where it will hit and what will be the key days –

It will be a weekend marked by stability and good weather. Then, however, everything could change. Already from Monday 26 August “the transit of an Atlantic disturbance over Europe will bring thunderstorms (although interspersed with large clearings) to a good part of the northern regions”, we read in the latest weather bulletin from ilmeteo.it. The experts explain that the areas most at risk “will be the Alpine and pre-Alpine areas, where we do not even rule out some local hailstorms”. In the rest of the Italian peninsula, however, the African anticyclone will dominate the scene “with lots of sun and temperatures around 35°C in the Centre-South and on the two Major Islands”.

However, on Tuesday 27 and Wednesday 28 August, “a particular atmospheric figure could significantly destabilize the scorching Mediterranean basin”, the meteorologists’ team anticipates. What should we expect? The “cold drop (or cut-off in technical terms)” will arrive. “At high latitudes, fresh and unstable currents flow that are very different from those that pass at lower latitudes (warmer and more stable) and the heat exchanges between Northern and Southern Europe in particular conditions can evolve, precisely, into a cut-off, or a block of cold air at high altitude that breaks away from a larger Atlantic cyclone (cut-off, literally “cut off” in Italian)”, we read on the website. Be careful in the South, “in Sicily and on the Apennines where violent storms could break out, with a high risk of hailstorms and localized cloudbursts”, they add.