Tuscany has a first taste of autumn starting Sunday

FLORENCE, ITALY – With today’s temperatures reaching a warm 27 degrees Celsius at several cities throughout the peninsula, Ilmeteo chief forecaster, Antonio Sano’, says the arrival of this month’s third Atlantic weather front, “Cloe”, will bring rain to north-west Italy’s Piedmont later tonight.

Though short-lived, Cloe is expected to bring rain to northern and central Italy tomorrow, with heavier rains over Liguria, Piedmont, Lombardy and Italy’s north-east regions – Friuli-Venezia Giulia’s Udine, Gorizia and Trieste hardest hit – and milder, afternoon rainfall in parts of Tuscany, Marche, Umbria and Lazio (Rome included).

With precipitations turning to snow at an altitude of 1700 metres, the weather in much of southern Italy and in Sicily will stay hot and dry. As of Thursday, north-westerly to north-easterly winds will sweep across Italy, breeding the strongest weather change along Italy’s Adriatic coastline, bringing clear sunny skies and early morning lows of 11 degrees Celsius in northern Italy and Umbria as well as later lows of 6 to 7 degrees.

With short-lived milder weather in tow, the weather forecast is of rainy autumn spells as of Sunday September 23, as hot south-easterly winds set in, bringing temperatures of 37 degrees in Sicily and triggering rain over Sardinia and much of northern Italy. (Agi)