Heavy rain to end St Martin's Summer

(ANSA) - ROME, NOV 2 - A wave of heavy rain is set to end Italy's unusually long St Martin's Summer that has brought summer weather to the Bel Paese and seen beachgoers taking a dip over the recent November 1 holiday weekend, forecaster Lorenzo Tedici of the website www.iLMeteo.it said Wednesday.
    Morning fog will give way to scattered showers starting in the north later Wednesday as abundant rain, strong winds and falling temperatures are set to sweep the peninsula, he said.
    The spell of bad weather will be heralded by the arrival over Italy Thursday of a cyclonic vortex from northern Europe that will bring an intense rain front to the country, Tedici said.
    Temperatures will fall to seasonal averages everywhere, he said.
    (ANSA).