Overview
- TgLa7 director Enrico Mentana announced the news on Facebook, writing, "Un nostro lutto, grave: se ne è andato Paolo Sottocorona."
- He was the longstanding on-air forecaster on La7, recognized for clear and restrained analysis that resisted sensationalism.
- Born in Florence in 1947, he joined the Air Force meteorological service in 1972 and served at Guidonia and the National Meteorology Center.
- He later moved to television with Rai and Telemontecarlo before becoming a fixture at La7, where he curated the segment Tempo al tempo.
- In a July interview he rejected sensationalist heat narratives—"Non è vero che in Italia ci sono 40 gradi"—while acknowledging ongoing climate change, and no cause of death has been disclosed.