• Bad weather, still thunderstorms and gale winds in the central north
  • Bad weather, isolated large areas of South Tyrol

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November 16, 2019The disturbance that struck Friday in Trentino ended in the night. A blackout caused by snow has left 60,000 users without light during the night, and in the morning 13,000 people were without electricity, most of them in the Castelrotto area. The Brenner railway was blocked by a landslide and many valleys closed. On Saturday morning, the situation was reviewed at the Civil Protection Operations Room in Trento.

Hundreds of men are at work to restore ordinary roads, where interrupted, and to monitor electricity networks, waterways and dams, which at the moment are not particularly worrying.
The most critical conditions are recorded in Val di Sole, in Val di Fassa and above all in Val di Non, where the snow has fallen the most and where the danger of falling trees is particularly strong, in the area of ​​Taio in particular. The road leading to the Tonale has been reopened by Ponte di Legno while it remains closed by the Trentino side.

Trentino weather has announced that from 22:00 on Saturday and until 12 on Sunday new heavy rainfall is expected, more abundant in the east, attenuating from Sunday afternoon.

The Civil Protection invites the population to reduce travel and the Fire Brigade also remembers the importance of verifying, to avoid the risk of fire, that the chimney flues are not blocked by snow.

Red alert in Pordenone
The Vice President of the Friuli Venezia Giulia Region, with responsibility for Civil Protection, Riccardo Riccardi announces that a warning of a red alert will be issued shortly in the province of Pordenone for hydrogeological risk. At 6.30 pm the Crisis Committee was summoned to the Palmanova Civil Protection Operations Center.