Italy

[Summer Sun]

Snow has made it to the coast in Italy

 

[Kirkcaldy Weather]

 

 

[Kirkcaldy Weather]

 

[snowray]

Heavy snow is back in Northern Italy this morning, as the colder air moves in and snow level dropping fast to around 500/600m.

[snowray]

Just been reading that there is close to 1 meter of snow in places like Formazza at 1,000m asl, it don't half come down fast over there when conditions are right.

[4wd]

Stelvio looks grim but not particularly cold
http://www.solda2000.com/webstelvioen.htm

[snowray]

Heavy snow again in Northern Italy even at low lying areas in the NE. 40/50cm of fresh snow in places above 800/1,000m,

[4wd]

Stelvio cams look apocalyptic
Some of them stopped working mid April and last image shows as much snow as I ever saw up there, this morning heavy snow again and temperature indicated as -13 on one (10am today)

http://www.solda2000.com/webstelvioen.htm

Edited May 5, 2019 by 4wd

[4wd]

Just over the border in Austria at Silvretta it's -5 with another major dump. 
https://www.montafon.at/en/service/webcams

You can expect these mountain passes not fully open until June especially the minor roads which often need repairs from avalanche damage etc.
However most years the great majority are open by mid-May

[James1979]

So is this latest Acqua Alta a sign of the changing climate or part and parcel of the Venetian set up? 5 of the top ten tides in the last 20 years makes for pretty grim reading.  

[Josh Romano]

On 06/01/2019 at 15:52, Kirkcaldy Weather said:

Hello, courteous users! From today I will occasionally try to give you some news on what happens at the climatic and meteorological level in Italy, a country that is very varied from this point of view, being extremely extended in latitude (reaching out from the borders with Central Europe at substantially Tunisian latitudes) but also discreetly in longitude.
In recent decades, the Italian climate has warmed up a lot during the months of the hot semester and in particular during the summer, with a thermal increase in the summers of this decade of about 2.2 ° compared to the relatively temperate 70s. In winter the heating was slower and less sensitive, although this decade is still warmer in winter than in the years between 2001 and 2010; strangely the 2000s in winter have gone against the trend compared to the mild 90s winters. But we will talk about this, I hope. I tell you for now that 2019 will certainly be among the first 5 years of the post-war period in Italy, even though it was a particular year in its own right, having had very limited positive anomalies from January to May and being instead one of the hottest from June to now.

 

Edited December 18, 2019 by Romano

[Josh Romano]

6 minutes ago, Romano said:

 

Using the average 2001/18, the Rome Ciampino station has an average of 26 ° in July, compared to 24.4 ° in the 71/2000 average. This data highlights the strong summer warming that occurred in Italy and in the central Mediterranean in general. Conversely, in January Rome rose from 8.2% on average to 71/10 to 8.6% on the 2001/18 average, so the heating for this time of the year was more moderate and slow.

[Josh Romano]

3 hours ago, Romano said:

Using the average 2001/18, the Rome Ciampino station has an average of 26 ° in July, compared to 24.4 ° in the 71/2000 average. This data highlights the strong summer warming that occurred in Italy and in the central Mediterranean in general. Conversely, in January Rome rose from 8.2% on average to 71/10 to 8.6% on the 2001/18 average, so the heating for this time of the year was more moderate and slow.

8,2° and 8,6°,not 8,2% and 8,6%, sorry...

[Josh Romano]

37 minutes ago, Josh Romano said:

8,2° and 8,6°,not 8,2% and 8,6%, sorry...

Here are some data on the powerful heat wave that hit Italy and the central and southern Balkans in August 2017, one of the strongest ever recorded in these areas in a really terrible summer, second only to the historic European summer of 2003:

 

PROVINCIA DI FROSINONE
Alatri-Basciano                           45,8
Alvito-Istituto S. Benedetto              40,7
Anagni-La Gloria                          42,0
Arpino-Vigne Piane                        42,0
Boville Ernica-Sasso                      43,8
Esperia-Modale                            43,6
Pastena-Acero                             41,9
Piglio-Civitella                          41,7
Pontecorvo-Melfi di Sotto                 41,3
S. Elia Fiumerapido-Portella              41,3
S. Giorgio a Liri-Porto                   42,1
Sgurgola-Campo Lungo                      43,8
Vallecorsa-Serbatoio Comunale             40,4

PROVINCIA DI LATINA     
Cisterna-Doganella di Ninfa               41,0
Cori-Portone                              41,8

