Hot at the highest in August, but the decline from Monday

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August 14, 2021 August 15th will be the hottest weekend of the summer.

The confirmation comes from the update of the heat wave bulletin of the

according to which both today, Saturday 14 August, and Sunday the cities in which the "level 3" alert will be triggered, ie the highest "red dot" ", there will be sixteen: Ancona, Bari, Bologna, Bolzano, Brescia, Campobasso, Florence, Frosinone, Latina, Naples, Palermo, Perugia, Rieti, Rome, Trieste and Viterbo. 

The more moderate "level 2" ("orange") alert will concern four cities: Milan, Turin, Venice and Verona. Temperatures are still very high, those perceived will touch peaks of 39 degrees in Florence and Frosinone and 38 in Bologna, Latina, Milan, Naples, Perugia, Verona and Viterbo; Sunday peaks of 39 in Latina and Naples and 38 in Bologna, Florence, Frosinone, Milan, Perugia, Rome and Verona. 

And the fires also continue. Most of the Sos arrived from Calabria and Campania, while the damage is still counted in Sardinia.

According to the team of experts of the site

 in addition to Saturday 14, the Sunday of August will also be hot, sunny and even sultry. Only some cooling thunderstorms could affect the central-eastern Alps, especially close to the borders.

The heat will be felt almost everywhere; 37-39 degrees are expected in Florence, Rome, Bologna, Pavia, Mantua, Verona, Rovigo, Macerata, Caserta, Taranto and many other cities.

But already on

the situation will change. The cooler Northern European flow will begin to drop in latitude slowly crumbling the African anticyclonic dome. The first thunderstorms will soon hit a large part of the Alps, therefore of the Pre-Alps and locally also the high plains of Lombardy and Veneto. You will feel a first thermal drop.

Sun, hot and muggy weather is expected in the north for Sunday 15. Some thunderstorms on the central-eastern Alpine borders. Sunny and very warm in the center. In the south, sunny and warm. From Monday 16 th in the north, thunderstorms in the Triveneto Alps, in the late evening also in the plains, in the center sunny, less hot and in the south good weather and warm. From Tuesday thunderstorms on the Adriatic belt. Thermal drop in the Center-North. 

From

patchy and rather intense thunderstorms will hit the Northeast and the Marches, following them the Mistral wind will drop temperatures by even 10-12 degrees compared to these days, especially in the Center-North.

A more global refreshment from the heat will start on

when even in the South the maximum thermal values ​​will rise only a few degrees above 30, decreased thanks to the blowing of the Mistral.