
Gradual worsening of the weather with intense rainfall and strong Sirocco winds
AI-generated summary
A meteorological disturbance crosses the Italian peninsula bringing widespread rainfall and strong winds.
Today will be marked by a gradual and intense worsening of the weather with progressively more consistent and heavy rainfall, locally in the form of thunderstorms, initially over Piedmont and Liguria, then over Lombardy, Tuscany, Lazio and Sardinia. By the evening it will also worsen in the Northeast, especially on nearby hills and plains.
Unstable in Sicily. Strong Sirocco winds, very rough seas.
For tomorrow, however, according to iLMeteo.it a disturbance will be in transit over Italy with widespread rainfall over most of the regions. The rainfall will be more significant in the Alpine and pre-Alpine sectors of the North, in the central Tyrrhenian regions and in the peninsular South. Strong winds from the south and west, rough or very rough seas, even rough Ligurian and Adriatic seas. Temperatures will not undergo substantial variations.
AI outlook — possibilities, not facts
Transit of a disturbance with widespread rainfall over most regions.
Very likely · Within days

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