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Autumn begins in Italy with ‘fresh’ weather

Autumn has officially begun and is forecast to bring with it cooler temperatures across most parts of Italy - at least, for now.

Published: 23 September 2023 16:32 CEST
Autumn begins in Italy with 'fresh' weather
Rain pours over the Roman Forum. Wet and cool weather is expected as autumn begins in Italy. (Photo by Vincenzo PINTO / AFP)

Intense heat has been the theme of Italy this summer, with multiple heatwaves and resulting climate events, including wildfires and floods.

As Saturday marked the autumnal equinox, officially ending summer, Italy is due some reprieve. Cool air and “fresh winds” are projected to put an end to the scorching temperatures, according to Italian weather website Meteo.it.

Rain and thunderstorms are expected on Sunday in the central and southern regions, causing a “further drop in temperatures”.

Fine weather is expected for most of northern Italy on Sunday, the north of Tuscany and Sardinia. Clouds elsewhere, with showers and thunderstorms across Le Marche, Abruzzo, Molise, lower Lazio and all the southern regions.

“Anomalous” heat is expected only in the most southern parts of the peninsula. 

A continued cold front is predicted to cause thunderstorms across central and southern regions on Monday, while the north is expected to be fine.

Cloudy conditions with sunny spells are predicted for Sardinia. Isolated showers and thunderstorms are expected in Abruzzo, Molise, Puglia, Basilicata, Calabria and Sicily.

The beginning of the week will also be characterised by temperatures “generally close to normal”, while midweek could see mercury levels rise once again and a return to “unusually warm weather” for the period.

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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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