that almost all of Italy will be affected by rainfall but at different times and with different intensitiesafter a few kilometers we will be able to pass from dry weather conditions to intense thunderstorms.

New improvements are expected over the weekend

During Saturday day it will become slightly more noticeable a new reinforcement of the high pressure field which will generally bring the temperatures back in line with those typical for the beginning of May and will also bring a new one increase in atmospheric stability.

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Above all during central hours we can still have increases in cloud cover and scattered but gradually less extensive and intense phenomena.

Sunday then the improvement it will be more decisivethe stability will be more pronounced and temperatures will also return slightly above average.

These conditions of renewed atmospheric stability However, they won’t last long, in fact around the middle of next week the arrival of a disturbance is expected, which at the moment It doesn’t seem very intensebut which will bring new rainfall to a large part of Italy.

 
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