PROVINCIA DI RIETI       
Borgovelino-Ponte Basso                   41,9
Cantalupo-S.Francesco                     41,8
Castel di Tora-Monte di Tora              41,6
Castelnuovo di Farfa-C. Spadone           43,3
Configni-Portella                         42,2
Fara Sabina-Canneto                       44,6
Fara Sabina-Sant'Andrea                   42,2
Monteleone Sabino-Prato Camino            41,4
Montopoli in Sabina-Colle Arcone          41,9
Montopoli in Sabina-Villa Caprola         43,7
Poggio Catino-Pastine                     42,2

 

It is interesting to note that many of the locations mentioned are not located in the plains but at mid or low hill altitude.

In southeast of Italy , it touched the minimum of 30 ° in Puglia and Basilicata (latitude like Castilla and Mancha in Spain).
In Podgorica (Montenegro) for 10 days the maximum temperature was between 35 ° and 41 ° and the minimum touched twice 27 degrees, exceeding the record of July 2007 and July 1987, but also the end of August 2003.

In Milan have reached peaks of 37/38 degrees, beating the record in August 2003 and August 2012.

Edited December 18, 2019 by Josh Romano

[Josh Romano]

3 minutes ago, Josh Romano said:

Here are some data on the powerful heat wave that hit Italy and the central and southern Balkans in August 2017, one of the strongest ever recorded in these areas in a really terrible summer, second only to the historic European summer of 2003:

 

PROVINCIA DI FROSINONE
Alatri-Basciano                           45,8
Alvito-Istituto S. Benedetto              40,7
Anagni-La Gloria                          42,0
Arpino-Vigne Piane                        42,0
Boville Ernica-Sasso                      43,8
Esperia-Modale                            43,6
Pastena-Acero                             41,9
Piglio-Civitella                          41,7
Pontecorvo-Melfi di Sotto                 41,3
S. Elia Fiumerapido-Portella              41,3
S. Giorgio a Liri-Porto                   42,1
Sgurgola-Campo Lungo                      43,8
Vallecorsa-Serbatoio Comunale             40,4

PROVINCIA DI LATINA     
Cisterna-Doganella di Ninfa               41,0
Cori-Portone                              41,8

PROVINCIA DI RIETI       
Borgovelino-Ponte Basso                   41,9
Cantalupo-S.Francesco                     41,8
Castel di Tora-Monte di Tora              41,6
Castelnuovo di Farfa-C. Spadone           43,3
Configni-Portella                         42,2
Fara Sabina-Canneto                       44,6
Fara Sabina-Sant'Andrea                   42,2
Monteleone Sabino-Prato Camino            41,4
Montopoli in Sabina-Colle Arcone          41,9
Montopoli in Sabina-Villa Caprola         43,7
Poggio Catino-Pastine                     42,2

 

It is interesting to note that many of the locations mentioned are not located in the plains but at mid or low hill altitude.

In southeast of Italy , it touched the minimum of 30 ° in Puglia and Basilicata (latitude like Castilla and Mancha in Spain).
In Podgorica (Montenegro) for 10 days the maximum temperature was between 35 ° and 41 ° and the minimum touched twice 27 degrees, exceeding the record of July 2007 and July 1987, but also the end of August 2003.

In Milan have reached peaks of 37/38 degrees, beating the record in August 2003 and August 2012.

In practice, in those days of August 2017, the temperatures of the Italian Apennines were comparable to the average temperatures of the Algerian Atlas.

[Lauren]

Great storm happening on this cam right now.

https://www.skylinewebcams.com/en/webcam/italia/campania/napoli/napoli-vesuvio.html

[Josh Romano]

20 hours ago, Lauren said:

Great storm happening on this cam right now.

https://www.skylinewebcams.com/en/webcam/italia/campania/napoli/napoli-vesuvio.html

Yes, dear :)

[Josh Romano]

On 20/12/2019 at 15:28, Josh Romano said:

Yes, dear

Best Christmas holidays to all forum members and your families! It will be a mild Christmas in Italy, probably the hottest third of this century, after Christmas 2002 and Christmas 2009 (which was spring especially in the center and south). In the following days temperatures should drop temporarily, especially in the Adriatic regions, the most above average in recent months but without particularly low values.

[Perlecano]

Hi, I'm from Italy. I live in Carbonate, a small village located in Lombardy (northern Italy). With the suggestion of my friend Josh Romano, I signed up some days ago.

