Snow comes to Lombardy: in 1985 the “snow of the century” – Chronicle

Milan, December 25, 2020 – The weather forecast for the next few days announces the return of snow in Lombardy. Toutside Sunday 27th and Monday 28th Decemberin fact one will come disturbance North Atlantic, which will cause widespread precipitation, including snow, to the plains of the central-western sectors. It will be a snowfall of local importance in terms of accumulate (15-30 cm), so much so that Milan has already called the table for the snow floor. In recent years there has been no shortage of “bleaches” even at low altitude. But in everyone’s memory Lombardi one remains carved historic snowfall, 1985. It all began on January 13, when what would be for the inhabitants of the north of the country began. the biggest snowfall of the 20th century. An exceptional cold wave that overturned the luck of the 84-85 winter until then had been mild and little disturbed.

What happened? There were four days of heavy snowfall, until January 17. In more than 72 hours, between 70 and 90 cm of snow fell. The total white blanket that fell reached record levels: 20 centimeters in Genoa, 30 in Venice, 40 in Padua and Treviso, 50 in Udine and Vicenza, 60 in Biella, 80 in Bologna, 110 in Como, 122 in Varese, from 130 to 150 cm in Trento. In Milan, after 4 days and 3 nights of snowfall, the blanket of snow arrived up to 90 cm. It even snowed in Cagliari and all over Sardinia. Not only that, Siberian temperatures occurred since after Epiphany, with negative peaks as low as -10 ° C. Milan was blocked for three days, with the streets invaded by children on sleds and merry on skis. (Photos of the 1985 snowfall)