Snow, plummeting temperatures and strong winds. It will be a teeth-rattling Immaculate Conception in Sardinia .

During the night between Saturday and Sunday, very cold air of polar extraction will bring abundant precipitation and temperatures below zero above a thousand metres .

And according to the Decimomannu Air Force weather office , the Gennargentu mountains could wake up under a blanket of snow up to 15 centimeters deep . White flakes that will also fall on mountain towns such as Desulo and Fonni: snow is expected already at 800 meters above sea level, but it is above a thousand that it will fall more abundantly.

It's freezing all over the island: the highs on Sunday, experts explain, "will get very close to the lows" currently, which are between 8 and 10 degrees . And the instability will bring widespread rain and strong winds. " Very intense mistral winds are establishing themselves," explains the weather office, "which will strengthen starting on Saturday evening." And on Sunday, on the mountains, they could reach 100 km per hour, while in the most exposed areas to the north and west they could reach 90.

And it doesn't end here, the cold will persist into the next week. And with it also the rain and snow, which could also reach lower altitudes .

(Online Union)

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