Still a lot of rain in Italy according to the weather forecast for today and tomorrow. The bad weather is expected to last until Sunday, when the African anticyclone will return. Lorenzo Tedici, meteorologist of the website www.-, confirms that in the next few hours the extreme autumn-style bad weather will hit Germany and Poland, having quickly moved away from Italy already on Tuesday 21 May; in the North and close to the central Apennines there will however remain widespread instability during the hottest hours of the day.
In practice they are showers or thunderstorms expected north of the Po river and in the internal areas of the central regions in the afternoon. This increase in cloud cover will also cause a slight drop in temperatures: maximum temperatures of up to 30°C are expected in the South, 25-26°C in the Center and around 23 in the North. In short, no African heat, for now.
Thursday 23 May will see the return of new widespread rains in the North, gradually extending from Piedmont towards the North-East. In the Centre-South the situation will be sunnier with maximum temperatures rising very slightly in these sectors: we are talking about an average increase of 1°C, not much, still no summer heat.
Friday will be the best day of the week with dry weather almost everywhere except for local showers close to the northern mountains and locally up to the adjacent plains: in other words in the North we will still have some open umbrellas, but nothing compared to the last weeks of this very rainy May.
Over the weekend, a new disturbance could bring some showers towards the central-southern regions: a novelty, after a period of bad weather in the North, some rain will move elsewhere. In particular, phenomena are expected on Saturday in the central Tyrrhenian regions and in Sicily, while the last Sunday of May will see rainfall in the middle Adriatic, Lazio and the southern peninsula. We will end the week with some full rain gauges, but the next one, as mentioned, will be accompanied by a ‘silent novelty’: the models seem increasingly in agreement in predicting the arrival of high pressure with sunshine and temperatures above the average for the period.
From the end of May ‘the silence of the heat’ will replace the roar of thunder and pouring rain which has hit part of our country in the last very humid weeks.
IN DETAIL
Wednesday 22. In the North: markedly unstable weather with frequent showers. In the Centre: some thunderstorms on the mountains and nearby areas, showers on the Adriatic coasts. In the South: good weather.
Thursday 23. In the North: scattered thunderstorms, strong in the Northwest. In the Center: scattered showers in the Apennines, sunny elsewhere. In the South: good weather.
Friday 24th. In the North: sunnier, but there will be scattered rainfall. In the Center: sunny. In the South: sunny and warmer.
Trend: gradually less unstable in the North, showers towards the Centre-South; next week with the probable arrival of the African anticyclone.
