Bad weather coming from Northern
Europe forecast on Sunday is expected to ease a heatwave that
has gripped Italy for the past 35 days, meteorologist Mattia
Gussoni of the weather forecast site www.iLMeteo.it said on
Saturday.
"Temperatures will drop over the next 12-36 hours by at least 10
degrees across Italy as an Atlantic low-pressure area is
arriving with fresh air from Scotland", he noted.
Temperatures will remain high on Saturday, with peaks of 39
degrees in in Siracusa, and 38 in Catania, Sicily, 37 in Taranto
and Lecce, in Puglia, and 36 in Bologna and Ferrara, in Emilia
Romagna.
The heat will instead start easing on Saturday in Milan,
Florence and Rome, where about 32-33 degrees have been forecast.
However, the drastic drop in temperatures, up to 10 degrees in
the Centre-North, has been forecast on Sunday, with 22 degrees
expected in Milan and 24-25 in Bologna and Florence, among other
cities.
The situation in the South will be different as temperatures
will retain peaks of 35-36 degrees on Sunday but are expected to
drop on Monday.
The arrival of a cold air mass will clash with the hot air mass
over Italy with the risk of heavy storms forecast in particular
over Sardinia and the North-West and the possible involvement of
Tyrrhenian regions, in particular Tuscany.
Bad weather is expected in the morning over the North-West, from
which it will proceed towards the North-East and then central
regions to reach Campania, in the South, in the second part of
the day.
Heavy thunderstorms and hailstorms with downburst winds,
tornadoes and possible flash floods " are feared over these
areas", observed Gussoni.
The spate of bad weather will continue on Monday in Emilia
Romagna, Marche and over the majority of areas along the
Adriatic coast of Italy.
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