Meteo Italia: fine weather until Thursday, then changes for the weekend

Italy is experiencing a period of stable and sunny weather, thanks to the presence of a high-pressure system dominating the peninsula. Today, Tuesday, October 27, the sky is mostly clear or partly cloudy across much of the country, with mild maximum temperatures for the season, ranging between 15 and 24 degrees Celsius. Only in the South are the northern winds moderate to strong, making the Adriatic and Ionian Seas choppy.

The situation is set to change starting this weekend. According to forecasts, after another day of fine weather on Thursday, October 29, rain and showers could return to the South, while a possible shift in weather looms over the Po Valley, with persistent morning fog. As early as tomorrow, Wednesday, October 28, clouds are expected in the North, along with snowfall in the eastern Alps above 2,000 meters.

The current period of fine weather began on Monday, October 26, when a large area of high pressure settled over Italy, interrupting a previous phase of bad weather. This anticyclone, a stable and subsiding air mass, pushed away disturbances, ensuring clear skies and unusually mild temperatures for late October, which in some areas were reminiscent of late summer.

However, the weather evolution is ongoing. The cyclonic circulation (low pressure) near Greece, responsible for the bad weather in recent days, has until now maintained locally unsettled conditions over the extreme southern Ionian regions. Now, while the high pressure consolidates until Friday, October 30, models predict a new change for the weekend. A pocket of cold air arriving from the Balkans could indeed trigger a strengthening of winds and a temperature drop in the Central-South, bringing back rains, while in the North, dense fog could form and the weather could become more unstable.