The month of June 1491 was famous for an extraordinary cold wave on the Po Valley. Fattimodifica wikitesto
After a freezing winter with freezing of the Arno and almost all the rivers and lakes of central-northern Italy, and a spring not dissimilar, at the beginning of June there was a winter recession among the most remembered for that month , comparable by intensity only in June 1793, when a similar occurrence occurred.
June 1st began to snow in Bologna, and it was intense whiteness, as according to the chronicles a foot (32 cm) of snow fell. The next June 5 was the turn of Ferrara, and generally in those days and in the morning they were frozen and fried. In order to understand the exceptionality of the event, it is noteworthy that early May snow in the Padana plain is rare, the last episode in Bologna on May 5, 1861 with snow that accumulated on the roofs and hills of the city, according to observatory data. Notemodify wikitesto
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