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October 28, 2021A force seven storm from the East is beating the Strait of Sicily. The Air Force reports. There are isolated thunderstorms with gusts of wind on the Strait of Sicily and the Southern Tyrrhenian West. The coastal regions lashed by bad weather are western Sicily and eastern Sardinia. Thunderstorms and strong winds are expected in the southern Ionian, west central Tyrrhenian, Sardinia channel. It is the weather report, which looks more like war, which has been affecting the south of Italy for days, especially Sicily. The "Mediterranean cyclone", or "Medicane", has already caused two deaths, while one person is still missing. The damage is enormous. According to Coldiretti this year the damage to agriculture has already exceeded two billion.



 The expert


The vortex that is being created in the open sea between Sicily and Malta according to "the last available trajectory, even if we hope it changes, says it will impact on the southern coasts of Sicily around Friday". Mario Marcello Miglietta, researcher at Isac Cnr, expert in cyclones, told 'La Repubblica', adding that "at the moment it is a hybrid, with characteristics similar to tropical ones", but it is intensifying and "could do damage like Ionas , the medicane who hit Greece last year with winds at 180 kilometers per hour ". The future of the Sicilian and Calabrian coasts depends on "high altitude currents and on the set of phenomena that could change their predicted trajectory", a possibility, adds Antonello Pasini, Cnr climate physicist, "remote". "Until a few days ago what hit Catania and Sicily was a strong stationary depression - he explains - but not a tropical cyclone ".



The cyclone 


Between today and Friday, however, a medicane, or a tropical cyclone, will probably form in the southeast of Sicily.

Unfortunately, the models show us that this phenomenon compared to where it is now - due to winds and currents - is heading towards the northwest and pointing towards Sicily and Calabria.

These cyclones - continues Pasini - have a warm heart and bring very strong gusts, clouds full of rain that expand even hundreds of kilometers away and winds over 100-120 kilometers per hour: tomorrow for the southeast coast of Sicily it will be a field day , with very heavy floods, and waves of up to 4 or 5 meters could be created ».