It always rains on Easter Monday? It is not an metropolitan legend, but a reality

The combination Easter Monday Is rain really a constant? It seems yes. ilmeteo.it has analyzed the Climatological data – rains, temperatures, wind – relating to the last 50 years, from 1975 to 2024, in the 10 main Italian cities, from Rome to Milan, from Florence to Bari, to Naples, Palermo, Cagliari, Venice, Turin and Bologna.

From the data it emerges that in the first place between the cities with the most rainy Easter Monday in the last 50 years there is Rome Which in the period under examination counted almost a Monday of the Angel wet on two. The capital is followed by Florence, Bari and Naples with about 38-40% of Easter Monday with at least one rainy. In Milan, however, there was a lower probability of rain, in 50 years it rained only 14 times.

For the temperatures it happened few times to record values ​​beyond 24 ° C, a sign that we often found ourselves dealing with scattered rainfall or skies often furrowed by clouds. The minimum temperatures dropped rather frequently under 5 ° C (22-30% of cases) especially in the center-north with the podium of the cold occupied by Turin, Florence and Milan. The cities with multiple winds are coastal ones, with Bari and Cagliari in the front row.

In Rome Pasquetta rained 21 times out of 50 rained from 1975 to today. The rains increased from 2000 onwards, with 12 days of Easter Monday out of 25 under the umbrella. The most unfortunate historical phase, in this sense, was that between 2000 and 2005 when, practically every year, for Easter Monday the time was ugly, except for rare episodes. In 2003 and 2004, in particular, the rain was strong and on very disturbed days. Finally, the almost frost of the Easter Monday of 4 April 1994, with a minimum of 1.7 ° C, a very low value, never returned in the last 30 years for this holiday, should be noted.

Easter Monday is historically saved in Milan: The data show how 28% of rain was 72% without thunderstorms. In practice 3 times out of 4 the umbrella has not served. The statistics of the last 50 years also highlights little wind for Milan, a characteristic of almost the entire central-western Po Valley. Among the most interesting episodes, that of April 20, 1992, Monday of the Angel, with full sun and 24.2 ° C maximum (the hottest Milanese Easter Monday since 1975), and the 2024 Easter Monday, the most rainy of the last 50 years.

Florence It is silver medal behind Rome for rainiest city on Easter Monday. On the most intense rains on the most intense rains on 4 April 1983, followed closely since the years 2019 and 2024. Palermo It represents the city where it is more difficult to make forecasts for the Easter Monday: a year there are 27 degrees, two years after 12 ° C maximum; One year he sees rain in Dirotto, the other a scorching sun with almost 29 ° C. 34% of Easter Monday days, from 1975 to today, record a few drops of rain – in practice 1 out of 3 – while in the other two the time has been dry. 1 Easter Monday in 3 also sees the wind blowing in a tense way, the other 2 bonaccia.

Forecast for Easter Monday 2025

Also this year the combination Easter Monday And rain does not seem to be denied: the entry of the most unstable air at altitude, piloted by a deep cyclone present on northern Europe, will destabilize the atmosphere, increasing the probability of the classic temporal showers first on the Alps and Prealps, in local extension then to the nearby plains of Piedmont and Lombardy, with isolated rainfall expected also in Emilia Romagna. From the afternoon, even in Lazio there is the risk of some short reverse especially on the hilly and mountainous areas. By the evening, some storms are expected on the Tyrrhenian regions and on Abruzzo, Molise and Nord of Puglia. Greater sunny spaces on the rest of Italy. A widespread instability already present on Easter day, when yet another disturbance will arrive on part of Italy. Possible rains and temporal rooms in the North-West, Sardinia and Tuscany. It will be fast phenomena not able to ruin the entire festive day. Between the afternoon and the evening some rain will tend to extend irregularly to the rest of the north. More sun on the rest of the center south and Sicily with maximum temperatures until 20-22 ° C.