There are more than 1,000 rescue interventions carried out by the firefighters due to the bad weather that has been affecting Northern Italy and the Tyrrhenian side of the peninsula since yesterday.
Lombardy, Emilia-Romagna, Tuscany, Umbria, Lazio and Campania are particularly involved.
This is what we read in a statement from the National Corps.
In Lombardy, in the provinces of Varese and Como, interventions for felled trees and static instability are continuing, 200 relief efforts have been made.
In Emilia Romagna 120 interventions by the fire brigade between Parma and Reggio Emilia.
Due to the strong wind in the Perugia area, 150 interventions were made due to bad weather.
In the late evening of yesterday a tornado hit the area of Cecina and Rosignano (LI) causing damage to the roofs of several houses.
Also in Rome, due to strong gusts of wind, 140 interventions were made for felled trees and static instability.
In Campania, Salerno and Naples hit by bad weather: 230 interventions between the regional capital and Salerno hit by a whirlwind that mainly affected the eastern area.
40 interventions by the fire brigade in the Potentino
- There were about 40 interventions that the fire brigade made from yesterday evening to this morning, throughout the province of Potenza, due to the bad weather that has been affecting the Lucanian territory for about 24 hours, with strong wind and heavy rain at times.
The fire brigade intervened for flooding, trees felled on the roads, roofs and billboards torn up: seven teams, seven fire engines and seven off-road vehicles operated: in total 35 units.
Snow on Colle Agnello, pass closed until Monday
- Colle dell'Agnello, a cross-border crossing between the province of Cuneo and the French Queyras, is closed due to bad weather.
The provision was decided by the Province of Cuneo in agreement with the Hautes Alpes Conseil General Direction Des Routes, Des Transports department which manages the French sector of the Colle.
The road, which climbs up to 2744 meters (the third highest pass in Europe) will remain closed until 12 noon on Monday 28 September.
The hill has been whitewashed since yesterday and the snowploughs are in action.
The nineteenth stage of the Giro d'Italia, the Busca-Sestriere, is scheduled to pass at the Colle dell'Agnello on Saturday 24 October.
First snow on the Parma Apennines, wind damage
- The wind was the number one enemy in the province of Parma in the latest weather alert reported by the Civil Protection.
The precipitations were not of a violent nature even if the first snow fell during the night on the Apennine passes: about five centimeters above 900 meters.
Throughout the province, however, the firefighters and technicians of the municipal administrations had to intervene for dozens of broken branches but also for several trees that fell to the ground.
The most serious episode in the park of the Citadel in Parma where a large plant fell into a meadow without luckily hitting people or things.
Snow on Cortina mountains and first cold in the plains
- A taste of winter on the mountains of Veneto, with the snow that made its appearance last night in Cortina and more consistently on the Dolomite passes.
A few centimeters thick on the passes, such as Falzarego, and a thermometer below zero.
The peaks of the Ampezzo valley appear all white, a consequence of the cold eruption that accompanied yesterday's bad weather in Veneto.
Even in the cities of the plains, the temperature change was sudden: the minimums fell close to 10 degrees, for what is the first cold episode of the new season.
True cold instead in the mountains: Cortina recorded 2 degrees, values of 4-5 degrees below zero at altitude.
No snow but a strong hail on the Asiago plateau.
The farmers - explains Coldiretti - were not taken aback by the autumn turnaround, and in the mountain areas where the snow arrived today they had already provided for the transhumance of the cattle in time, freeing the huts and returning to the farms.
