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Weekend storms to bring Italy’s summer heatwave to an end

Italy has sweltered in intense summer heat through much of August, but temperatures are forecast to drop sharply across the country this weekend with storms on the way.

Published: 26 August 2020 12:00 CEST
Updated: 27 August 2020 10:12 CEST
Weekend storms to bring Italy's summer heatwave to an end
A wave of bad weather is set to sweep Italy from north to south from the end of this week. File photo: AFP
Heavy rain and violent thunderstorms will break the steamy summer heat in northern Italy this weekend, forecasters said.
 
“On Friday, the first showers and thunderstorms are expected in northern Italy, in particular in the Alps and north west,” said Edoardo Ferrara, meteorologist at 3bmeteo.com. 
 
Thundery showers will spread to the rest of the north and down to Tuscany by Sunday, he said, and temperatures will fall by an average 10 degrees.

Southern Italy will feel the same effect by Monday or Tuesday, according to weather reports.

“The disturbance between Monday and Tuesday will bring some thunderstorms to the central-southern regions and a temperature drop, with the end of intense heat almost everywhere except in some sectors of the extreme south,” writes ilmeteo.it

Temperatures in most southern and central parts of Italy are set to reach the mid-30s by Saturday and Sunday, before dropping to the high 20s by Tuesday.

Forecasters also warned that high winds across many coastal areas are possible early next week.

The sudden change is set to end a long and sticky August, during which temperatures have regularly been in the high 30s across the country.

Into next week, “a rise in pressure will guarantee generally beautiful and stable weather, with rising temperatures, but without the intense heat,” according to ilmeteo.it.

Italian vocabulary:

Forti temporali – severe storms
Maltempo – bad weather
Caldo intenso – intense heat
Perturbazione – disturbance
Afa – Intense, sultry heat due to high humidity

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WEATHER

Norway to get a taste of summer with 20C days this week

Summer is finally here! Or least it is if you live in southern Norway, where a warm front coming up from Europe will bring t-shirt temperatures of 20C by Thursday, according to forecasts.

Published: 30 April 2024 08:42 CEST
Norway to get a taste of summer with 20C days this week

Warm air from southern Europe will combine with a high pressure zone which will bring clear skies and sunshine, with summery weather coming towards the end of the week, Norway’s national weather forecaster Yr has reported. 

“Thursday and Friday especially will be nice,” Ingrid Villa, a meteorologist at the Norwegian Meteorological Institute, told the public broadcaster NRK. “Then we will probably get temperatures of over 20 degrees Celsius in some places.” 

Patches of 20C warmth are expected both in western Norway around Bergen and in Western Norway around Oslo, with the area around Tromsø expected to have slightly cooler weather, although Villa said that “it will absolutely be something like summer there too”. 

The warm sunny weather is, however, expected to pass northern Norway by, with grey overcast skies expected for much of this week. 

But if you think summer has come to Norway to stay, you risk disappointment as much cooler temperatures are expected next week.  

“There’s nothing unusual in getting an early taste of summer in April and the start of May, and then we can quickly go back to cooler more spring-like weather,” Villa said. 

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