A storm front is moving up Italy this time Sunday 19 May: caused heavy rain in Sardinia in the early hours of the morning, 11mm the rainfall accumulation on Cagliari where the temperature dropped to +17°C, and now storms are hitting western Sicily. Heavy rain in Trapani and Scopello, the temperature dropped to +19°C while in eastern Sicily the sun shines veiled by the sand of the Sahara and it is hot with peaks of +30°C in Gela, +29°C in Noto, +27°C in Taormina, +25°C in Catania, Messina and Syracuse.
The storm front is moving up the Tyrrhenian Sea and will also arrive in Lazio and Campania in the next few hours, as well as encompassing all of Sicily and southern Calabria during the day:
A very important day today also for the Tour of Italy which arrives in the Alps with a very hard stage: it is the longest stage of this edition, of 222kmwith a height difference of 5,400 metres from Manerba del Garda at 2,385 meters above sea level in Livigno, after 5 very tough climbs including the epic Mortirolo. The stage will start at 10.25am with an estimated arrival just before 4.30pm, after around six hours in the saddle. Pay attention here too bad weatherlurking in the final phase of the race.
Weather alert for tomorrow, Monday 20 May
Tomorrow, Monday 20 May, a third African front will move up Italy after those of yesterday and today. This time it will be much more intense with a real cyclonic structure that will rise from the Maghreb towards the Tyrrhenian Sea, fueling impetuous sirocco winds on Sicily and Calabria, and then in the afternoon-evening mistral winds on Sardinia.
The bad weather will move up the central-western Mediterranean, concentrating in the evening Liguria And Piedmont, where we will have torrential rains with lots of sand from the Sahara after strong storms already occurred yesterday. Scattered rain and some thunderstorms too Lombardy, Emilia Romagnathe central Apennines in the internal areas, and the Sardinia:
To monitor the situation as best as possible weather forecast in real time, below we provide a list of pages with all the useful information to follow the meteorological nowcasting minute by minute:
Below are the links for direct access to the pages with the weather forecasts, particularly accurate in detail, for the geographical areas of Italy (links can also always be reached from the menu at the top of all pages of the site):
Weather forecasts Region by Region:
Complete weather forecast for Reggio Calabria
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