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A rare meteorological phenomenon will affect Italy in the next few hours: at the end of a hot summer, a tropical cyclone coming from the coasts of Tunisia advances towards the Ionian Sea and will hit Sicily and Calabria, sometimes affecting them with abundant rains and strong winds. . The cyclone will subsequently move towards Greece causing an intense wave of bad weather. This type of cyclone it has nothing to envy to the classic hurricanes that plague the tropical sector of the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. The essential characteristic is the ‘warm core’ (warm core in technical terms), particularly present in the lower layers, with temperatures higher than +2 C +3 C (but also higher) than the surrounding environment.
What are tropical cyclones?
Tropical cyclones (‘TLC’ tropical cyclones) are capable of retaining a large amount of energy during their journey, often resulting in intense convective activity in the center, where particularly violent storm systems can hide and very strong winds. and turbulent. with gusts of more than 120 kilometers per hour, often in the form of a storm. IlMeteo.it experts warn that from this afternoon / evening the rains will begin to affect Ionian Sicily and Calabria. The precipitation will then intensify overnight with heavy thunderstorms and possible storms in the Reggio area. Bad weather will leave the two regions in the course of tomorrow afternoon.
Weather forecast September 16 and 17
In the rest of Italy, the weather will be quite sunny and warm, only the eastern Alps and the central Apennines will be affected by some thunderstorms in the afternoon. Today, Wednesday 16 September, afternoon thunderstorms are expected in the north in the Alps, in the center: afternoon thunderstorms in the Apennines, sun elsewhere. In the south: worsening in Sicily and Calabria with increasingly widespread rains. Thursday 17.
For tomorrow, instability in the Triveneto reliefs in northern Italy. In the middle; sunny and isolated thunderstorms in the frusinate. In the south: the last heavy rains on the Tyrrhenian coast of Messina and Reggio.
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