Weather forecast, Italy split between thunderstorms and the first African heat

Over the next few days theItaly will be literally split in two: on the one hand thunderstorms, even violent ones and with the risk of hail, on the other hand a first African blaze capable of causing temperatures to rise well above 30°C.

Antonio Sanòfounder of the website www.iLMeteo.it, announces that starting today a deep depression, driven by Atlantic currents, will rapidly cross central-northern Europe, and then plunge into the Mediterranean basin directly from the Rhone Gate.

As often happens with this type of configuration, the entry of cold currents onto our seas will favor the formation of a cyclone destined to cause rain and thunderstorms in the North, in particular during the Tuesday 14th, Wednesday 15th and Thursday 16th May. Due to the violent entry of cold air at high altitude, extreme phenomena at a local level cannot be ruled out, such as tornadoes and hailstorms, given the strong contrasts that will be created in our country.

Be careful though, there will not only be bad weather: due to the anti-clockwise rotation of the currents around the low depression, we expect the simultaneous rise of a very warm air mass of sub-tropical origin, directly from the Sahara desert, which within the African anticyclone will expand across all our central-southern regions. Temperatures well above seasonal averages are expected in these sectors, with maximum peaks that they could reach 35°C in Calabria and Puglia and will even touch the threshold of 38/40°C in the internal areas of Sicily.

Italy will therefore likely find itself divided in two on the weather front: the North will suffer yet another strong wave of bad weather, while the South will experience fully summer days.

In detail

Monday 13th. In the north: worsening especially in the Alps and Pre-Alps. In the center: gradually cloudier.

In the south: sunny and warmer.

Tuesday 14th. In the north: widespread unstable weather. In the center: rain and thunderstorms alternating with sunny spells. In the south: all sun

Wednesday 15: In the north: more rain and scattered thunderstorms. In the centre: mostly good weather. In the south: all sunshine.

Trend: at least until Friday, unstable circulation in action in Italy, often rainy and stormy weather in the centre-north; drier elsewhere.