Overview
- Forecasts keep high pressure in place through Thursday with clear skies and highs near 25–27°C, especially in central and northern inland areas.
- Meteorologists say a cooler air mass from the northeast could break the pattern on Friday, bringing a sharp temperature drop and spotty showers or thunderstorms on the mid to lower Adriatic.
- The setup stems from a hybrid anticyclone that blends an Azores-type oceanic high with subtropical air from North Africa, locking in a warm, stable heat bubble.
- One exception is Liguria, where humid breezes over a cooler sea create persistent low clouds known as maccaja and keep Genoa below about 18°C.
- The early April readings match late May or early June levels and make this Easter stretch one of the warmest in recent decades, according to iLMeteo.it’s Federico Brescia.