Hot weekend, peaks of 40 degrees expected: that’s where

More and more hot days await us, waiting for a weekend that promises to be really hot. The team of the site www.iLMeteo.it announces that in the next few days a majestic African anticyclone will gradually strengthen, which will embrace almost the entire Mediterranean basin: an intense heat wave will begin, with the North African currents coming directly from the Desert of the Sahara that will fully invest our country. Between Saturday 19 and Sunday 20 June, the values ​​reached in the same period of the “terrifying” 2003 could also be exceeded, as the mercury column could touch values ​​around 40 ° C on the low plains of the North, between Modena, Bologna and Ferrara: just 18 years ago, in June, they touched 36 ° C in Bologna and Modena, while the values ​​expected today for Sunday speak of 39 ° C in Bologna and Ferrara and 38 in Modena. The inland areas of Tuscany and some corners of Sardinia and Sicily are also at risk (up to 41 ° C on the inland areas of the Major Islands). The team anticipates that between Sunday afternoon and evening, more unstable infiltrations from the Atlantic Ocean could destabilize the atmosphere, with the very high risk of even violent storms starting from the Northwest. IN DETAIL Thursday 17th. In the north: sun and heat, but afternoon thunderstorms over the Alps, Turin and Cuneo, at night over the Veneto. Center: afternoon thunderstorms in Umbria and the Apennines. In the south: sun everywhere. Friday 18. In the north: many clouds in the north with thunderstorms in the early morning, sun elsewhere. In the center: sometimes unstable in the Adriatic regions, more sun elsewhere. In the south: good weather prevailing. Saturday 19. In the north: sun and sultry heat. In the center: sun and heat. South: sunny and warm. Sunday peak of heat over all regions and intense heat.