It ends today but this "North African" phase will soon begin again in the middle of September. All the heat from these 12 days of anomalous heat, explains Lorenzo Tedici, could trigger rain and strong thunderstorms . But soon the sun will return.

In short, we are getting used to an equatorial climate, to temperatures close to 40 degrees even in September. The cycle that has been repeating itself for some time is hot and sunny phases, stormy breaks (in some cases violent) and then suffocating heat again .

The thermometer is already expected to drop by a few degrees in these hours and showers are also expected in Sardinia . Watch out for storms in the North West of Italy and, on Saturday, also in Tuscany and Lazio.

From Sunday, however, a warm anticyclonic phase could return almost everywhere, with peaks of up to 39 degrees in Sardinia. The hottest city should be Oristano . In Sicily it could reach 36 degrees, 34-35 in Puglia and up to 33 in Umbria and Lazio.

(Unioneonline/L)