- Bad weather. Situation still critical in Campania. Tilt traffic in Florence due to heavy rains
- Bad weather. Liguria, after the rain it is feared by storms and strong winds
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11 November 2019A new disturbance from Africa affects the southern regions of Italy today, bringing rain, strong winds and storm surges. It is an orange alert in Sicily, Calabria and Basilicata. Schools closed today in Crotone, Catanzaro and other Calabrian municipalities. Yesterday first snow on the Sila. Huge damage to crops in Salento due to hail.Orange alert
The Sicilian Regional Civil Protection has issued an alert of orange alert for the weather-hydrogeological and hydraulic risk, valid until 24 today. For today, rainfall is expected "scattered from late morning, tending to become more widespread and persistent in the second part of the day with particularly intense thunderstorms on the ionic slopes and generally high on the remaining eastern areas and on the southern and western sectors; reverse or temporal character on the remaining areas with generally moderate cumulative quantities "; winds from strong to stormy south-east, with strong gusts of storm especially from the afternoon on the ionic and tirrenici sectors "and very" wavy seas, tending to agitated, the southern Tyrrhenian and the Ionian ".
Strong inconveniences also in Rome, where flooding, road and tunnel closures and accidents once again sent the capital's traffic into a tailspin.
Forecasts for the coming days
Bad weather continues to grip our country and from the latest international weather modeling this situation does not seem to have a way out at least until the end of the month. The team of the site www.iLMeteo.it warns that in the next seven days Italy will be reached by two cyclonic vortices that will activate intense currents of Scirocco, Libeccio and Maestrale. Opportunities for heavy or very heavy rainfall will not be expected from Monday. On Tuesday the bad weather will slowly leave the South and then head off to Lazio, Tuscany and then the Northeast with other strong rains and possible storms in Rome, Grosseto, Bologna, Verona, Padua. The snow will fall copious and abundant over the Alps above 1000-1200 meters, locally even at lower altitudes. High water will return to Venice with an expected tide of 125 cm.