• Bad weather Liguria: rivers flood, a woman injured in a landslide, but the alert is passing
  • Bad weather, 120 families evacuated and schools closed in the Salerno area
  • Bad weather. It gives way to Salerno. Landslides, floods and landslides in Tuscany and Lazio
  • Bad weather. Critical situation in Liguria: overflow the Petronio stream

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November 04, 2019The bad weather alert for Italy continues today: it will be orange in Liguria, Emilia-Romagna and Calabria; yellow instead in Veneto, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Umbria, Lazio, Abruzzo, Molise, Campania, Basilicata, Puglia and Sicily. Schools closed in Salerno and Sestri Levante, in Liguria as a precaution.



Liguria. Fear of storm surges and strong winds
After the rain that poured into Liguria for hours , after the rainfall alert phase, now the eyes are focused on the sea: intense storms are expected for today all over the coast from Ventimiglia to Sarzana with waves over 4 , 5 meters. The one expected could be "an intense event", the Ligurian governor Toti said yesterday, but not the proportions of the 2018 storm. As explained by Arpal, the regional Environmental Agency, in recent hours intense gusts of wind have touched the 166 kilometers per hour at Giacopiane, at Casoni di Suvero 156 kilometers per hour and at Fontana Fresca 103 while the swell has been increasing since yesterday, which already in the evening has exceeded 3 meters of height and 8 seconds of period, the 'interval between one wave and another, while the peak could arrive today afternoon.

In Genoa, following the notice issued by the functional Civil Protection Center of the Region, the ordinance n. 9 of 18 January 2017 which contains security measures to protect public safety. In particular the closure of the public accesses to the sea and to the cliffs of the municipal territory is established until the need has ceased, the observance of the rules of maximum caution when approaching the coast or along the coastal roads, both on foot, is prepared for all citizens. that when driving a vehicle, avoid stopping on the coast, on coastal roads, and even more so on piers and jetties; follow the instructions provided by the authorities, avoid bathing and the use of boats and ensure the safety of the boats and structures present on the beaches and in the port areas, ensuring, by ensuring or removing from the areas exposed to the storm, all the objects that can be invested from the storm and that can damage the safety of people (mobile structures, especially those that provide for the presence of sheets or tents, scaffolding, gazebos, temporary display or commercial structures).

In Campania the greatest rainfall hit the Casertano and Salernitano areas with peaks of up to 140-150 mm of rainfall in less than 12 hours. In the catchment area of ​​Sarno and Salernitano there have been floods in Castel San Giorgio (severe inconvenience in the locality of Santa Croce), San Marzano sul Sarno (overflow of the Sarno river at Via Marconi), Nocera Superiore, Nocera Inferiore. In Corbara, in the province of Salerno, a piece of road has collapsed a few meters from the town and transit to the Tir has been forbidden. Other flooding and landslides in the province of Avellino, in the municipalities of Montoro Superiore and Inferiore, Solofra, Serino, Santo Stefano del Sole and Santa Lucia di Serino where widespread flooding is recorded, a risk of flooding that could affect two valleys and a flow of mud (two houses are isolated).

In Naples, discomforts in the Soccavo and Fuorigrotta neighborhoods. In Casertano there were problems with Francolise due to the flooding of the Rio Savona, Cellole and Sessa Aurunca. In the Sannio a strong gust of wind has knocked down a scaffolding mounted outside the church in Montesarchio. In Naples there were delays and cancellations in the service of the Circumvesuviana with the Pompei-Poggiomarino route temporarily interrupted.

In Tuscany, the Pisa fire brigade carried out around thirty flooding operations and unsafe trees. In Lombardy it snowed at Passo Gavia and Stelvio with the roads passable only with mounted chains and the Presena glacier, where they fell about twenty centimeters.

In Rome there were about fifty interventions of the Civil Protection after a severe storm, in many cases due to fallen branches that obstructed the roads. The Cassia bis has been closed for a few hours in the direction of the capital for the fall of a tree to the tenth kilometer. In Sicily 11 families were evacuated following a landslide in Sant'Angelo Muxaro, in the province of Agrigento.