A cold front is moving towards the
Alps while intense cyclone activity has been reported over the
main Italian islands with cold and snow forecast over the next
12 to 24 hours on the western Alps and violent storms expected
to hit Sicily and Sardinia, Lorenzo Tedici, meteorologist of
www.iLMeteo.it said on Tuesday.
Snow has been forecast at an altitude of over 800-1,000 metres
on the western Alps while storms will pummel Sicily and Sardinia
as two cyclones are brewing over northern and southern Italy,
Tedici said.
Snow in particular has been forecast in the southern area of
Piedmont, at an altitude of over 1,000 metres, and across the
western Alps until the Valle d'Aosta region.
Meanwhile intense rain and storms have been forecast in Sicily,
southern Calabria and western Sardinia.
The weather is expected to improve starting on Thursday while
temperatures will drop across the country on Friday, according
to Tedici.
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED © Copyright ANSA
