Peninsular Italy and southern Balkans

[Josh Romano]

Finally a bit of cold has arrived in peninsular Italy, after an exceptionally hot first half of winter. In Rome Ciampino yesterday the maximum temperature was 7°.

[Josh Romano]

Hello! It's finally cold in mainland Italy these days, with snow in the Apennines I also report two episodes of snow in Constantine, in the Algerian hills.

[Josh Romano]

January 2023 was generally milder than average for the Italian peninsula, due to the extremely warm first half of the month. There was some cold in the third decade, especially in the eastern regions.

[Jo Farrow]

Medicane in northern Adriatic

WWW.EUMETSAT.INT

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First medicane of the 2023 season formed on 21 January over the Adriatic.

"Due to the favourable conditions, a disturbance started strengthening and transitioned into a tropical-cyclone-type of whirl , known in the Mediterranean as a medicane ((MEDIterranean hurriCANE)"

[Josh Romano]

The cold finally arrives in mainland Italy, it will be the main cold wave since January 2019

[Josh Romano]

These are very cold days in mainland Italy... Monday, February 6, 2023, it snowed on the beach of Crotone (Calabria Iónica), it had not happened since January 2017

[Josh Romano]

After the end of the cold wave, mainland Italy and the southern Balkans are now experiencing an anticyclonic phase

[Josh Romano]

This is a mild winter in Italy but while the first part was exceptionally warm, it has been colder since January 15, especially in the Adriatic regions.

[Josh Romano]

The last days of February will be very mild in Italy with over 20 C in the south, including Naples.

[Josh Romano]

The winter of 2022/23 will probably be among the 4/5 warmest on the Italian peninsula, especially due to December

[Josh Romano]

March starts quite cold and rainy in mainland Italy... Later we will see the final data for winter 2022/23 but it should have been the warmest fourth, according to the first data.

[Josh Romano]

This very rainy phase continues in peninsular Italy, with lots of snow in the mountains. In recent days it has also snowed heavily in the Algerian Atlas and yesterday in the mountains of Bosnia. From Tuesday a rise in temperatures is expected in peninsular Italy, due to the sirocco winds.

[Josh Romano]

The spring heat has arrived in peninsular Italy in the last few days ... 22 degrees in Pescara and Rimini, 23 in Bari

[ANYWEATHER]

12 hours ago, Josh Romano said:

The spring heat has arrived in peninsular Italy in the last few days ... 22 degrees in Pescara and Rimini, 23 in Bari

As normal...

[Josh Romano]

After a couple of cold days (mostly in the southern Balkans), next week there will be a clear increase in temperatures, especially in southern Italy and Sicily, with temperatures widely above 22/23 C

[Josh Romano]

It's a very variable March so far, initially cold, then rather hot but in the end the cold could return in the southern Balkans and most likely also in a part of Italy

[Josh Romano]

It was a warm but not excessively hot March in peninsular Italy, on the contrary it had cool moments and it was relatively cold in the southern Balkans

[Josh Romano]

Holy Week will be relatively cold in Italy, especially on the Adriatic regions.. the opposite of last year

[Josh Romano]

It is very cold at the beginning of this April in Italy, with snow also in the cities of the high hills of the south

[Josh Romano]

It is a cold Easter in mainland Italy but it is not so unusual, in a strongly peninsular climate like the Italian one, which has "late" seasons and depends a lot on what is happening in the southern Balkans. Yesterday the snow level in Campania dropped to 600 meters, as at Easter 1995, 2001 and 2008. Happy Easter to all of you and your families!

[Josh Romano]

Yesterday the cold phase ended in mainland Italy and from today the temperatures will rise again, widely exceeding 20 C already on Thursday 13

[Summer8906]

On 09/04/2023 at 10:38, Josh Romano said:

It is a cold Easter in mainland Italy but it is not so unusual, in a strongly peninsular climate like the Italian one, which has "late" seasons and depends a lot on what is happening in the southern Balkans. Yesterday the snow level in Campania dropped to 600 meters, as at Easter 1995, 2001 and 2008. Happy Easter to all of you and your families!

I actually spent the week after Easter in Italy on a school trip during 1985, and the weather was similarly changeable. (This was in the Naples area).

Most days were fine with temps hovering around 20, but there were two decidedly cool, wet days (Fri 12th and Mon 15th), the former involving an aborted attempt to reach the summit of Vesuvius from the road (which we did manage the following Sunday, I think) and the latter involving a trip to Capri in weather almost identical to what we are experiencing here in the UK today.

I recall an electronic temperature display of just 12C on Friday 12th.

Spring seems to be a much more "equal" season weatherwise across Europe, in the sense that most parts of the continent can be warm and dry, or cold and wet. This is in contrast to winter, summer and autumn, in which northwestern Europe, including the UK, typically gets much worse weather than the rest of the continent. The relative lack of Atlantic activity and tendency for continental lows to form could doubtless explain this.

Edited April 10, 2023 by Summer8906

[Summer8906]

4 hours ago, Josh Romano said:

Yesterday the cold phase ended in mainland Italy and from today the temperatures will rise again, widely exceeding 20 C already on Thursday 13

I spend quite a bit of time in Greece nowadays (which would probably qualify as southern Balkans, and is not so far from Italy) and it does seem to be the way that when it's unusually warm and sunny here, it's relatively cool and changeable there, and the converse. In particular, August 2022 was unusually thundery with rainfall well above average and temps somewhat below - though still, compared to the UK, sunny and warm!

So as the weather deteriorates (for a few days) in the UK it comes as no surprise to hear it's getting better in your part of the world!

Edited April 10, 2023 by Summer8906

[Josh Romano]

The violent heat wave that is expected for the next few days in Spain and Portugal will also affect Italy but in a more attenuated way. April 2023 is turning out to be cool in mainland Italy, it will probably be the coolest since 2001 or 1997, depending on the area and it is the first month cooler than the average of 81/10 since March 2022

[Josh Romano]

Few news in the next few days in peninsular Italy, temperatures will be slightly above average, especially in the Tyrrhenian regions but it will only be hot in Sardinia and there will be the possibility of abundant rainfall, especially in inland areas.