What will the weather be like today? The forecast for Saturday 18 May

From North to South, cloudiness with showers throughout the day

North

Irregular, even intense cloud cover with associated isolated showers or thunderstorms evolving during the day over Valle d’Aosta, Trentino-Alto Adige and the remaining Alpine/pre-Alpine sector and with possible afternoon and evening spills onto the Piedmont plains and Lombard; risk of local thunderstorms, including intense ones, between the afternoon and early evening in the flat areas of Piedmont. Mostly clear skies in the rest of the north with clouds increasing from night time

Centre

Local rain over Sardinia during the night followed by clear spells until the evening when the cloud cover will increase again from the south with possible showers on the southern sector of the island; on the rest of the center clear sky or at most opaque for passages of medium-high veiling; clouds significantly increasing from the evening over Tuscany, Marche, Umbria and Lazio, also with possible thundershowers expected in lower Tuscany, upper Lazio, Umbria and the Marche Apennines

South

Scattered light rains and local showers or thunderstorms between late morning and afternoon over the Tyrrhenian regions, the Apulian Apennines and Sicily, with phenomena mainly subsiding in the evening, except for local persistence in the Lucanian area and in the sector northeast of the island. Harmless but thick clouds over the rest of the south

Temperatures

Minimum temperatures rising in Valle d’Aosta, Piedmont, Calabria and the major islands; stationary or slightly decreasing in the other regions; maximums rising in Liguria, Lombardy, tri-Veneto, the Emilia-Romagna Apennines, central Tyrrhenian regions, including Sardinia, Umbria, the Marche, Abruzzo and Molise regions, Campania and the Tyrrhenian sectors of Basilicata, Calabria and Sicily; decreasing on the Veneto, Romagna and Marche coasts, as well as on the Ionian areas of Puglia and Basilicata, and in the Sicilian hinterland; stationary on the remaining territory

Twenty

Weak southerners on the Alps and pre-Alps, in the central-southern peninsula and Sicily with reinforcements on the island and on Puglia; weak over the rest of Italy, northern over Sardinia and from the eastern quadrants over the rest of the north

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