| Alice Twain |
Jan 23rd, 2003 02:06 AM |
Italy has "moderate" winters. Except on the mountains (where it can get really cold, obviously, but if you go on a mountain in winter you are likely to be looking for low temperatures and snow for skiing) the temperatures will never become too harsh. In norhtern Italy (off the mountains) you will find cold but not freezing weather, some rain but not too much; you will hardly find snow (last year we have had it only once, this year we han't had any yet). In southern Italy temperatures will be warmer: in Sicily it is not uncommon in clear and sunny January day to have a 20°C temperature around noon. On the whole, there is not an area of Italy that has particularly harsh weather. Downpours the whole year round, but they are "downpours" from our Itlaian point of wiew, while I am told that Usa weather can be far more extreme than ours, so they might just look like "a bit of a heavy rain" to a foreigner coming from the Usa. As for venice, the flods are just abonormal tides that happen the whole year round. Yet I must say that weather in the mediterranean area (southern Europe and Northern Africa) is hardly predictable. this both makes our weather forecasts less reliable and our American tourists more worried about bad weather than they ought to be ^_^.
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