(ANSA) – ROME, JUN 17 – Hot and muggy with temperatures well beyond the reference climatic averages and tropical nights, that is, in which temperatures of 26/28 ° C will be recorded until midnight. For the next few days, the news on the meteorological front is not good at all: the anticyclone Scipio will become more and more powerful and will considerably increase temperatures over almost all of Italy. After a very short slightly less hot parenthesis, expected for Saturday 18, already from Sunday 19 it will get hotter and hotter and the peak will be reached between the summer solstice (Tuesday 21), which risks becoming the hottest since 2003 (the most heat of Italian climatic history together with 2019) and Wednesday 22. The thermal values in this phase will touch peaks of 40 ° C in many cities of the Po Valley, such as Bologna, Ferrara, up to 37/38 ° C in Milan, Mantua, Pavia, Bolzano, 36 ° C in Rome, Terni, Florence.
It will also start to get very hot in the South, with values above 36 ° C in almost all cities. In short, many records could collapse and therefore mark a piece of our country’s climatic history. This is what Lorenzo Tedici, meteorologist of the site www.iLMeteo.it announces. according to which this third wave of African heat will make us experience even the annoying tropical nights.
This term has a very specific meaning: it is a climatic indicator that identifies the number of nights in the year with a minimum temperature greater than 20 ° C. In the next few days, thermal values of even 26/28 ° C up to midnight are expected in many cities in the Center-North.
In detail: – Friday 17th. In the north: sun and heat. Center: thunderstorms between Abruzzo, Lazio and Molise. In the south: afternoon thunderstorms over the Apennines.
– Saturday 18th. In the north: sunny, a little less hot. In the center: prevailing sun. In the south: some afternoon thunderstorms over Sicily and Calabria.
– Sunday 19th. In the north: all sun and rising heat. Center: largely sunny. In the south: irregular clouds only on the mountains. (HANDLE).
Source: Ansa
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