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Storms and temperatures up to 35C expected across Italy this weekend

Italian weather forecasters are predicting the first real summer heat across the country this weekend, with high humidity and temperatures set to reach the mid-30s in some areas.

Published: 10 June 2021 11:07 CEST
Updated: 10 June 2021 17:33 CEST
Storms and temperatures up to 35C expected across Italy this weekend
Photo: Miguel Medina/AFP

In the first hot weekend of the summer, temperatures will soar in the coming days days will be between 30-35C across most of the country, with the centre-north seeing the hottest weather according to Ilmeteo.it.

On Saturday and Sunday “the mercury will rise to 32/33C in many parts of the centre-north, with peaks as high as 34/35C in Bologna and Florence,” Il Meteo writes.

Other areas, including the cities of Rome and Milan are expected to have daytime temperatures of around 30C.

“Only in the south will we have slightly lower numbers,” the forecast reads, due to colder currents moving down from the Baltic sea.

Things will likely feel sticky even in areas where the temperatures don’t exceed 30C, forecasts say, due to the arrival of the so-called ‘Afa’, or hot-humid air.

Weather forecasts warn that high humidity will be felt at night as well in many areas.

However, along with a rise in temperature, localised rain showers and some storms are also forecast in south and central areas, particularly over the Apennines and along the coasts.

The heat is forecast to continue into the middle of next week.

Italian vocabulary:

Temporali – storms
Maltempo – bad weather
Caldo intenso – intense heat
Aria fresca – cool air
Perturbazione – disturbance
Afa – Intense, sultry heat due to high humidity

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Denmark records deepest snow level for 13 years

Blizzards in Denmark this week have resulted in the greatest depth of snow measured in the country for 13 years.

Published: 4 January 2024 14:18 CET
Denmark records deepest snow level for 13 years

A half-metre of snow, measured at Hald near East Jutland town Randers, is the deepest to have occurred in Denmark since January 2011, national meteorological agency DMI said.

The measurement was taken by the weather agency at 8am on Thursday.

Around 20-30 centimetres of snow was on the ground across most of northern and eastern Jutland by Thursday, as blizzards peaked resulting in significant disruptions to traffic and transport.

A much greater volume of snow fell in 2011, however, when over 100 centimetres fell on Baltic Sea island Bornholm during a post-Christmas blizzard, which saw as much as 135 centimetres on Bornholm at the end of December 2010.

READ ALSO: Denmark’s January storms could be fourth extreme weather event in three months

With snowfall at its heaviest for over a decade, Wednesday saw a new rainfall record. The 59 millimetres which fell at Svendborg on the island of Funen was the most for a January day in Denmark since 1886. Some 9 weather stations across Funen and Bornholm measured over 50cm of rain.

DMI said that the severe weather now looks to have peaked.

“We do not expect any more weather records to be set in the next 24 hours. But we are looking at some very cold upcoming days,” DMI meteorologist and press spokesperson Herdis Damberg told news wire Ritzau.

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