Weather at the weekend: Azores high pressure changes the scenario for Saturday and Sunday, let’s see what the forecasts are
Weather forecast for the weekend All confirmed: The weather scenario will change significantly over the weekend on European level. After the super heat of the last few weeks and the intense storm low of Thursday 7th, it will come to the fore again the anticyclone of the Azorestraditional travel companion of the Italian summers until 10/15 years ago.
In between Saturday 9 and sunday 10 July so we’ll be able to enjoy a more “normal” climatic interlude and wait for new flare-ups that won’t be long in coming.
If you look at the synoptic overall picture, you can clearly see how it was at the beginning of the weekend there will be a turning point at European level: theoceanic anticyclone which will indeed, at least temporarily, replace its much more repressive African “relative”. Hence the reappearance of the high pressure protagonist of the Italian summers of the past, which after a long time came from the Atlantic Ocean, with its maximum pressure on average near the Azores Islands (hence its name), typically extending to the embrace of Central-West Europe.
The effects have been felt ever since Saturday 9 when we have stable and sunny weather conditions across the country and temperatures that are at or at most slightly above the seasonal average. Because of this, hot yes, but without excess and without the annoyance of the heat of recent weeks marked by the advance of the sub-Saharan anticyclone Charon.
In the south, particularly on the slopes of the Adriatic and Ionian Seas, we expect more brisk and tingling ventilation from the northern quadrants, which will further moderate temperatures.
The high pressure of the Azores will also affect us on Sunday, April 10th Ensuring almost complete atmospheric stability with sun and temperatures essentially in line with the period: maximum peaks are expected in the area 28/32ºC in the main locations in the mid-north, even a few degrees less on the Adriatic side and in the south, where we will have sustained winds with gusts of Tramuntana up to 50 km/h; finally bearable heat also on the two big islands, where highs of 30 °C are to be expected in the hottest hours. Some more clouds are expected between afternoon and evening on the Triveneto and in the middle and lower Tyrrhenian, but with little or no risk of precipitation.
Azores anticyclone next weekend