The next one will be an African (election) weekend in Italy: between Saturday 8th and Sunday 9th June there will be plenty of sunshine and a decidedly hot climate; beware, however, of the strong temporal of heat which could erupt especially during the afternoon hours in some regions.
The advance is therefore confirmed of the anticyclone African Scipione which will reach its maximum expansion over the next weekend. The website www.ilmeteo.it writes it.
Already from Saturday 8 June we will have dominance of the sun over most of the sectors: given the sub-tropical origin of the air masses we also expect a surge in temperatures, especially in the Centre-South and on the two major islands, but not Alone.
We will be in the presence of the first flare-up of the season throughout Italy with the thermometers ready to soar well above 30°C even in the North (especially in the eastern sectors). Only in the Alps will there be the risk of some quick showers, especially between the afternoon and evening in the valleys of Piedmont, Valle D’Aosta, Lombardy, Veneto and Trentino Alto Adige; we do not exclude that some storms could reach the surrounding plains.
Sunday 9 June the anticyclone it will further increase its strength in the Center-South and on the two Major Islands: we will in fact be in the key phase of this first serious African heat wave of the season. In particular, in Puglia, Calabria and Sicily maximum temperatures may reach over 36-37°C during the afternoon hours; these are really very high values even for these areas at this time of year, with deviations from the reference climate averages of around +7-8°C!
Be careful though, there won’t just be a lot of heat and sun in Italy. There is another aspect to take into consideration: the strong heat will increase the risk of the sudden outbreak of classic heat storms thanks also to a slight subsidence of the anticyclone in the North which will favor the entry of unstable currents, driven by a cyclone present between islands British and Scandinavian Peninsula. Their trigger is linked to the convective motions that characterize a very hot weather phase between the afternoon and the evening: that is, hot and humid air that rises and cools, condensing into majestic towering clouds. In practice, the strong daytime heating allows the rise of “hot air bubbles” (defined as thermal in technical terms) which, if they find the right conditions (cooler layers of the atmosphere at high altitude), manage to give life to those cumulus clouds which then generate the storm.
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