Liguria (Photo Ansa)
Bad weather, the great cold arrives.
Rain and snow over half of Italy
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December 27, 2020 Yellow alert for bad weather today the seven regions of Italy: Abruzzo, Basilicata, Calabria, Marche, Molise, Puglia and Sicily.
In the North, good weather is expected with very cold weather in the morning, then worsening in the afternoon in the Northwest with snow in the plains.
In the Center good weather with partly cloudy skies, cold winds and night frosts.
Unstable weather in the South.
In Liguria also orange alert
Bad weather arrives at night in Liguria, a region that will be affected by a first phase with rains, thunderstorms, snow even near the coast, temperature drop with discomfort from cold and possible frostbite, strong winds and intense sea storms.
Arpal has issued the alert for tomorrow which will be yellow due to thunderstorms in the central-eastern part of Liguria from midnight to 8 am.
Also alert for the snow that will be yellow in the Ligurian West from midnight to 12, while in the inner areas of the Center it will first be yellow from midnight to 2 and then turn orange until 8 tomorrow and return to yellow until 12.
Yellow alert for snow also on coastal municipalities.
In the western and eastern Po Valley areas, the snow alert will be yellow from 10pm today until 2am, then orange until 8am and yellow until 12 noon tomorrow.
Heavy snowfalls expected in northern Italy
The cold Arctic air that has been affecting the northern part of the Peninsula for days and a new Atlantic perturbation from France will cause abundant and extensive snowfalls at motorway altitudes expected over much of the north of the country, up to Monday evening 28 December.
In particular, snowfalls are expected along the motorway sections of Liguria, Piedmont, Lombardy, Emilia, Veneto and Friuli, involving about 1000 km of the network managed by ASPI. To cope with the weather situation, Autostrade per l'Italia will activate the own operational machine, providing for the use of about 800 vehicles and about 1200 resources engaged in anti-snow operations.
Campania: wind alert
The Civil Protection of the Campania Region has issued a weather alert for strong or very strong winds valid from 6 am to 9 pm tomorrow. In fact, "strong or very strong south-western winds are expected throughout the region with gusts and rough or locally very rough sea, with possible storm surges along the exposed coasts.
Part of a bell tower
collapses
in Salento
Bad weather caused the collapse of a portion of the bell tower of the church of the Santissimo Sacramento, in Supersano (Lecce), with the consequent detachment of some parts of the tuff blocks from the top of the artifact. The fragments that fell to the ground, on the road in front, did not cause damage to people or things, also because the collapse took place in the early hours of this morning, when the the center of the village was still deserted. Firefighters intervened to secure the bell tower, while the local police took steps to cordon off the area
the falling fragments.
Lightning may have caused the detachment of the tuffs.
The whole of Salento, as well as the whole of Puglia, in these hours is affected by a wave of bad weather with strong winds and widespread rains that have triggered the Yellow alert for hydrogeological risk.