Spring is waiting.
The first day of April offers the whole of Italy a prevalence of sun, spring warmth and some summer deception especially in the South with a reinforcement of the Mistral winds on Sardinia. Unfortunately, however, it will not last long .
A final winter blow will bring the thermometers back down by at least 10 degrees, below the average for the period. The www.iLMeteo.it website predicts a drastic deterioration in weather conditions as early as Palm Sunday, with a cyclone that will cross all of Italy.
In the South and in the Islands, bad weather is expected in particular from tomorrow evening, but rapidly intensifying. In the North until the early afternoon there will be mild temperatures up to 22-23°C with flashes of sunshine, in the Center the deterioration will gradually progress with widespread rains.
The new week will open with the deepening of a dangerous cyclone in the South ; in Sardinia and Sicily the rainfall will be frequent and even very heavy.
There could even be late frosts in Northern Italy, which are very dangerous for agriculture: on Tuesday 4 April, a few hours after Sunday's 22-23°C, -3/-4°C will be recorded in the Po Valley.
Holy Week will be mostly cold : the highs, after the 25°C this weekend, will settle at 15-17°C as they were at the beginning of March. Even Easter and Easter Monday, despite a slight improvement, will not be spared from below average temperatures.
(Unioneonline/D)