In the first 23 days, December 2019 has been exceptionally hot in Italy. The two hottest December months in italian climatological history are 2000 and 1915, both with an estimated 1,9 °C above 1981-2010 average national temperature. But the 1-23 December 2019 period results 2,6 °C above the whole month 1981-2010 average! Such a tremendous anomaly...

Will December 2019 succeed in beating the December 2000 and 1915 national anomaly? It all depends on the situation in Central and Southern Italy, as ECMWF and GFS operational runs (and ensembles) aren't sure yet about how much HP will cover the peninsula from west to east, and - on the other hand - still show a large spread between different ensemble scenarios, thus indicating that the cold wave now expected to reach Balkans (especially Eastern Balkans) can be west-shifted easily, subsequently creating a quite cold period for Eastern Italy, although even this scenario wouldn't guarantee the 2000 and 1915 maintenance of the first national place.

 

P.S. sorry for my bad English: I'm not an English native speaker.

[Norrance]

Welcome to the forum Perlecano.
Average temperatures here just now but looking like a very mild end to the month with temperatures rising after tomorrow. There does look like a chance of the colder air heading to SE Europe getting as far West as Eastern Italy.

[Perlecano]

thanks @Norrance :)

[Josh Romano]

19 hours ago, Perlecano said:

Hi, I'm from Italy. I live in Carbonate, a small village located in Lombardy (northern Italy). With the suggestion of my friend Josh Romano, I signed up some days ago.

In the first 23 days, December 2019 has been exceptionally hot in Italy. The two hottest December months in italian climatological history are 2000 and 1915, both with an estimated 1,9 °C above 1981-2010 average national temperature. But the 1-23 December 2019 period results 2,6 °C above the whole month 1981-2010 average! Such a tremendous anomaly...

Will December 2019 succeed in beating the December 2000 and 1915 national anomaly? It all depends on the situation in Central and Southern Italy, as ECMWF and GFS operational runs (and ensembles) aren't sure yet about how much HP will cover the peninsula from west to east, and - on the other hand - still show a large spread between different ensemble scenarios, thus indicating that the cold wave now expected to reach Balkans (especially Eastern Balkans) can be west-shifted easily, subsequently creating a quite cold period for Eastern Italy, although even this scenario wouldn't guarantee the 2000 and 1915 maintenance of the first national place.

 

P.S. sorry for my bad English: I'm not an English native speaker.

 

18 hours ago, Norrance said:

Welcome to the forum Perlecano.
Average temperatures here just now but looking like a very mild end to the month with temperatures rising after tomorrow. There does look like a chance of the colder air heading to SE Europe getting as far West as Eastern Italy.

Here are the temperatures recorded on Christmas Eve and Christmas day in the station of the Roman College (central Rome) in this century:
24.12.2001 -0.2 ° + 9.1 °
12/25/2001 -0.8 ° + 8.1 °
24.12.2002 + 7.6 ° + 12.5 °
12/25/2002 + 8,5 ° + 13,2 °
24.12.2003 + 0.1 ° + 8.5 °
25.12.2003 -1.1 ° + 11.2 °
24.12.2004 + 4.4 ° + 10.0 °
12/25/2004 + 5.5 ° + 12.7 °
12/24/2005 + 3,9 ° + 11,5 °
12/25/2005 + 4,2 ° + 10,7 °
24.12.2006 + 1.1 ° + 11.2 °
12/25/2006 + 3,0 ° + 11,9 °
24.12.2007 + 1.5 ° + 11.0 °
12/25/2007 + 2,0 ° + 10,2 °
24.12.2008 + 1.0 ° + 10.4 °
25.12.2008 + 0.7 ° + 11.8 °
24.12.2009 + 8.8 ° + 18.6 °
25.12.2009 + 14.1 ° + 18.4 °
24.12.2010 + 4.8 ° + 12.0 °
25.12.2010 + 3.0 ° + 11.2 °
24.12.2011 + 3.2 ° + 11.9 °
25.12.2001 + 2.7 ° + 11.5 °
24.12.2012 + 7.5 ° + 13.0 °
12/25/2012 + 11.1 ° + 13.1 °
24.12.2013 + 3.8 ° + 13.1 °
25.12.2013 + 5.0 ° + 12.9 °
24.12.2014 + 5.5 ° + 13.2 °
12/25/2014 + 3,5 ° + 13,0 °
24.12.2015 + 4.6 ° + 14.0 °
25.12.2015 + 4.6 ° + 13.5 °
12/24/2016 + 1.9 ° + 12.0 °
12/25/2016 + 3.5 ° + 12.2 °
24.12.2017 + 5.1 ° + 13.1 °
25.12.2017 + 6.0 ° + 12.9 °
24.12.2018 + 7.1 ° + 13.4 °
25.12.2018 + 8.8 ° + 12.7 °
 

