Sounds pretty grim, for sure!

Arctic attack of exceptional magnitude, never so in the last 70 years. Flakes up to 150 m, 20 cm to 5/600 m on the Modena Apennines. Here are the details
Per approfondire L’Uragano Artico flagella l’Italia, maltempo di portata eccezionale: mai così negli ultimi 70 anni, neve a 150 m - Meteo Web

Cold waves in May, with winter characteristics, are not certain unusual, but we must say that most of them, documented at least 6/7, came in the 50/90 years. There are no traces of other cold waves of this entity in the last 30 years. Some late frosts in May there was also a few years ago for the Apennines, but it was manifested in large part with thermal drop and some night-morning frost due to the serenity of the sky, little associated cyclonic activity and also non-striking snow effects. The cold break in progress during these hours and which sees the highlight on the North Apennines, has few precedents in recent weather history and, moreover, is associated with a depression system of significant intensity and vorticity with bad weather, even intense, although circumscribed.

In the morning of today the winter cyclone has raged with rains and showers on many areas of the Po Valley, from Southeast Piedmont, Central South Lombardy, on most of Veneto, even on Liguria, Emilia Romagna, gradually spreading to Tuscany, Umbria, Marche, already with snow in the hills locally on the Ligurian hills. But from late morning and central hours a strong winter bad weather has struck in particular on Emilia Romagna with often heavy rains, especially on central northern areas, and very consistent hilly snowfall.


Per approfondire L’Uragano Artico flagella l’Italia, maltempo di portata eccezionale: mai così negli ultimi 70 anni, neve a 150 m - Meteo Web

At the Norwegian Trondheim Airport, the temperature dropped to -2.5 C, leaving behind the previous record of -2.2 C set in 1941.

The cold in the western Scandinavian Peninsula will continue in coming days.
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Record cold poses a serious danger to vegetation.

Temperatures have collapsed over the whole of France following the influx of arctic air and, on May 6th, set cold records at numerous locations.

The lowest minimum occurred in Barcellonnette in the Alpes de Haute Provence, on the eastern border with Italy, where the thermometer fell to -6.9 ° C, breaking the previous record of -6.5 ° C set in May 1979.

In Romorantin, 85 meters above sea level in the Loire, a famous producer of grapes for white wine, the temperature collapsed to a dangerous (for vines) of -3.8 ° C.

In this case the new cold record for this month was established, prior to -1.7 ° C on 2 May 2017, the record was therefore exceeded by more than 2 ° C.

A new record was also set in Gueret St. Laurent, 365 m above sea level, with -2.8C.

The record was only touched on at Alencon, with -1.6 ° C, against a value of -2 ° C reached on 8 May 1974. In this case the database started in 1932.

Lowest May temperature in two centuries

In Rodez, a city in southern France, the temperature dropped to -2.7 ° C, breaking a record of -1.9 ° C set on 9 March 1974.

Here the temperature database began in 1846, making it the lowest temperature recorded in May in the last two centuries.

Unfortunately, below-zero temperatures constitute a serious danger to vegetation and necessitated the firing of paraffin-based fires on all main vineyards, as also happened last April.

https://www.meteogiornale.it/notizia/58245-1-meteo-freddo-record-in-francia

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