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Italy set for ‘autumn-like’ weekend as bad weather continues

People in Italy are still waiting for summer as most regions expect to see rain and below-average temperatures over the coming days.

Published: 11 May 2023 16:11 CEST
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A new cold air front is expected to bring heavy rain and chilly temperatures to many areas of the country over the coming weekend. Photo by Marco BERTORELLO / AFP

Anyone hoping to spend the coming weekend in the warm, late-spring sunlight may well be disappointed as most regions are forecast to experience more bad weather in the next few days.

After a spell of torrential rain at the beginning of May resulted in deadly flooding in the Emilia-Romagna region, many areas of the country are experiencing wet and unseasonably cool conditions again this week.

Italy’s Department for Civil Protection issued a red weather alert (the highest one available) for southern Emilia-Romagna on Thursday, with new alerts likely to be issued in the coming days.

According to the latest reports, a new cold air front from northern Europe will reach Italy on Friday morning, bringing rain and autumn-like temperatures of between 12 and 18 degrees to most northern and central regions. 

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Conditions are currently expected to be particularly intense in the north west of the country (Lombardy, Piedmont, Liguria) and in Tyrrhenian-facing areas, whilst southern regions and the islands, Sicily and Sardinia, should enjoy relatively good weather on the day.

On Saturday, stormy weather and below-average temperatures are expected to persist in the north and centre, with Emilia-Romagna and Marche currently forecast to bear the brunt of the bad weather.

Southern regions are expected to see some rain in the afternoon, though rainfall should be of medium to low intensity in all instances and temperatures should remain around the 20-degree mark. 

Weather will largely improve in the south on Sunday, while it’ll be an unpleasantly wet and cold Festa della Mamma for most people in the north and centre as a new round of cold air currents is set to follow the previous front.

According to the latest reports, Veneto, Friuli Venezia Giulia and northern Emilia-Romagna will be the worst-affected areas, with heavy rain and even some localised hail storms likely during the day. 

At the time of writing, bad weather is expected to spill over into the start of next week, with rain and low temperatures potentially lingering on in some areas of the peninsula until Thursday.

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Mystery sonic boom rattles Italy’s Elba island

An unidentified sonic boom heard on the Italian island of Elba and in Corsica on Thursday may have been a meteorite, experts have said.

Published: 21 June 2024 09:24 CEST
Mystery sonic boom rattles Italy’s Elba island

The town of Campo nell’Elba, on the Italian tourist island of Elba, 10 kilometres off Tuscany’s coast, said on its Facebook page that a nearby tracking station had “captured a seismic, acoustic event felt by everyone” at 4:30pm.

Corsican media reports said it was also felt on the island.

Tuscany’s president Eugenio Giani initially said it was an earthquake, before backtracking after Italy’s National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV) ruled it out.

The Italian Air Force told Giani it had nothing to do with the sonic boom.

“The type of event which caused the tremor, felt by many as an earthquake over the entire coast of Tuscany and in some inland areas, is currently unconfirmed,” Giani wrote on social media.

The region’s Geophysics Institute and the University of Florence said in a joint statement that whatever caused the boom was travelling at 400 miles per second.

“A meteorite entering the atmosphere seems the most likely and in line with the data registered”.

The Corriere della Sera daily quoted an unnamed person from Italy’s civil protection agency saying “the impact would have been registered by seismographs. The most likely hypothesis is still an airplane”.

It is not the first time mysterious sonic booms have been registered on Elba, the Corriere della Sera said. Similar events in 2012, 2016 and 2023 have yet to be explained, it said.

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