[Josh Romano]

On 18/12/2019 at 15:56, Josh Romano said:

Here are some data on the powerful heat wave that hit Italy and the central and southern Balkans in August 2017, one of the strongest ever recorded in these areas in a really terrible summer, second only to the historic European summer of 2003:

 

PROVINCIA DI FROSINONE
Alatri-Basciano                           45,8
Alvito-Istituto S. Benedetto              40,7
Anagni-La Gloria                          42,0
Arpino-Vigne Piane                        42,0
Boville Ernica-Sasso                      43,8
Esperia-Modale                            43,6
Pastena-Acero                             41,9
Piglio-Civitella                          41,7
Pontecorvo-Melfi di Sotto                 41,3
S. Elia Fiumerapido-Portella              41,3
S. Giorgio a Liri-Porto                   42,1
Sgurgola-Campo Lungo                      43,8
Vallecorsa-Serbatoio Comunale             40,4

PROVINCIA DI LATINA     
Cisterna-Doganella di Ninfa               41,0
Cori-Portone                              41,8

PROVINCIA DI RIETI       
Borgovelino-Ponte Basso                   41,9
Cantalupo-S.Francesco                     41,8
Castel di Tora-Monte di Tora              41,6
Castelnuovo di Farfa-C. Spadone           43,3
Configni-Portella                         42,2
Fara Sabina-Canneto                       44,6
Fara Sabina-Sant'Andrea                   42,2
Monteleone Sabino-Prato Camino            41,4
Montopoli in Sabina-Colle Arcone          41,9
Montopoli in Sabina-Villa Caprola         43,7
Poggio Catino-Pastine                     42,2

 

It is interesting to note that many of the locations mentioned are not located in the plains but at mid or low hill altitude.

In southeast of Italy , it touched the minimum of 30 ° in Puglia and Basilicata (latitude like Castilla and Mancha in Spain).
In Podgorica (Montenegro) for 10 days the maximum temperature was between 35 ° and 41 ° and the minimum touched twice 27 degrees, exceeding the record of July 2007 and July 1987, but also the end of August 2003.

In Milan have reached peaks of 37/38 degrees, beating the record in August 2003 and August 2012.

Happy 2020 to all! Here are the temperatures recorded at the Roman College (central Rome) in all New Years from 2001 to 2019. Note that statistically New Year's day is much colder than Christmas in Rome!
01.01.2001 + 4.3 ° / + 11.2 °
01.01.2002 -1.1 ° / + 7.9 °
01.01.2003 + 7.5 ° / + 14.5 °
01.01.2004 + 7.0 ° / + 14.1 °
01.01.2005 + 6.1 ° / + 14.2 °
01.01.2006 + 5.1 ° / + 9.9 °
01.01.2007 + 2.1 ° / + 12.6 °
01.01.2008 + 6.9 ° / + 13.0 °
01.01.2009 + 1.9 ° / + 9.1 °
01.01.2010 + 10.0 ° / + 15.4 °
01.01.2011 + 5.1 ° / + 12.7 °
01.01.2012 + 2.5 ° / + 12.0 °
01.01.2013 + 7.2 ° / + 12.8 °
01.01.2014 + 6.9 ° / + 13.4 °
01.01.2015 -3.2 ° / + 7.2 °
01.01.2016 + 9.0 ° / + 14.1 °
01.01.2017 + 2.1 ° / + 10.8 °
01.01.2018 + 6.0 ° / + 13.2 °
01.01.2019 + 5.4 ° / + 11.9 °

[Josh Romano]

On 24/12/2019 at 16:03, Perlecano said:

Hi, I'm from Italy. I live in Carbonate, a small village located in Lombardy (northern Italy). With the suggestion of my friend Josh Romano, I signed up some days ago.

In the first 23 days, December 2019 has been exceptionally hot in Italy. The two hottest December months in italian climatological history are 2000 and 1915, both with an estimated 1,9 °C above 1981-2010 average national temperature. But the 1-23 December 2019 period results 2,6 °C above the whole month 1981-2010 average! Such a tremendous anomaly...

