The mid-August flare has the hours numbered. Last week was the hottest week of the Italian summer, with scorching temperatures especially in the Centre-South and the famous "unofficial" European record recorded in the province of Syracuse, but immediately after mid-August the situation will change and it will do it drastically, even if initially not in the South. As often happens, we start from the North, which in itself was less affected by the African anticyclone Lucifer, and on which the first rains will arrive on Monday 16 August. The entire Alpine arc will initially be affected, then on Tuesday some precipitation will also reach some regions of the Center. But above all, the unbearable heat of the last few days will gradually be swept away: in truth, Lucifer will begin to give way already on the Sunday of August XNUMXth, even if the thermometer will continue to record values above the norm, but slightly down from the peaks.
On Monday in the North the maximum temperatures will drop by several degrees, even ten, returning to absolutely normal values for the period (we are in the height of summer): 31 degrees in Milan and Turin, 28 in Genoa, 29 in Venice and Trento and Bolzano, which usually have the highest values. There will still be 35 degrees in Bologna, Florence and Rome, and in Puglia Calabria and Sicily it will still touch 37 degrees. On Tuesday the refresh is consolidated in the North, with temperatures very often even below 30 degrees, and the shot in the arm will also arrive in the Center: 31 degrees are expected in Rome and also in Naples. On the other hand, the heat is still very sustained in the South, where even 40 degrees will return. For the south, the decisive days will be Wednesday and Thursday, when finally some storms will arrive there too. The good news, for those who can't stand the heat and don't have the possibility of going to the sea or to the mountains, is that the African summer, at least in the North, should never come back.
Even the forecasts for the end of August and the beginning of September give a average climate in the northern regions. In the Centre-South, temperatures should remain average until the end of August, only to then rise again strongly - in theory - at the beginning of September, with a possible new heat wave.
