Forecasters on Saturday warned of severe bad weather across parts of Italy this weekend, with the most intense storms expected in the northwest, including parts of the Upper Tyrrhenian coast. Conditions will improve in the Adriatic regions and the South, where sunnier skies are forecast.
Mattia Gussoni, meteorologist at iLMeteo.it, detailed the forecast, noting heavy rain in Upper Tuscany, Liguria, Piedmont, and parts of Emilia, Lombardy, and Friuli on Saturday morning. By afternoon, intense rain will focus on Liguria (moving west), Piedmont, and Valle d’Aosta, where rainfall could reach 150 litres per square metre. Meanwhile, the rest of central Italy will see an improvement, and southern regions will experience mostly clear skies with some cloud cover from North Africa.
“This period typically brings the most severe weather to Italy,” explained Gussoni, “but this year’s intense weather has arrived early, without any cold fronts from polar regions.” Warm seas and waterlogged land create conditions ripe for sudden river flooding due to continuous cloudbursts.
Rain will continue in the same areas on Sunday, with intense downpours in western and northern Piedmont, Valle d’Aosta, and western Liguria. Sardinia will also see some storms. The worst of the weather is expected on Sunday morning, with gradual improvement as the storm front moves towards France, Spain, and Morocco from the afternoon onward.
Next week, an anticyclonic pattern is expected, bringing dry, sunny weather across Italy. However, this autumnal high-pressure system will likely cause thick fog in the Po Valley.
Last week, Emilia-Romagna suffered severe flooding due to heavy rainfall.
Detailed Forecast
Saturday 26th: Severe weather in the Northwest; last storms in Upper Tuscany; sunny in the South.
Sunday 27th: Continued bad weather in the Northwest; clouds in Tuscany, rain in Sardinia; sunny in the South.
Monday 28th: Stable, clear weather across Italy.
Outlook: High pressure will persist until 1st November.
