A real winter outbreak is now upon Italy’s doorstep and in the next few days it will hit our country with strong winds, an intensification of the cold and snowfall down to very low altitudes, if not on the plains.
The first signs of a turning point are already underway due to the transit of a disturbance linked to a cyclonic vortex traveling towards the north-eastern area of the Old Continent.
Our attention is now focused on a another disturbed frontconnected to a vortex coming from France and directed towards our northern regions, continuously powered by icy winds of arctic origin.
THURSDAY DISTURBED AND COLD
Let’s get ready for a Thursday 21 November highly unstableat times disturbed and with temperatures in free fall.
In the North the cold will make its appearance with snowfall which locally may affect some sections of plains, especially on Piedmontclear sign of incoming arctic air. Some rainfall will affect the rest of the North in an irregular manner, while in the Centre-South the rainfall will intensify on the Tyrrhenian side. Come on Apennines the neveat times even copious, will drop to variable altitudes, making the day particularly rigid and disturbed.
Furthermore, it is worth mentioning i strong winds, sometimes stormy which will particularly affect the Tyrrhenian regions where they are also expected to be significant storm surges.
Thus we arrive at the eve of the weekend: On Friday 22 November the bad weather will gradually move towards the Centre-South. In the Northeast, after timid and residual disturbances in the early morning, the weather will tend to improve, however leaving room for intense night frosts across the entire western Po Valley in the hours close to dawn. In the central and southern regions, rainfall will continue to be abundant, in particular on the Tyrrhenian side and on the Apennines where the neve it may also fall abundantly at altitudes between 1300 and 2000 meters.
As for temperatures, after an initial drop on Wednesday 20th, starting from Thursday 21 November the cold will take overwith a clear and general decline throughout the country.
Also the weekendfinally, it will pass under the sign of a practically wintry thermal context despite clear signs of a general improvement especially on Saturday.
FOR MORE INFORMATION: Weekend, Weather Forecast: High Pressure returns between Saturday and Sunday, but it will be cold
THE POINT OF METEOROLOGIST LORENZO TEDICI
He spoke on the topic Lorenzo Tedicimeteorologist from iLMeteoto whom we asked i details about the next few days.The descent of a huge arctic air mass from Scandinavia towards the Alps is confirmed; in the last few hours this mass of distant Finnish origin has brought snow and cold as far as France, Germany and the Alpine regions, between Thursday and Friday it will also affect our country.
What are the most important weather situations?
From Thursday we will have a drop in temperatures of up to 10-12°C: between Friday and Saturday the minimums will drop to -5°C in the Po Valley and up to -1°C also on some central plains. In the South we will go from the current maximums of 22-24°C to values around 13-16°C.
Will the wind continue to blow?
Unfortunately yes, the cold will be preceded by gale-force winds, up to storms: in the next few hours all of Italy will be violently hit by Aeolus, the king of the winds according to Greek mythology.
The Libeccio will hit the Tyrrhenian coast before rotating from the north-west (Mistral) in the afternoon. From the morning onwards the Mistral will be the protagonist in Sardinia and also in the north we will have strong winds: in the Po Valley it will be the famous Foehn wind, or Favonio in Italian, the mild and dry wind that warms and cleans the air and also makes the clear sky. Smog away, this is great news.
Are we at risk of historic storms?
The situation is very disturbed: between Libeccio, Maestrale and Foehn, all of Italy will be windy, in the North until the evening, in the Center-South until Saturday morning. The storm surges will therefore, unfortunately, be widespread on all the western coasts with maximum waves of 7 meters in front of Tuscany, in these hours and, again, on Friday morning: most of the western basins will record waves over 4 meters with peaks of 5, from the Sea of Sardinia to the entire Tyrrhenian Sea; the other seas will be less rough, but still very rough.
Wind, storms… even heavy rain?
Yes. In addition to the wind, heavy rain will also arrive: heavy showers are expected at times, driven by the wind, towards the Tyrrhenian areas and Sardinia, elsewhere the weather will be dry except for heavy snowfalls in the border Alps and the Aosta Valley. These phenomena will be present on and off until Friday, then the sky will stop ‘crying’: during the weekend the weather will be dry.
Nothing is missing from this arctic storm…
‘Last but not the least’, as the English say, ‘last but not least’ is the snow forecast; in the next few hours it will snow again heavily in the border Alps, especially in Valle d’Aosta and Piedmont, then November 21st could be remembered as a white Christmas a month early: a lot of snow is expected in the western Alps, flakes in Turin, flakes mixed with rain in Milan, flakes up to the high plains of Veneto in the evening, in short a ‘white pass’ worthy of the winter month par excellence, January. We are a couple of months early, but we will have very useful snowfalls to prepare the ski slopes for the next 2024-2025 season.
