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by Tiziana Di Giovannandrea November 15, 2019The adverse weather conditions affecting Italy, impacting the various areas of the country, could determine new hydrogeological and hydraulic problems.

For this reason, the Civil Protection Department has issued a red alert for Veneto Central-Northern Italy and an orange alert for the province of Bolzano, for some sectors of the Veneto region, western Friuli Venezia Giulia, central-southern Lazio, on the western side of the Abruzzo, on Umbria, on part of Molise.

Yellow alert on the Province of Trento, on the remaining Veneto, on eastern Friuli, on Emilia Romagna, Tuscany, Marche, on the rest of Lazio, Abruzzo and Molise, on north-western Campania, on south-eastern Calabria and on north-eastern Sicily.

The Atlantic perturbation that is affecting Italy with conditions of general bad weather and widespread rainfall, including thunderstorms, on the central-northern regions, in extension to the southern ones will also involve a substantial reinforcement of the southern winds.

The violent wave of bad weather has caused damage and very great hardships throughout Italy.

A failure on the Rome-Naples High Speed line has severely slowed the rail traffic since 3.35pm. The cause is a failure of the train circulation systems between Ceccano and San Giovanni, probably linked to the bad weather that is affecting the area. This was reported in a Rfi statement. Consequently, High Speed ​​trains travel on conventional lines via Formia and via Cassino with delays of up to 70 minutes. Four trains directly involved in the fault travel with average delays of 150 minutes. Repercussions and cancellations also for some regional transport trains. The Italian Railway Network technicians, who immediately intervened, are working to restore the full functionality of the infrastructure.

Also due to bad weather, the mayor of Perugia decided to keep the schools closed.

Meanwhile, the Minister of Agricultural, Food and Forestry Policies and Tourism Teresa Bellanova has announced that the government is ready to declare a state of disaster for the southern regions if the request arrives. So far it has been decided for Veneto because it was the only region to ask.
"Last night in the Council of Ministers we declared a state of calamity for Veneto and I believe that the disaster that is happening in Venice is under everyone's eyes but we could have done it because the Veneto Region had already asked yesterday. the declaration of the state of calamity As soon as it arrives, as we agreed in the Council of Ministers, the request of the state of calamity of other regions, based on the indications that we will also be given by the Civil Protection, we will provide. arrived declaration of state of calamity from no other region ".