With the disturbance of CHRISTMAS, the SNOW at low altitude will also return

After the passage of the two disturbances that made the weekend cloudy and quite rainy, the week that will lead us to the Christmas holidays will begin with the improvement of the weather: the last consequences of the passage of the two disturbed systems, in fact, only they will feel in the far south. , in form of some residual rain that on Monday will wet mainly Puglia, Calabria and Sicily. The situation will remain generally calm for a few days: Tuesday 22 and Wednesday 23, in fact, it will be possible to do without the umbrella, except for isolated and short showers, and this despite the cloudiness that will make life under the sun difficult.

Things will start to change in the second part of Christmas Eve, Thursday the 24th, when the approach of a disturbance in the North Atlantic will bring some rain, albeit generally weak, in Liguria, Lombardy, Western Emilia and Upper Tuscany, as well as light snowfall in northernmost alpine areas, but only at high altitudes. The intense disturbance, accompanied by icy currents of polar origin, will bring a further worsening of the weather on Christmas Eve, with scattered showers over Venice, Emilia, Tuscany, Umbria, Lazio and Campania, while strong Mistral winds will break into Sardinia.

The change in climate will be especially felt on Christmas Day, when the icy polar currents that follow the disturbance will spread across much of our country. Here then is that at Christmas the rain will wet much of the Center and the Lower Tyrrhenian regions, with snowfall in the Central Apennines, in the first part of the day above 600-800 meters while At night, when the cold air has infiltrated most decisively, the snowflakes will spread even at lower altitudes, whitening different areas of the interior. Due to the irruption of icy polar currents it will therefore be a cold Christmas, with temperatures falling significantly in most of Centronord and Sardinia, among other things with the feeling of cold that will be accentuated by the wind.

But the winter cold will not spare even the southern regions, where it will arrive only a few hours late on Saturday 26. a Santo Stefano cold throughout Italy, windy due to the intense winds from the north or northeast in all central and medidionai regions, and characterized by scattered rains that will mainly wet southern Italy, accompanied by snowfall in the Apennine areas even below 1000 meters. In short, they will be Christmas parties with a truly winter flavor!