The Halloween high is about to envelop Italy. After October 3, a new heat wave is underway which has rare precedents for the period throughout Western Europe. And that prepares for our country what we could define as a November.
From the meteorological point of view, the so-called Halloween anticyclone, which arrived in the last days of October, could break the record of 30 degrees that was recorded in the past in November, announce the experts of iLMeteo.it . In the mountains, the freezing point should be between 3,700 and 3,800 meters above sea level. The melting of the glaciers will continue in an increasingly dramatic way. For Wednesday, October 26, in the north, mists are expected over the plains and clear skies as the day continues. In the Center-South sun, good weather and late-season climate. On the weekend at the end of the month it will be possible, from a climatic point of view, to swim in the sea.
Bathers on San Giovanni Li Cuti beach, Catania seafront. Photo Ansa / Orietta Scardino. In Sicily, after a month of below average temperatures, summer weather returned from the end of October
Anticyclone like in June
Antonio Sanò, director and founder of iLMeteo.it announces that after the rains, still quite heavy, in the North, the anticyclone will begin to engulf our country with increasing tenacity. Apart from the return of the morning fog, locally dense, on the Po Valley, we will spend days as if we were in the middle of June. In all regions the sun will prevail, the sky will be clear or only locally a little cloudy, the temperatures will record truly exceptional values for the period.
Abnormal temperatures
The temperatures will be the protagonists. In the next few days, we will have truly exceptional temperature anomalies. Up to + 6 / + 8 degrees over almost all of Italy. This means that during the day it will easily reach 26-27 degrees from north to south. On the two main islands, Sicily and Sardinia, these values will exceed 30-32 ° C in inland areas. These anomalies are part of the larger picture of climate change, with temperatures steadily rising through the seasons.
Genoa Weather Forecast Center. Photo Ansa / Luca Zennaro
This is a trend that started a few decades ago (at first slowly) and has accelerated sharply in recent years. And there is no good news for November. The latest elaborations of the main meteorological models leave no doubt. It will be the turn of the Halloween anticyclone: a new and vast anticyclonic field that will continue to protect Italy.
Walk, the missing woman is still wanted
All this does not mean that, as is known, between September and October, various regions of Italy suffered very serious effects due to waves of bad weather. The Sicily Region has just declared a state of crisis and emergency lasting 6 months due to damage in many areas of the island after the torrential rains of the past few weeks. In the Marches, rescuers continue to search for Mrs. Brunella Chiù, 56, the last person missing from the September 15 flood. As you will remember, that evening and that night there were very heavy rains in the regions of Arcevia and Sassoferrato, the floods of the Nevola and Misa rivers devastated Senigallia (Ancona) and its rear -country, causing 12 victims and dozens of wounded and displaced. Streams also overflowed into the Pesarese, causing destruction and inconvenience.
September flood damage in Senigallia. Photo Ansa / Daniele Carotti