Hi, I write from North-western Italy, to be precise from Carmagnola, a medium-sized town in the region of Piedmont (the 2nd most extended region of Italy, behind Sicily).
The climate is continental, with relatively cold winters, and warm to very warm summers. Spring and Autumn tend to be mild and rainy.
For Carmagnola, of course the coldest month of the year is January, while the hottest is July. About rainfall, things get more interesting. The rainiest seasons are Spring and Autumn, with Spring just being slightly above Autumn (but is not rare having the Autumn rainier than the Spring). The driest season is Winter, just followed by Summer, where you can find a second minimum rainfall. With months, the rainiest month of the year is May, followed by April and October. The driest months are the Winter months (Dec, Jan, Feb) and July.
Despite not being really cold through the year, in my town snow is not absolutely unknown. From the winter 1990/91 to winter 2019/20 the average fall snow per season is about 28 cm, but in the past it was even higher (from 30 to 40 cm in the second part of the 20th century). The snowiest season of the last 30 years is winter 2009/10 (what a coincidence! Despite being more than 1000 km far from UK, also here it was a snowy season!) with 94 cm, while winter 2006/07 is the only season to have had 0 cm.