San Pietro e Paolo once marked the beginning of the bathing season. Before the summer advances of the last few decades, June 29 was the date on which families (those who could afford “the sea”) started the bathing season. A ritual, however, spread everywhere in the post-solstice, both in the city and in the countryside, in the “blades” of rivers and streams, in lakes, thanks to the sun and the heat. This ancient holiday calendar has come up again this year. Not only for the Covid-19 emergency but also for the beginning-summer suffered from a “cool” and rainy climate that changed only with the solstice.
After a few days with the now almost forgotten Azores anticyclone, the advance of African high pressure made the temperatures rise by 6-9 degrees in the daily averages. The maxims have risen everywhere despite the storms that still hit the region on Saturday. The third inconvenient in this early summer is in fact the Atlantic which crosses the Alps with showers that calm the ambitions of the African. Last year of these days we were at the mercy of the high Afro-Mediterranean pressure with thermal values that reached 40 degrees between 26 and 29 in many places. In this week, however, it will still be the waves that swirl against our Alpine arc the distant Irish-Scottish cyclone to prevent the paroxysm of the summer heat.
This morning a disturbed arm will touch the northern Alps with some disturbance on Verbano and upper Vallée, for the rest beautiful sunny and summer day without excess but with the maximum climbs up to over 30 degrees. Still prevalence of clear tomorrow with the containment of the maximum below 30 degrees, while on Wednesday here is a new offensive of the northern cyclone with an instability that will cause thunderstorms to the north (Verbano, Novarese) already in the morning and afternoon from Biella to the southern provinces .
On Thursday, weak rain showers are expected to be scattered throughout the day between Vco, Novarese and Vercelli, which will pass through Cuneo and Asti only in the evening. Scattered rain showers that will continue on Friday morning with the hail always lurking. The African will take the reins of the situation on Saturday and Sunday with highs that rise almost everywhere above 30 °.
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