Next week will be extreme in terms of climate. In fact, an intense heat wave awaits us, the strongest so far, with direct consequences from North to South.
What causes this significant thermal increase (we are talking about values of approximately 8-10°C above the climatic averages expected in mid-June, especially in the Centre-South) will be humid and warm air masses of sub-tropical origin arriving already at the start of the week (Monday 17 June) from Africa which, from inside the Sahara desert, will stretch towards the Mediterranean Sea.
The map below shows exactly the predicted climate anomaly, with color rose to indicate the scorching hot bubble rising from the African continent towards the heart of Europe.
These conditions will accompany us for a good part of the week, at least until Thursday 20 June (Summer Solstice), so much so that we will have a ample sunshine and widespread heat about our country.
Only towards the next one weekend the anticyclone could be “punctured” by the arrival of fresh and unstable air currents descending from Northern Europe which would then interact with the very hot and humid air masses transported to the Mediterranean basin by the African anticyclone. Precisely in this one “nobody’s land” the greatest and most insidious contrasts occur: the heat and humidity that accumulate in the lower layers of the atmosphere (potential energy) increase the risk of extreme weather events such as storms And hailstorms.
However, given the still long temporal distance, we will have the opportunity to return to this in our next updates: for now there will be room for the first serious heat wave across Italy.
