Italy divided: summer heat and risk of thunderstorms in the North, while high pressure returns to the South

This morning's sky could be deceiving. In much of Italy the weather appears calm, at times decidedly summery, and after the storms that passed through the Centre-South, a break seems to have arrived. In reality, today, Wednesday 19 August, is above all a day of transition: the disturbance is moving away from the southern regions, but a new unstable phase is preparing to enter from the North-West. [...]