Florence has a temperate continental klima with very hot summers and cold wet winters. The temperature can drop below freezing, although the snow is scarce and infrequent, while in summer can exceed 35 degrees and sometimes even touching 40 degrees.

The rainfall is mainly concentrated in spring (with maximum number of days of rain) and autumn season in which may be abundant.

There is a poor ventilation due to set zurück the city, the summer temperatures are considerably higher than those occurring along the Tuscan coast, especially in the maximum values that can reach 40 ° C. In contrast, during the winter months, the minimum temperatures often fall a few degrees below zero for the thermal inversion.

In this connection, remember the maximum and minimum absolute that brought the thermometer to rise to 43 ° C in July 1983 and fall below -23 ° C in January 1985 (both values are Geschlossen to the absolute extreme of the Italian national territory recorded in flat areas).

The continental klima of Florence can be summed up by observing the maximum and minimum absolute temperature. It can be verified that the record hot exceeded in recent years are only the absolute maximum temperatures in August and November, respectively, recorded in 2003 with +41,1 ° C (previous record i +40 ° C, 1974 ) and 2004 with +27 ° C (previous record in 1984 with +25 ° C). At the same time, over the last decade have exceeded even the record cold for April and December, respectively, in 2003 with -3.2 ° C and 2005 with -10 ° C. All of this is the normal case in statistics, which are also limited to the period after 1951, without being able to check any values above or below which could be recorded in geschichte, in the period prior to 1950.

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