Milan – It’s not over yet. In the past few hours yet another wave of bad weather caused quite a few problems in Lombardy with flooding and cars stuck in underpasses and widespread inconveniences throughout the territory. But let’s not fool ourselves: the rains will return to hit the region in the next few hours. In fact, Lombardy is affected by a large depression circulation, with conditions of sometimes disturbed variability. Even today, Wednesday 12 June, especially in the afternoon and evening, will be possible temporal (even of strong intensity). But let’s see the forecasts for the next few hours and the scenarios for the second half of the week, based on Arpa Lombardy weather forecast.
The forecast for today, Wednesday 12 June: heavy rainfall expected in the evening
Today Wednesday 12 June
State of the sky: mostly very cloudy or overcast throughout the region, with more compact cloud cover in the second part of the day. Precipitation: residual showers and thunderstorms during the night in the eastern sectors. From the early afternoon, new showers and thunderstorms scattered starting from the mountain areas but possible in all sectors. Temperatures: minimum and maximum temperatures slightly decreasing. In the plains minimums between 15 and 18 °C, maximums between 21 and 26 °C. Thermal zero: around 2700 meters. Winds: weak easterly in the plains with temporary and local reinforcements, weak in the mountains from the western quadrants.
Tomorrow Thursday 13 June
State of the sky: residual thickening during the night, especially in the eastern part, from the morning a tendency to clearing with irregular and variable cloud cover in the rest of the day. Precipitation: weak residual during the night in the eastern sectors; between late morning and afternoon local showers and thunderstorms possible in the central-eastern pre-Alpine areas, only occasional in the plain. Temperatures: minimums stationary or slightly decreasing, maximums slightly increasing. In the plains minimums around 15 °C, maximums around 23 °C. Thermal zero: around 2800 meters. Winds: weak in the plains from the east or of variable direction, in the mountains weak and tending to move from the north.
Friday 14 June
State of the sky: cloudy across the entire region with local thickening at times more marked in mountainous areas. Precipitation: absent except for some occasional showers in the mountain areas in the central hours of the day. Temperatures: minimum and maximum slightly increasing. Thermal zero: at around 2800 metres, rising up to around 3600 metres. Winds: weak in the plains with variable direction, weak in the mountains mainly from the southwestern quadrant.
Italian weather: the general picture
Last two days of strong storms, then the weather improves. More solid and long-lasting high pressure since the weekend. Lorenzo Tedicimeteorologist of the website -, confirms the passage of two other main storm fronts, one in the North and one in the Centre-North: “We will find other widespread showersbefore one more stable and sunny phase everywhere – explains -. In the next few hours the instability will still be decidedly marked in the North with thunderstorms that could be strong locally: gusts of wind and hailstorms are also expected with the phenomena expected in the morning between Lombardy and Triveneto, then in the afternoon in a patchy pattern throughout the north . These will be significant showers, but short-lived, with dry phases during the day. In the Center the weather will be good except for local afternoon showers from the Apennines towards the Marche, while in the South we will still experience the super African heat: the hottest highs are expected in Sicily with Agrigento and Caltanissetta at 36°C, in Puglia with Lecce and Taranto at 35°C together with Matera in Basilicata. 32-33°C are also expected to spread across Calabria, almost normal temperatures for the period in this region.”
The day of Tomorrowhe adds, “will see the last disturbed impulse cross the North and then the Centre: thunderstorms are expected in the morning in the North-East and between Tuscany, Umbria and Marche; subsequently we will find more thunder and lightning in the same areas and in partial extension to Abruzzo, Molise and internal areas of Lazio. In the South the thermometers will still read 37°C in Sicily, 35°C in Puglia, 33°C in Calabria and Basilicata. It will be the last day of African super heat during this ‘first torrid phase of 2024. From Friday, in fact, the heat will also ease in the south and the weather will be mostly good from North to South except for modest concentrations in the first part of the day on the Adriatic sector. From the weekend the sun will dominate Italy without the nightmare of storms and hail: at most we will find some heat showers in the Alps. But be careful, this forecast for weekendaccording to the latest emissions from supercomputers, could remain valid for about ten days, with a neggs gradual expansion of the African Anticyclone. In fact, supercalculators predict continued high pressure at least until Summer Solstice (this year it falls on June 20th at 10.50 pm): as we well know, unfortunately, high pressure of African origin in June, with full sun for several days, means a strong increase in temperatures”. And “they are not excluded peaks of 38°C also in the Center with the possibility that this torrid ‘second phase’ of 2024 will be more intense than the one that is closing in these days”
