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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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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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