Extreme weather - Italy Video Transcripts
Video 1 Transcript
In Sicily, southern coast of Sicily, we had this thing called the Scirocco come through, which is a windstorm from North Africa. It brings all the sand from North Africa, and then it mixes with the rain as it comes back down, and so it rains kind of like this sandy mud. And at first I was like really confused what was happening as our shirts were getting filled with this mud, and then a member explained to us what it was. And it's cool because in the New Testament, Paul, as he's going from Malta to Rome, says there was a strong wind from Africa called the Scirocco that pushed us forward. So that was pretty cool. And then also in Sicily, the volcano does erupt, and so one morning we woke up and the whole city was covered in ash. And so it is an active volcano there.
Video 2 Transcript
Sometimes, especially in the spring and the fall, it'll just start raining out of nowhere. Like, rain like just buckets and buckets and buckets. And when that happens, you make it for the near shelter and just hope for the best. In the northern anyway, it's hot in the summers and it's cold in the winters. So just prepare for all seasons, basically. That's one of the beautiful things about Italy is they really do have all four seasons. It's hot in the summer, it's really hot, and it's really cold in the winter. Depending on where you are, it's kind of different. But yeah, weather fluctuates just like anywhere and there's a lot more hail there than I have. And just, yeah, it's humid too. So if you're not prepared for humidity, be prepared because it does get, it gets really hot. I remember it was, I think it was 95 degrees in our apartment at night during the summer. So that's hot and most places don't have air conditioning. So be prepared, hot and humid, cold and humid. It's a great time.
Video 3 Transcript
I think the craziest weather I got was rain. It still isn't that bad, I just remember though, you just get soaked to the bone, and the heating system isn't that great in Italy, so it never really snowed in the winter, but it would rain a lot, and then you'd go home and you're soaking wet, like, my tights and my shoes and everything were wet, but there was no way to, like, warm up really, so you just, like, were kind of cold for, like, four months. But you figure it out. We found a lot of blankets. So I think rain was the weirdest. I think I saw it snow, like, little flurries once, and then it just was super hot in the summer, depending on how far south you were.
Video 4 Transcript
The weather in Italy isn't too, too crazy. Um, the summers are pretty hot, um, and the winters can be pretty cold. The farther, if you're, especially if you're farther up north, um, but overall it's very humid. So when it's cold, it's the kind of cold that kind of cuts through through the bone. And then when it's hot during the summer, it really doesn't cool down at night. So it's a lot harder to sleep. Um, I'm from a place where it's pretty dry all the time. So the humidity was a big shock for me to deal with, but, um, overall you won't have, you know, hurricanes, tornadoes, any crazy stuff like that. It'll just be standard run of the mill stuff with a little bit of humidity thrown in. So don't worry too much about that.
Video 5 Transcript
We're in Savona in the wintertime. It's amazing because, I guess any of the cities down there, Genova, Savona, you get a really nice warm ocean breeze blowing in from the Mediterranean, and so it's wintertime and it feels like it's supposed to be cold, but the weather is amazing. Other than that, in the north in Bolzano it gets bitter cold, but from like Milan and south it's pretty warm, pretty toasty. But yeah, Savona, I was there, I loved it, and the weather there was great in the winter.
Video 6 Transcript
So it's really hot in the summer, so definitely make sure you have water with you wherever you go because you're going to be walking a lot and you're going to get dehydrated and that's just not as fun. So bring water.
