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  • Location: Yorkshire Wolds
  • Weather Preferences: Hot sun, storms & ‘Oh no can’t go into work - snowed in’ days
  • Location: Yorkshire Wolds

30C by Lake Garda today with a moderate breeze that was most welcome. As the breeze died down in the afternoon it made for a very hot place to walk around. Air conditioning in museums was the key to today! 

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  • Location: Yorkshire Wolds
  • Weather Preferences: Hot sun, storms & ‘Oh no can’t go into work - snowed in’ days
  • Location: Yorkshire Wolds

Clears skies for most of the day in Verona. Topped out at 33C today.  A gentle breeze came & went throughout the day that at least made it comfortable enough.

oh, & not walking about in it also helps ☺️

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  • Location: Caserta(ITALY)
  • Location: Caserta(ITALY)

In the next few days the heat will be more intense in northern Italy, while the Adriatic regions and southern Italy will have more moderate temperatures but then the situation will reverse.

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  • Location: Yorkshire Wolds
  • Weather Preferences: Hot sun, storms & ‘Oh no can’t go into work - snowed in’ days
  • Location: Yorkshire Wolds

Verona started off overcast & windy early morning but quickly turned to clear blue skies by 8am & the heat was building at 26C by 10am. I think it’s probably hit the 30C+ mark during the day but it was cooler on the coast. A nice breeze off the water in Venice kept it at a comfortable 27C. Still at 29C mid evening now back in Verona but feels stormy. Potential for thunderstorms apparently. Leaving tomorrow but looks like some of this heat may push up to UK this week. Here’s hoping ??. Ciao.

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  • Location: Caserta(ITALY)
  • Location: Caserta(ITALY)
14 hours ago, RebsAbbo said:

Verona started off overcast & windy early morning but quickly turned to clear blue skies by 8am & the heat was building at 26C by 10am. I think it’s probably hit the 30C+ mark during the day but it was cooler on the coast. A nice breeze off the water in Venice kept it at a comfortable 27C. Still at 29C mid evening now back in Verona but feels stormy. Potential for thunderstorms apparently. Leaving tomorrow but looks like some of this heat may push up to UK this week. Here’s hoping ??. Ciao.

Veneto is not peninsular Italy Peninsular Italy is different from continental Italy, they are two separate areas for the weather...

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  • Location: Yorkshire Wolds
  • Weather Preferences: Hot sun, storms & ‘Oh no can’t go into work - snowed in’ days
  • Location: Yorkshire Wolds
2 hours ago, Josh Romano said:

Veneto is not peninsular Italy Peninsular Italy is different from continental Italy, they are two separate areas for the weather...

Sorry, didn’t realise this thread was for peninsula Italy as the title is simply ‘Italy’. Regardless, it’s been a good week of weather ??

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  • Location: The North Kent countryside
  • Weather Preferences: Hot summers, snowy winters and thunderstorms!
  • Location: The North Kent countryside

What's the most reliable site to look up the weather for the next week? Heading to Lake Lugano/Como.

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  • Location: Caserta(ITALY)
  • Location: Caserta(ITALY)

The strong heat is the main protagonist of this month in peninsular Italy, where, as already happened in May, June will probably be among the top 3 or 4 hottest in the historical series.

13 hours ago, Lauren said:

What's the most reliable site to look up the weather for the next week? Heading to Lake Lugano/Como.

I have been using this site since 2010:
https://freemeteo.ch/tempo/lugano/7-giorni/list/?gid=2659836&language=italian&country=switzerland

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  • Location: Caserta(ITALY)
  • Location: Caserta(ITALY)
On 15/06/2022 at 13:30, RebsAbbo said:

Sorry, didn’t realise this thread was for peninsula Italy as the title is simply ‘Italy’. Regardless, it’s been a good week of weather ??

This topic actually talks about all of Italy but it is necessary to specify which area you want to deal with: the Alpine area and northern Italy belong to political Italy but not to peninsular Italy, which is lower in latitude. Sicily also often detaches itself a lot from peninsular Italy. I generally consider the area that goes from Cesena to Salerno.

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  • Location: The North Kent countryside
  • Weather Preferences: Hot summers, snowy winters and thunderstorms!
  • Location: The North Kent countryside
57 minutes ago, Josh Romano said:

The strong heat is the main protagonist of this month in peninsular Italy, where, as already happened in May, June will probably be among the top 3 or 4 hottest in the historical series.

I have been using this site since 2010:
https://freemeteo.ch/tempo/lugano/7-giorni/list/?gid=2659836&language=italian&country=switzerland

Inaccessible from the UK.

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  • Location: The North Kent countryside
  • Weather Preferences: Hot summers, snowy winters and thunderstorms!
  • Location: The North Kent countryside

I'm here now and although the heat isn't oppressive (although still very hot), I don't think I've ever sweated so much in my life. Hoping the storms due on Wednesday will lift some of the humidity.

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  • Location: Caserta(ITALY)
  • Location: Caserta(ITALY)

Starting tomorrow, a further worsening of the heat is expected in the regions of the Italian peninsula, with maximums above 37/38 C next week in cities such as Rome, Naples, Bari.

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  • Location: Beccles, Suffolk.
  • Weather Preferences: Thunder, snow, heat, sunshine...
  • Location: Beccles, Suffolk.

Things in northern Italy are going from bad to worse: 

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WWW.BBC.CO.UK

Farmers in the north fear for the future as the River Po runs dry in the worst drought in 70 years.

