Weather. Weekend with thunderstorms, the anticyclone returns from Monday

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02 July 2021 After a long period of stable and very hot weather, the weather conditions are changing. 

In fact, Italy is currently affected by

which determine a heat that is finally more bearable also on the southern regions and on the islands and a somewhat unstable atmosphere on the north-eastern regions and on the central-northern Apennines. 

This flow includes the arrival of an Atlantic disturbance that will cross the northern regions over the weekend. In particular, on

, including the plains, with the risk of locally strong showers or thunderstorms. Here on Sunday the temperatures will also drop, again temporarily increasing in the mid Adriatic and in the South. Then

could be more marked and generalized in coincidence with a new swelling towards the central Mediterranean of the North African anticyclone. 

In the north, variable cloud coverings will be possible mainly on the central-eastern regions, with the possibility of short showers or local storms in the Polesine area, on Romagna and eastern Emilia; in the afternoon, isolated thunderstorms along the northeastern pre-Alpine belt and near the Tuscan-Emilian Apennines. On the islands and peninsular regions, the sky is mostly clear, except for passing fog and temporary thickening in the afternoon in inland areas and along the Apennines, with sporadic showers on the central and southern Apennines. 

The heat wave in the South is further attenuating; Sicily will still be the hottest region with peaks close to 35 degrees. Values ​​close to the norm in the central-northern regions. Generally weak winds. Mari: locally moved the central southern Tyrrhenian, the lower Adriatic and the Ionian offshore; the other basins are mostly calm or slightly moved. 

On the major islands, in Calabria and in the Ionian sector, the sky is generally clear for the whole day. On the remaining peninsular regions the weather is mostly sunny, with thickening developing in the afternoon along the ridge and some haze in transit in the Center and in Puglia; some rains on the reliefs of Campania and Basilicata are not excluded. In the north, the sky is irregularly cloudy, with wider and more lasting sunny spaces over eastern Emilia and the north-east. In the afternoon some showers or local thunderstorms on the Alpine areas of the Northwest, especially on Piedmont and Valle d'Aosta; in the evening showers or isolated thunderstorms on the Lombard Alps, Trentino and Alto Adige. 

Slightly rising temperatures in the Center-North and Sardinia, with no significant changes elsewhere. Warm climate everywhere, with values ​​generally between 28 and 33 degrees, but with peaks that will remain around 35 degrees on Sardinia and Sicily. Generally weak winds, except for a moderate Mistral on the lower Adriatic and the usual breezes in the valleys and along the coasts. Mari: the Canale d'Otranto moved; mostly calm or a little moved all the others.