From storms to the African heat, what will the weather be like in Italy

Between Monday 26 and Tuesday 27 July violent thunderstorms will still affect the northern regions, then it will be increasingly hot throughout the country, with extreme peaks in the southern regions. The team of the site www.ilmeteo.it announces that the week just started will be quite eventful: over the next 24 hours a storm front will pass over Italy, making its effects felt mainly on the northern regions and on part of the central ones: observed special will be the alpine, pre-alpine and plain areas of Piedmont, Lombardy, Emilia and most of the Triveneto. On these areas, gusts of wind and hail are not excluded; some leopard spot phenomenon may also affect the Ligurian hinterland. Subsequently, the African anticyclone will spread over the whole of Italy again, guaranteeing a more stable, sunny and very hot weather phase: from Thursday 29 until the whole weekend a heavy heat wave will cause the mercury columns to rise throughout Italy. up to probably touching new records of heat on many corners of the South with thermal peaks even over 44/45 ° C. In detail Monday 26: in the North, unstable weather conditions with scattered locally thunderstorms. In the center, thunderstorms on the inland areas of Tuscany, sunnier elsewhere. South: lots of sunshine and warmer weather. Tuesday 27: patchy thunderstorms in all regions in the North. In the Center: more unstable weather over Tuscany, with isolated storms in inland areas. In the South, the largely stable weather phase continues. Wednesday 28: in the North, thunderstorms alternating with bright spells over the Alps. In the center: all sun. In the south, ample sunshine.