in Lombardy everything changes in a few hours. Storms coming (and they will last)

Milan – From 30 degrees to new thunderstorms: Saturday and Sunday are poles apart Lombardywhere is the weather forecast will suffer within a few hours yet another turning point. And so, after a few days of respite and almost summer temperatures, the storms will return during the day, which will continue (at least) throughout the beginning of next week, with all due respect to those who hoped that the bad weather would be put away for a while. But what exactly will happen in the next few hours? “The rapid movement of a vast area of ​​low pressure from the Iberian Peninsula to the Mediterranean will bring an increasing probability of showers and thunderstorms in the Alps, but tomorrow, Sunday 9th, the same low pressure will also reach Northern Italy, causing between the afternoon and evening the passage of widespread showers and thunderstorms, even of strong intensity”, we read in meteorological bulletin released by Arpa Lombardia. “For the beginning of the week the weather will remain unreliable with local showers, but a new ‘heavy’ passage of rain and thunderstorms is expected for Wednesdaywhich could be followed by improvement”.

Here they are forecast for the next few days from Arpa Lombardia bulletin

Tomorrow Sunday 9 June

On Sunday morning the sky will be irregularly cloudy, with temporary clear spells, especially on the central-eastern plain. Cloudy to very cloudy from the afternoon due to cumulus clouds. Precipitation is expected from the afternoon in the form of showers and thunderstorms starting from the Alps and Pre-Alps, extending in the evening to the entire plain, with probable local phenomena of strong intensity. The temperatures will drop slightlywith minimums in the plains between 16 and 20 degrees centigrade and maximums between 26 and 30.

Monday 10 June

Variable weather throughout the day on Monday, with residual precipitation during the night in the eastern provinces. Local showers and thunderstorms will pick up in the afternoon in the mountains and are also possible in the evening on the plains. Minimum temperatures decreasing, maximum temperatures stationary or locally increasing.

Rain until mid-week, with a difficult Wednesday

There variability will continue over the entire region on Tuesday, when precipitation is likely across a large part of Lombardy. The trend for Wednesday is likely to have widespread and at times intense cloud cover with precipitation in many areas, including in the form of showers and thunderstorms, and decreasing temperatures. Residual rains are possible on Thursday before a general improvement, “however – warns the bulletin released by Arpa – the forecast has a low degree of reliability”.

The African heat will characterize the weekend in most regions, but thunderstorms and hail will also dominate in the North. Mattia Gussoni, meteorologist of the website www.-, underlines the strength of the first heat wave of 2024 with highs of up to 12°C above the climatological average for June. In Italy this first wave, associated with the African anticyclone, will bring 34°C to the North, 38°C to the Center (Sardinia) and 43°C to the South (Sicily). It will therefore be an extreme event associated with global warming.

In the next few hours, therefore, it will reach 34°C in the North, especially in Emilia Romagna and with oppressively muggy conditions; in the Center it will reach around 35-36°C in Umbria, up to 38°C in the western sector of Sardinia; in the South the hottest city will be Taranto with 36 degrees. On Sunday, however, the heat will also increase in the south and locally between Lazio, Abruzzo and Molise: peaks of 37°C are expected between Puglia, Calabria and Sicily, while in The bad weather will be scary in the North. Since the afternoon of Sundayin fact, very violent storms will descend from the western Alps towards the Po Valley with local tornadoes and/or hailstorms: “We do not exclude – states Gussoni – the formation of these extreme phenomena as the disturbance will arrive after days of great heat and above all high humidity”.

There new week will remain shaped by this Sunday imprint: in the North and in part of the Center a flow of rain and thunderstorms will remainIn the South, however, the thermometer will continue to rise. The peak of the heat will be reached between Tuesday and Wednesday in Sicily with 43°C in the internal areas, between Enna and Caltanissetta. Puglia and Calabria will also be hot with values ​​close to or locally above 40°C: «We are still in Spring and the climatic fever already covers the whole of the south; in the far South, among other things, no significant temperature drops are expected even in the long term and the African anticyclone could remain in these areas for a long time”, warns the meteorologist.