Bad weather: flooding, schools closed in the Alessandria area. Genoa: orange alert. Incoming cyclones

2019-11-19T10:10:38.823Z

Rain and snow continue to fall in the province of Alessandria, especially in the Apennine areas, on the border with Liguria, and up to low altitude in the Erro and Bormida valleys. The Civil Protection also reports flooding in the Alessandria and Alto Monferrato areas. The schools are closed in 36 Municipalities. In Alexandria lessons were suspended in the middle school of the suburb of Spinetta Marengo. In Bosco Marengo the fire brigade intervened for a car stuck in an underpass: when they arrived, there was no one in the car. Orange alert in Genoa open schools The orange alert for meteo-hydrogeological risk remains in Genoa, but today the schools are regularly open. This was decided by the Municipal Operations Center at a meeting at 5.30am this morning. Meanwhile, the territorial garrison for the control and monitoring of municipal waterways has been established. There are 20 municipal police patrols and 10 volunteer teams in constant connection with the municipal civil protection operations room, open 24 hours a day for the duration of the alert. Patrols and teams are ready to sound the alarm and provide for security actions. The Directorates of the Municipality, the municipalities and the companies (Aster, Amiu and Amt) have activated the emergency plans foreseen for the state of orange weather alert. The Civic Museum of Natural History 'G. Doria ', the Loggia of piazza Banchi, the Libraries Bruschi, Guerrazzi, Lercari, Palasciano, Servitano, Gallino and Cervetto. As for the underground, the two entrances to the Brignole metro station on Via Canevari, the elevators inside the Canevari metro station and the elevators from Piazza Raggi to Corso Montegrappa will remain closed until the end of the orange alert. The Brignole metro station will be accessible from piazza Raggi (Borgo Incrociati) and piazza Verdi from the normal entrances. The elevators of the underpass of the Sestri Ponente railway station, in via Puccini, and the elevator of Quezzi remain closed. A road collapses in Trieste The incessant rain has caused a collapse of a road between Via Cordaroli and Piazza Tra i Rivi in ​​Trieste. The section is closed to traffic Carpet of rubbish on the rocks at Fiumicino A carpet of waste. Alongside the erosion and damage caused to the bathing structures of Fregene sud and Focene, it is the other side of the signs that are leaving, even on the coast of Fiumicino, the repeated storms and the wave of bad weather. At the expense, and not the first time, the cliffs defending the built-up area of ​​Passo della Sentinella, at the mouth of the Tiber, and the old lighthouse, one of the symbols of Fiumicino. Piles of rubbish, carried away by the fury of the waves, even this imposing morning, they cover the rocks: logs, wood, plastic, tires, shoes, glass bottles, foam. Pollution, for the moment, is more limited on the beaches. Meanwhile, the municipal administration of Fiumicino, after asking the Region yesterday for the state of calamity for damage on the coast of Fregene and Focene, will convene an extraordinary municipal council on the now chronic problem of erosion. Forecasts: new cyclones coming up No sign of stopping the train of cyclones that for almost twenty days has been causing numerous waves of bad weather on Italy. Today, another vortex is expected, fed by cooler oceanic currents and driven by Scirocco winds that will bring bad weather to half the country. The North Ilmeteo.it forecasts that warn rains on the North in storms over Liguria and northern Piedmont. There will be snowfalls, still widespread throughout the Alps starting at around 1200 meters, locally at lower altitudes in south-western Piedmont and on the Ligurian mountains. In the Center-South Moving to the Center the storms will lash Tuscany and Lazio, as in Florence and Rome, in the morning also Sardinia. Bad weather will also reach the South where a strong thunderstorm will cross Sicily to then reach southern Calabria and then Salento. The cyclone arriving on the weekend Rains and thunderstorms will hit between Thursday and Friday on the Northwest and the Tyrrhenian regions. The team announces the arrival of another cyclone for the weekend, which should point to southern Italy, causing a violent wave of bad weather on Sicily and Calabria.