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Weather: in mid-August Italy split in two between thunderstorms and a new African heat wave

In mid-August, Italy will be divided in two while a new peak of heat is expected from Tuesday 16th: here are the forecasts for the key weekend of the month of August

Weather: in mid-August Italy split in two between thunderstorms and a new African heat wave

The great heat that characterized the summer of 2022 let go, but for a short time. In recent days, our country has been reached by cooler winds driven by a cyclonic vortex located over Eastern Europe. But according to experts, after a Mid-August a bit uncertain in which Italy will be divided in half, from Tuesday 16 the great heat over Italy: yet another heat wave of African origin. If everything is confirmed, it will especially affect the central and southern regions, however, however, the temperatures in the north will also rise by several degrees.

Weather forecast weekend 13 and 14 August

It will be a busy weekend to say the least in terms of weather. Directly from Ukraine cooler and drier air will fall on Italy over the next few hours and will cause a new increase in instability. Let's see where.

The day of Saturday August 13 it will still open with possible thundershowers even if alternating with more sunny breaks. Good weather will prevail in the north, except in central-eastern Liguria. At risk will be the areas of the Adriatic and Ionian sides: Marche, Abruzzo, Lazio, Molise, Puglia, Campania, Basilicata, Calabria. While some variable cloudiness will persist on the Islands with some rain or thunderstorms from the morning in the north of Sardinia. Temperatures decreasing in the North to minimum values; peaks up on Sicily, down on Piedmont and the central-southern regions.

Sunday August 14st with the removal of the perturbation and the expansion of an anti-cyclonic promontory, the day will pass with more stable and sunny weather conditions over most of the country with heat increasing in central and northern Sardinia. In the North there is sun in all regions, in the Center the temperatures rise (between 30 and 35 degrees). While in the South, large sunny spaces but still with the possibility of some phenomena on the lower Tyrrhenian Sea and Puglia.

Weather: what will the weather be like in mid-August?

Finally a Ferragosto the arrival of a weak perturbation from France is even more probable, which will bring back clouds and some scattered showers or thunderstorms in the North-West, in the eastern Alps and in Tuscany where temperatures are falling again. While scattered clouds will be the protagonists of the day for the North-East regions. On the other hand, the weather will be sunny, apart from some haze in the Center and in Sardinia and with temperatures rising especially in the South and on the Islands. 

Ma from Tuesday 16 August the heat returns towards the Centre-South and the Islands, associated with a decisive intensification of the temperatures with again anomalous values.

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