• Storms in Turin and Milan with strong gusts of wind. Alert first to the north and then to the center

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30 August 2020Italy divided in two, with storms and floods in the north and scorching heat and fires in the south. Bad weather is hitting the northern areas, a new red alert has been launched for Lombardy, orange in five other regions. While in the south high temperatures and the sirocco wind.

A missing person in the Varese area
A man overwhelmed by a flood in the Varese area, another drowned in the stormy sea, a seventeen year old injured by the wave of a roof detached from a tornado in Genoa, people stuck in a flooded church on the shores of Lake Orta, the patients of a nursing home in Milan transferred because the roof was uncovered during the night due to the wind and rain, the passengers of a train blocked on the Brenner line evacuated to Trentino: these are just some of the damage caused from the continuous waves of bad weather that have hit all the northern regions since yesterday and are showing no signs of stopping. 

In fact, the alert remains high due to rain, hail and landslides on the day of the counter-exodus in which queues and slowdowns were recorded for those returning from holidays.