The great cold has returned to Italy. Nothing unusual, we are still in winter, even if the relatively mild temperatures of the last few days had given us a first taste of spring. and instead all of Northern Italy, especially the North-West, is covered in snow again: as we write it has snowed almost only at high altitudes, but already in the evening abundant snowfalls are expected even in the lowlands and in big cities. Important thermal drop, with snow in the Apennines but only rain at low altitudes, also in the Center-South, where the perturbation will persist above all on Saturday 13 February.
In the meantime, the sun will already have returned to the North: the bad weather will not persist much, but will bring a sensational drop in temperature, with minimum temperatures well below zero in many capitals and just above zero the maximum. The lowest minimums will be in Trento and Bolzano with -5 and -7 (but the thermometer will drop to that level also in the Apennine capitals, such as Potenza and L'Aquila), Milan and Turin -3 (and +1 the maximum), Bologna -5 minimum, 0 degrees during the night in Rome and Naples. On Sunday the sun will return to almost the whole country, except for some rain and some snow still in the South, in particular on the Tavoliere delle Puglie and on Etna, but it will be even colder.
In fact, on Valentine's Day the mercury column will fall well below zero: Bolzano even -13, but -3 also for Rome and Naples. The climate will remain relatively mild, or in any case non-glacial, only on the islands: in Palermo and Cagliari the maximum will still rise to 15 degrees on Saturday, and then drop to around 10 on Sunday. Still very cold even on Monday: sun everywhere but Bolzano will touch the minimum to -14 degrees.
