Rain risk at the Giro d’Italia

Rain is coming

Here are the weather forecasts by 3Bmeteo, “Official Weather” of the Giro d’Italia 2024, regarding the fourth stage of the Pink Race, the 190-kilometer Acqui Terme-Andora.  The first part of the race will be unstable with high risk of intermittent rain along the route, an improvement è expected in the final part of the stage when the cyclists will cross the Ligurian coast towards Andora. Departing from Acqui Terme with irregularly cloudy skies and the possibility of some weak rain, temperature 16 degrees.

In the middle of the stage when the riders face the Colle del Melogno high risk of showers with temperature at the summit of 9 degrees. In the final stage along the Ligurian coast marked improvement with partly cloudy skies but low risk of rain and temperature at the finish in Andora of 18 degrees. Light winds from the northeast in the first part of the stage, between Savona and Andora winds from the southeast up to 10 km per hour average. 

The Acqui Terme-Andora scheduled on Tuesday è è is a fairly flat stage that in the central part climbs the Colle Melogno (8 km around 5%) followed by the very long descent that ends in Savona where it follows, until the finish, the same route as the Milano-Sanremo. Last 3 km of the total 190 mostly downhill. Off Capo Mele the road descends in a series of semi-curves to the town of Andora.

Last 800 m practically straight and perfectly flat. Final straight of 650 m on asphalt width 8 m.