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. Cloe is expected to bring rain to northern and central Italy tomorrow.
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Weather alert: strong t’storm in Tuscany
Strong thunderstorms are expected tomorrow (September 12, 2012) in Tuscany. In the early hours of morning thunderstorms will affect the northern part of the region – Lunigiana, Garfagnana, Versilia, Mugello – and the other part of Tuscany during the afternoon and the night.
“Poppea” is expected to come with rain
End of August under the rain. Raining already in the Northwestern regions and the Alps; now Northbound. These are the first major signs of weather changing. Tomorrow Pompea, the cyclonic vortex, is expected, the first autumn storm, with rainfall and storms from the Northwestern regions and Tuscany, bound to the central regions downh to Campania in the evening.
Beatrice to sweep away the heat wave
“Lucipherous”, the 7th subtropical cyclone of the season, is petering out. A significant change in the weather is forecast for tomorrow night thanks to the landfall of “Beatrice”, the long awaited end-of-August storm. This year the city of Florence had the hottest summer in decades not because of the extremes temperature recorded, but mostly because the heat wave lasted more than two months without rain.
Hottest summer ever in Florence: marked 40°C
The latest, dubbed Caligula, led the ministry of health to issue a red alert early this week for several Italian cities, including Florence, where temperatures were expected to hit more than 40 degrees Celsius. Still, record-keepers say this year’s heat has not beaten the 2003 mark for heat.
“Giant of the desert”, hot days in Tuscany
The seventh heat wave this summer 2012 is coming to Italy. The anticyclone “Giant of the desert” coming from the inland Moroccan embraces many European countries. According to the expert Francesco Nucera, it will be an exceptional situation not so much for the intensity but mostly for extent and duration.
Florence is hot until the mid-August
The southeast of Europe remained hot at the end of July and in the forst days of August. Temperatures climbed above 35 degrees in southern and central Italy. In the major city, Florence included, is weather alert.
“Charon” does not belie the promises
A hot day across Italy and much of eastern Europe. Brisk west winds will be blowing through the Straits of Gibraltar with a strong north wind through the Aegean Sea. Hot and dry as well across into Italy, Corsica and Sardinia follows on Monday. “Charon” does not belie the promises and is now at full power: is pushing very hot air to Italy and especially to the Central-South regions and Emilia Romagna. In Florence the maximum temperature is forecast to 39 °C.
Going to extremes: new heat wave in the city
The first heat had hit Florence in recent days. The forecast of the alert system for the prevention of heat-related risks to health informs that the maximum risk is expected in the middle of the day, when the temperature will rise to 36 degrees Celsius, although the perceived temperature will be 35 degrees, because of the humidity.
Rain forecast for Easter Sunday, sun on Monday
The weather will be wet on Easter Sunday with showers and thunderstorms in the morning. Francesco Nucera of 3bmeteo.com, reported that the rain on Easter morning will fall over Friuli, Veneto, Mantua, Emilia Romagna, the northern ridge, Tuscany, Marche, Umbria, Campania, Calabria especially on the Tyrrhenian side and northern Sicily and North.