www.iLMeteo.it The cyclonic vortex that is raging with extreme violence on eastern Sicily, after a temporary loss of strength, will strengthen further from Thursday and will reach Sicily on Friday.
The team of the IlMeteo.it site warns that after a Wednesday certainly less rainy for Sicily and good weather for the rest of Italy, from Thursday the cyclone will set off towards the island with the risk of becoming a dangerous medicane.
This term derives from the fusion of the English words MEDIterranean hurriCANE, literally “Mediterranean hurricane” as due to the physical characteristics of the atmospheric structure it recalls the “monsters” that form on the oceans.
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Weather, what is a Medicane and how the Mediterranean cyclone is formed
by Matteo Marini
If this were to materialize, the bad weather will still become really heavy especially on central-eastern Sicily, northern and then on Ionian Calabria, which will be lashed by stormy winds, heavy and persistent rains for over 24-48 hours. If Thursday it will rain extensively only on Sardinia, Friday will be the crucial day in which the possible medicane, positioned right on Sicily, will unleash all its violence on the island and on Ionian Calabria.
The rest of Italy, on the other hand, will stand by and watch, thanks to the shelter offered by the high pressure. Around the depression center, winds could blow with gusts of over 100 km / h, generating intense storm surges on the coasts.
IN DETAIL
Wednesday 27. In the north: good weather. Center: mostly sunny. In the south: rains only on Sicily, strong on Trapani and Agrigento.
Thursday 28. In the north: sunny. Middle: it worsens widely in Sardinia with heavy rains. In the south: mostly dry except for isolated rain showers on the Ionian coasts.
Friday 29. In the north: good weather prevailing. Middle: last rains in Sardinia, dry elsewhere. In the south: flood risk on Sicily and Ionian Calabria.
An Atlantic disturbance will approach over the weekend.
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