• Bad weather, the great cold arrives.

    Rain and snow over half of Italy

  • Bad weather, the Municipality of Naples closes city parks and cemeteries

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January 10, 2021 The wave of bad weather coming from the Mediterranean is making itself felt.

Yellow alert in ten regions of Italy.

Rain and snow above 500-800 meters in Abruzzo, Molise, in the eastern areas of Lazio, in Umbria, Emilia-Romagna and Tuscany.

Here the snow has whitened the Apennines, in Chianti and in Val d'Elsa, in the province of Florence.

Civil protection is intervening with snow sweeping vehicles.

Thunderstorms with lightning and violent gusts of wind in Basilicata and Campania.



Landslides in Irpinia


An entire municipality is without gas in Irpinia due to a landslide that broke the main pipeline of the methane gas distribution network in Montefalcone in Val Fortore.

The technicians are at work but it is feared that the weather will deteriorate. 



Umbria a family trapped by the snow


Gusts of wind and snow blocked a family of 5 including 2 children in the area of ​​Monte Cucco, in Umbria, to free them from the firefighters with a snowplow.



Landslides in Foggia


State road 90 "delle Puglie" in the province of

Foggia is

closed, where the ground has slipped, investing the entire carriageway.

Traffic diverted.



Coldiretti 


In the month of January in Italy, 13 particularly strong meteorological events were calculated with hailstorms, tornadoes, avalanches and lightning storms.

The examination is by Coldiretti on data from the European severe weather database (ESWD).

Bad weather has hit a patchwork of patches along the entire peninsula, causing damage to cities and countryside but also victims.

The effects - underlines Coldiretti - are felt with flooded cultivated land, uprooted plants, stables, fields buried by snow.