A cold front is arriving in Italy, temperatures will drop from Sunday

(ANSA) – ROME, SEPTEMBER 28 – After the passage of the last peak of African heat in the South, a cold front is arriving in Italy which from Sunday will cause a sharp drop in temperatures and “then it will be autumn for everyone”. Mattia Gussoni, meteorologist on the website www.iLMeteo.it, is providing the weather forecast for the next few days, confirming that temperatures will drop in the next few hours starting from Northern Italy and gradually also in Central Italy. The heat will remain a little longer in the South where maximums of up to 35°C are expected in Syracuse, 34 in Catania, 32 in Bari, Crotone and Lecce, 31 in Agrigento, Andria, Barletta, Messina, Ragusa, Reggio Calabria and Trani; 30°C will be reached in Matera and Taranto. Meanwhile, irregular showers will arrive in the Centre-North with showers in the North-East, Lazio, Abruzzo and Molise, then from the afternoon the umbrellas will open or remain open in Lower Veneto, Romagna, Marche and the middle-lower Adriatic side; there will be no shortage of showers alternating with full sun on the Lower Tyrrhenian Sea, in a ‘North African’ thermal environment. From Sunday, however, everything will change and the thermometer – states Gussoni – will drop everywhere, even in the South. “In Bari, for example, the maximum will drop from 32°C in the next few hours to 22°C on Sunday, Syracuse and Catania will respectively from 35 and 34 to 29 and 28: the temperature drop will be significant almost everywhere and between 6 and 10°C less. Only in the North will temperatures remain stationary as they have already decreased in recent days”. For the first week of October, temperatures will remain below average, the rains will return to be intense from Wednesday, with an Atlantic autumn context characterized by scattered rain and “the real Autumn will arrive for everyone, a little early this year “, says Gussoni. In detail Saturday 28. In the North: it worsens from the Triveneto towards Emilia Romagna. In the Center: patchy thunderstorms, scattered. In the South: sunny and very hot up to 35°C, some showers in the Lower Tyrrhenian Sea. Sunday 29. In the North: sunny, but cooler. In the Center: local showers on the Adriatic coast. In the South: temperature drop and some clouds. Monday 30. In the North: increasing clouds. In the Center: sunny. In the South: sunny but cooler. Trend: beginning of October with Atlantic disturbances and frequent rain, especially in the Centre-North. (HANDLE).