Fresh bout of bad weather to hit Italy

(ANSA) - ROME, DEC 1 - After a two-day 'truce', a fresh bout of bad weather is set to hit Italy starting Wednesday with a new storm front fed by cold air and propelled by strong libeccio winds across the country, forecasters at the www.iLMeteo.it website said.
    The weather will start getting worse in Sardinia Wednesday with overcast skies and scattered showers, and later in the day clouds will build in central and eastern Liguria, Tuscany, Lazio, Campania and the Calabrian and Sicilian coasts.
    With the passing hours, downpours will become ever more intense in northern Tuscany, around La Spezia and by the evening in Sardinia, Lazio and Campania.
    These same regions will be hit by violent thunderstorms overnight while it will also start raining hard in Emilia Romagna and Veneto.
    The front will bring even worse weather Thursday.
    Thunderstorms will sweep across the northeast and become even fiercer in Tuscany, Lazio and Campania.
    Flooding can be expected in the provinces of Rome, Rieti, Frosinone, Latina and Caserta.
    Libeccio winds will grow ever stronger, with 80 kph gales and the possibility of heavy seas breaking onshore on the Tyrrhenian coasts.
    There will be widespread and heavy snow in Sardinia and on the Apennines, less so in the Triveneto Alps.
    Temperatures will remain below seasonal averages, especially in the north where there will be widespread frost. (ANSA).