 

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  • Location: Guildford, Surrey
  • Weather Preferences: Hot, dry & sunny
  • Location: Guildford, Surrey

How is it that central & northern Italy can be as cold, if not colder, than e.g. London during winter?

Don't the Alps block cold air from the North? and doesn't the Mediterranean moderate temperatures? 

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  • Location: Italian / Swiss Alps (Lake Como / St Moritz)
  • Location: Italian / Swiss Alps (Lake Como / St Moritz)
On 21/11/2022 at 14:48, Stabilo19 said:

How is it that central & northern Italy can be as cold, if not colder, than e.g. London during winter?

Don't the Alps block cold air from the North? and doesn't the Mediterranean moderate temperatures? 

Loads of reasons.

Yes, the Alps do block the cold air from the North, but they also block some of the mild air from the West, and the Appenines block some of the mild air from the Med.

Compare Turin (January mean 1°C) to Genoa (January mean 9°C). They're only 2 hours apart, but the Appenine mountains prevent the mild Mediterranean air from reaching Turin.

In fact, Northern Italy is more or less the least windy region in Europe (see attached map), giving time for home-grown cold to develop.

Furthermore, the nearby mountains also block much of the clouds stuck over Europe in winter, meaning that nights are typically clear, allowing nighttime temperatures to drop further. At the same time, the Po Valley is prone to fogs that struggle to lift, thus depressing daytime highs.

In addition, even though 45°N is far south of the UK, it's far north by global standards. While you seldom get uppers much below –5°C, as they are blocked by the mountains, the latitude is still high enough to allow a shallow layer of cold air to develop in the windless air at the surface in spite of the mild uppers. As a result of the cold surface layer, the average January temperature in Turin is about the same as it is in the nearby mountains at an elevation of around 1700 metres.

In Turin (elev.  275 metres), the January average is 1°C – colder than almost anywhere in Scotland. Reference: https://it.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stazione_meteorologica_di_Torino_Centro

On Monte Malanotte (elev. 1750 metres), the January mean is almost the same at 0°C – incredibly mild for that altitude, and, globally, fairly mild for the latitude too. Reference: https://it.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stazione_meteorologica_di_Monte_Malanotte

Obviously, there will be mountain valleys much colder than that. You only need to look not too far away in my neck of the woods at St Moritz (1800 metres), whose average morning lows below –15°C make Moscow seem mild in comparison. In fact, Samedan, a few miles away, has an average low of –17°C, easily reaching –30°C every few years. But again, even that cold is locally-grown, since the upper air temperatures coming in from the Atlantic ocean aren't particularly cold at all – typically around 0°C at 850 hPa, and even rare blasts of continental cold can't penetrate the crest of the Alps unmodified.

So, lack of wind, lower humidity, clear skies, radiation fog and the (still) fairly high latitude all contribute to giving the climate a semi-continental flavour.

The windlessness, especially, gives the air several days' time to cool off during the long nights before it blows away, meaning homegrown shallow cold develops readily, making the climate far more continental than you would expect.

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  • Location: Italian / Swiss Alps (Lake Como / St Moritz)
  • Location: Italian / Swiss Alps (Lake Como / St Moritz)

Could contain: Outdoors, Nature, Winter, Ice Hockey Puck, Sport, Skating, Plant, Snow, Cityscape, Urban

First snow at low levels here in northern Italy. Video below.

And, case in point, temperature is a mild 0°C all the way from ~1750 metres down to as close to see level as you can get (around 300 metres).

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Video:

 

 

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  • Location: Caserta(ITALY)
  • Location: Caserta(ITALY)
On 21/11/2022 at 14:48, Stabilo19 said:

How is it that central & northern Italy can be as cold, if not colder, than e.g. London during winter?

Don't the Alps block cold air from the North? and doesn't the Mediterranean moderate temperatures? 

Unfortunately I follow the climate of northern Italy very marginally, apart from a quick look at the temperatures of Milan Linate...I mainly follow peninsular Italy, starting from Florence and Ancona going south and the Balkans...Sorry I don't know how to say moreover.

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  • Location: Coventry, 96m asl
  • Weather Preferences: Snow in winter, thunderstorms, warmth, sun any time!
  • Location: Coventry, 96m asl

Cool feature heading into Sardinia this afternoon, Look like a rope cloud as a cold front moves the warm and moist Mediterranean airmass away from there.

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  • Location: Caserta(ITALY)
  • Location: Caserta(ITALY)

Hello, dears ... Due to personal and work commitments, I will no longer be able to write on this forum, having to "cut" some social networks ... However, if someone wants to keep in touch privately with me on issues and news related to climate and meteorology, he can write me privately on WhatsApp number +393490670059

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  • Location: on a canal , probably near Northampton...
  • Weather Preferences: extremes n snow
  • Location: on a canal , probably near Northampton...

Thanks for your input over the last few years Josh, it has been good having your local area input, and useful at times as we spend quite a bit of time in Italy when we can. Your English has improved well too, feel free to come back if something eventful is happening.

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  • Location: Wiltshire
  • Weather Preferences: Freezing Fog, Clear blue skies and sunny (cold/warm), snow
  • Location: Wiltshire

I wonder if anyone would be able to help with finding out information about the current health of the Po river? 

It has been astonishingly hard to find out anything online. Any search terms connected with Po river levels  only return articles and graphs related to the drought and its low levels during last year and the beginning of this year. 

Does anyone have any graphs or information about how it has recovered, and/or the drough status of other parts of Europe? Apologies if this has been covered already in multiple parts of the site.

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