Spring has just sprung, but Winter has decided to leave a deep, white and at times turbulent imprint on our country. Get ready, because i next few days they will be unstablea real meteorological roller coaster.
Lorenzo Tedicimedia meteorologist responsible for iLMeteo.itconfirms that the first big news concerns our mountains. In the Alps Western countries we will have other important accumulations, up to 30-40 cm of fresh snow already starting from 900 meters above sea level. This is another precious load, in this very snowy 2026: a real godsend to combat the specter of summer drought, as well as a splendid surprise for the joy of skiers and mountain lovers.
The trajectory of the bad weather will see the phenomena move, on Saturday, from the Dolomites towards the west: from the evening it will begin to snow much more intensely in the western Alps, where the bad weather will be the absolute protagonist until late Sunday morning.
Sunday will therefore open with rain across much of the North-West; subsequently, however, the weather in these areas will tend to improve, while instability will increase in the Centre-South.
We will witness the most classic of spring instability: frequent afternoon showers will break out between Lazio, Abruzzo, Molise and much of the South, which will be more intense and organized close to the reliefs.
If during this weekend we can still cling to the concept of “spring instability” (even with snow at medium-low altitudes in the Alps), in the new week the watchword will be only one, peremptory and unequivocal: “Arctic strike in the heart of the Mediterranean”.
Starting from the evening of Wednesday 25 March, a cold mass of arctic maritime air will descend in a vertical dive towards Italy. Exactly three months before Christmas, almost as if they were pulled by reindeer, these polar currents will bring a real thermal collapse.
Snow will return up to 500 meters above sea level in the Centre-North, accompanied by stormy winds and stormy seas. It promises to be one extreme phase between 25 and 28 Marchwith a strong disturbance capable of triggering even violent phenomena (thunderstorms and hailstorms). We will therefore carefully follow the exact trajectory of this Arctic front, but we can already state with high confidence that temperatures will remain inexorably below average at least until Palm Sunday.
And for the Saint Easter? Here we enter the field of fantasy weather, and the situation becomes incredibly fascinating. Until yesterday, mathematical models indicated a still fresh Easter scenario, dominated by wind and uncertainty. Today’s latest emissions, aided by Artificial Intelligence, have instead overturned everything, leaning towards a decidedly warmer and sunnier Easter period.
This high “variance” (i.e. the drastic change in forecast from one day to the next) is clear proof that forecasts beyond 10 days, especially at this time of year, are less reliable.
We meteorologists will continue to monitor the evolution to provide you with a reliable trend line: at the moment we are quite good at anticipating the arrival of heat waves or extreme cold in the long term, but we still have to work on it to frame the intermediate and fluctuating configurations of Spring!
