Weather, Italy split in two: storms in the north and sirocco in the south
2020-05-15T08:52:34.543Z
Extreme weather over Italy between storms in the north and record heat in the South. It was a night of storms and heavy storms in the North that between Thursday and Friday, the fault of a disturbance arriving from Spain that was fed by very hot air and humid with thunderstorms also of strong intensity with hail and gusts of wind in particular on Liguria, Piedmont, Lombardy, western Emilia and on the Triveneto. In Milan in one night 120-140mm of rain fell, well beyond the average rain expected throughout the month of May (95mm), with flooding of Lambro and Seveso, floods, blackouts and many inconveniences. Hailstorms and flooding also affected Piedmont in particular the Alexandrine, and the Piacentino, the Parma, the Mantovano, the Veronese and the Vicentino, with local rainfall peaks exceeding 40mm. "In the meantime the South has been affected by an intense African heat wave, so much so that for two consecutive days May's records have been beaten on different areas of Sicily", underlines the 3bmeteo.com meteorologist Edoardo Ferrara "At CNR headquarters in Palermo recorded 40.3 ° C: record in Palermo Boccadifalco with 38.9 ° C, record also in Palermo Punta Raisi with 39.4 ° C, and also in Ustica with 32.2 ° C. Points of over 35-36 ° C were also reached in Campania, Calabria, Basilicata and Puglia. Also noteworthy is the strong wind of Scirocco, with gusts of over 70-80km / h in particular on the Tyrrhenian Messina and the Bari area, with significant damage to crops and vineyards, up to 100km / h in The Apennines are also joined by fires, particularly between Sicily and Calabria, the most serious of which is the A20 Messina-Palermo with evacuations to Spadafora, in the Messina area ", adds Ferrara. The weekend will also see an Italy divided meteorologically into two: further scattered showers and thunderstorms are expected in the North, especially on Saturday, although they should not be as violent as those of last night. Occasional phenomena may also affect the Center where, however, more sunny conditions will prevail. In the South it will continue to be hot, with a new African wave especially between Sicily, Calabria, Basilicata and Salento.
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15 May 2020Extreme weather over Italy between storms in the north and record heat in the South. It was a night of storms and heavy thunderstorms in the North that between Thursday and Friday, the fault of a disturbance arriving from Spain that was powered by very air hot and humid with thunderstorms also of strong intensity with hail and gusts of wind especially on Liguria, Piedmont, Lombardy, western Emilia and on the Triveneto. In Milan in one night 120-140mm of rain fell, well beyond the average rain expected throughout the month of May (95mm), with flooding of Lambro and Seveso, floods, blackouts and many inconveniences. Hailstorms and flooding also affected Piedmont in particular the Alexandrine, and the Piacentino, the Parma, the Mantovano, the Veronese and the Vicentino, with local rainfall peaks exceeding 40mm. "In the meantime the South has been affected by an intense African heat wave, so much so that for two consecutive days May's records have been beaten on different areas of Sicily", underlines the 3bmeteo.com meteorologist Edoardo Ferrara "At CNR headquarters in Palermo recorded 40.3 ° C: record in Palermo Boccadifalco with 38.9 ° C, record also in Palermo Punta Raisi with 39.4 ° C, and also in Ustica with 32.2 ° C. Points of over 35-36 ° C were also reached in Campania, Calabria, Basilicata and Puglia. Also noteworthy is the strong wind of Scirocco, with gusts of over 70-80km / h in particular on the Tyrrhenian Messina and the Bari area, with significant damage to crops and vineyards, up to 100km / h in The Apennines are also joined by fires, particularly between Sicily and Calabria, the most serious of which is the A20 Messina-Palermo with evacuations to Spadafora, in the Messina area ", adds Ferrara. The weekend will also see an Italy divided meteorologically into two: further scattered showers and thunderstorms are expected in the North, especially on Saturday, although they should not be as violent as those of last night. Occasional phenomena may also affect the Center where, however, more sunny conditions will prevail. In the South it will continue to be hot, with a new African wave especially between Sicily, Calabria, Basilicata and Salento.
