when there is a risk of “supercell storms” –

Summer is almost over. At least for those who have already used up their vacation days. The heat, the great protagonist of the season, will be put on hold and the rain will return to wet some areas of our peninsula. This is what the team at ilmeteo.it. Tomorrow, Sunday, August 18, will be a “high risk day for cloudbursts, showers and hailstorms in many regions of the country,” experts wrote. The African anticyclone, which has made many hours difficult to bear, “will temporarily lose energy, leaving room for the arrival of a decidedly turbulent phase,” the site reads.

The worsening of weather conditions, meteorologists specified, “will start from the northern regions, and then quickly extend towards the Center”. Liguria, Tuscany and Veneto will have to pay particular attention to the imminent reversal. The bad weather will not spare the South either, which has been gripped by the heat for some time now. In the afternoon, “scattered thunderstorms will hit Campania, Basilicata, Calabria and Sicily, bringing with them the risk of heavy showers and possible hailstorms”, experts said.

Then the warning from the ilmeteo.it team: “It is important to underline the potential danger of these storm phenomena. The arrival of fresh air at high altitude, which will flow over a layer of humid and very hot air in the lower layers, will create ideal conditions for the development of significant thermal contrasts. These contrasts could trigger particularly violent phenomena, such as the fearsome supercell storms”. What are they? “Complex and organized storm structures”. The possible effects? Gusts of wind, hail and, in rare cases, tornadoes.