Will December 2019 succeed in beating the December 2000 and 1915 national anomaly? It all depends on the situation in Central and Southern Italy, as ECMWF and GFS operational runs (and ensembles) aren't sure yet about how much HP will cover the peninsula from west to east, and - on the other hand - still show a large spread between different ensemble scenarios, thus indicating that the cold wave now expected to reach Balkans (especially Eastern Balkans) can be west-shifted easily, subsequently creating a quite cold period for Eastern Italy, although even this scenario wouldn't guarantee the 2000 and 1915 maintenance of the first national place.

 

P.S. sorry for my bad English: I'm not an English native speaker.

The day of Epiphany, January 6th, ends the Christmas holidays and is very popular in Italy. In particular, in Rome there is always the memory of the historic snowfall of 06.01.1985, the largest of the 20th century. Here are the temperatures recorded at the Roman College on all 6 January from 2001 to 2019. The warming experienced in recent decades is noted more than the temperatures on New Year's day, although with some rare exceptions such as in the days of Epiphany in 2002,2012 , 2017:
06.01.2001 + 10.4 ° / + 18.5 °
06.01.2002 -1.9 ° / + 7.0 °
06.01.2003 + 10.1 ° / + 17.2 °
06.01.2004 + 7.2 ° / + 13.5 °
06.01.2005 + 5.0 ° / + 13.7 °
06.01.2006 + 4.7 ° / + 8.9 °
06.01.2007 + 5.3 ° / + 12.5 °
06.01.2008 + 8.1 ° / + 13.2 °
06.01.2009 + 6.1 ° / 12.2 °
06.01.2010 + 7.5 ° / + 12.0 °
06.01.2011 + 6.0 ° / + 12.2 °
06.01.2012 + 0.9 ° / + 10.2 °
06.01.2013 + 5.6 ° / + 14.0 °
06.01.2014 + 7.1 ° / + 13.5 °
06.01.2015 + 4.5 ° / + 11.9 °
06.01.2016 + 8.8 ° / + 17.0 °
06.01.2017 -5.5 ° / + 5.9 °
06.01.2018 + 8.1 ° / + 13.2 °
06.01.2019 + 0.0 ° / + 9.1 °
 

Edited January 4, 2020 by Josh Romano

[Perlecano]

12 minutes ago, Josh Romano said:

The day of Epiphany, January 6th, ends the Christmas holidays and is very popular in Italy. In particular, in Rome there is always the memory of the historic snowfall of 06.01.1985, the largest of the 20th century. Here are the temperatures recorded at the Roman College on all 6 January from 2001 to 2019. The warming experienced in recent decades is noted more than the temperatures on New Year's day, although with some rare exceptions such as in the days of Epiphany in 2002,2012 , 2017:
06.01.2001 + 10.4 ° / + 18.5 °
06.01.2002 -1.9 ° / + 7.0 °
06.01.2003 + 10.1 ° / + 17.2 °
06.01.2004 + 7.2 ° / + 13.5 °
06.01.2005 + 5.0 ° / + 13.7 °
06.01.2006 + 4.7 ° / + 8.9 °
06.01.2007 + 5.3 ° / + 12.5 °
06.01.2008 + 8.1 ° / + 13.2 °
06.01.2009 + 6.1 ° / 12.2 °
06.01.2010 + 7.5 ° / + 12.0 °
06.01.2011 + 6.0 ° / + 12.2 °
06.01.2012 + 0.9 ° / + 10.2 °
06.01.2013 + 5.6 ° / + 14.0 °
06.01.2014 + 7.1 ° / + 13.5 °
06.01.2015 + 4.5 ° / + 11.9 °
06.01.2016 + 8.8 ° / + 17.0 °
06.01.2017 -5.5 ° / + 5.9 °
06.01.2018 + 8.1 ° / + 13.2 °
06.01.2019 + 0.0 ° / + 9.1 °
 

In Northern Italy (especially Northwestern regions) also the Epiphany of 2009 had a major snowfall (very important event, with 40 cm approximately in Milan and something more in other places). They could have been more, unless the freezing rain (because of the humid and warm "sirocco" that caused a warming till above zero of the air column over the soil, while the lower layers remained below 0 °C or at least around zero) that occurred from the night between January 6th and 7th.

Edited January 4, 2020 by Perlecano