Brontoskopos

Βροντοσκόπος — daily blurbs and weekly outlooks for Bologna, Italy

Thursday, 16 July 2026

Thursday, 16 July 2026

1/10 — Miserable. Hot, oppressively muggy, and building toward a stormy edge.

The thermometer should reach around 33.8°C, but with a dew point pushing 22.5°C the air stays thick and sticky all day, and it’ll feel closer to 37.2°C at the peak — humidity, not the raw heat, is what makes this one rough. An isolated storm or two can’t be ruled out during afternoon convection, likely fed by heating over the Apennines. On top of that, European air quality is running poor, UV is high, and grass pollen is moderate — a day to take it easy outdoors and stay hydrated.

And tomorrow… Tomorrow’s shaping up much the same — another 1/10, Miserable — with highs that should push into the mid-30s (feeling closer to 38.8°C) and lows only easing to around 23.6°C, though confidence is low so there’s real spread in how hot it gets. Poor air quality and high UV persist, and another isolated storm chance lingers in the mix.

Tl;dr: It’s another oppressively humid, feels-like-upper-30s day with poor air quality — minimise time outside and watch for an isolated afternoon storm.

Today’s BaZi

The day carries the Xīn Mǎo pillar — a sharp, wiry combination that stirs things up more than it settles them.

C: Outlook: turbulent. A cooperative breeze rolls in early, smoothing over old alliances and making teamwork easy — but by contrast, a stalled system of old obligations circles back and tangles the afternoon in complications you didn’t ask for. Money and shared resources are the pressure point today, so keep the wallet zipped and don’t underwrite anyone else’s plans. Best treated as a day to hold steady rather than gamble.

D: Outlook: gusty with a silver lining. A disruptive front blows through mid-cycle, unsettling routines and pulling attention in several directions at once, but a helpful tailwind develops alongside it, drawing things back together if you let them. Appetite and creative instinct are running high even amid the chop — this favours loose, generative work over rigid meetings or admin, so if you can carve out time for making rather than managing, that’s where today’s energy wants to go.

Today, hour by hour

25° 30° 35° 23° 25° 29° 33° 34° 30° chance of rain 06:00 09:00 12:00 15:00 18:00 21:00

Weather data by Open-Meteo.com. Air quality by Open-Meteo Air Quality API. Models: ECMWF IFS, ICON, GFS, MeteoFrance, Open-Meteo best-match blend. Generated 2026-07-16 00:01 EDT. This is a hobby forecast, not a substitute for official ARPAE / Protezione Civile warnings.