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WARM AND MAINLY STABLE SATURDAY. The African anticyclone, expanding from North Africa towards Italy, will culminate during the upcoming weekend, bringing summer and mostly stable conditions practically across the entire country. However, you will have to deal with some disorders, represented by the usual one diurnal variability that will affect the Alpine and pre-Alpine areas on Saturday, responsible for some showers or brief thunderstorms. Over the rest of Italy the sun will dominate the scene and will only be obscured by harmless and thin veils flowing between the Po Valley, Liguria, Tuscany and Sardinia. Temperatures will further increase throughout Italy and the highest values will be reached in the internal areas of Sardinia Tavoliere, Materano and Cosentino, with peaks of 36/37°C.
STORMS ARRIVE IN THE NORTH ON SUNDAY, STILL VERY HOT IN THE SOUTH. Already on Sunday, however, the anticyclone will begin to weaken under the pressure of a disturbance driven by a depression approaching from southwestern Europe. He will follow through a gradual worsening in the North starting from the western Alpine areas, with showers and thunderstorms intensifying in the afternoon and extending to the remaining Alpine range and lowland areas. Given the notable thermal contrasts between the pre-existing warm air and the entry of cooler and more unstable Atlantic air masses, they are expected thunderstorms, including strong ones, by the evening, especially in central-northern Piedmont and Lombardy, parts of Emilia and western Veneto, accompanied by local hailstorms, storms and gusts of wind. Rain and showers will also reach the rest of the Triveneto and Tuscany during the evening, and the upper Marche, Umbria and upper Lazio in the late evening or night. The anticyclonic phase will continue in the rest of Italy with stable weather and with sun obscured by the passage of veils and high stratifications, a little thicker between Sardinia and Central Italy. Temperatures will drop in the North-West and Sardinia, while they will not yet undergo significant changes in the North-East and the other central regions. They will be able to rise a few degrees in the South, so much so that they can be reached peaks of 37/39°C on Tavoliere delle Puglia, Materano, Cosentino and internal Catanese. For the trend for next week Click here.
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Even in high pressure conditions, in the height of summer, short, localized but sometimes intense thunderstorms can suddenly form and surprise us: they are the so-called ‘heat storms’ and are more likely between late afternoon and early evening.
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