The wave of bad weather continues on northern Italy, which according to Coldiretti has already caused
millions of euros in damage
in the countryside.
In Tuscany unstable weather conditions are expected due to cold air infiltrations, with possible thunderstorms that today will affect the Tuscan-Emilian Apennines, while from tomorrow afternoon, and until the early hours of the evening, they may become strong also in the inland areas of the region.
For this reason, the Operations Room of the Regional Civil Protection has issued a
yellow code
for severe thunderstorms valid from 12 to 20 tomorrow, Wednesday 6 July, for the whole of Tuscany with the exception of the coastal strip up to Versilia.
Yesterday afternoon, the strong wind and violent rainfall led to over 1,500 interventions carried out by the National Fire Brigade for felled trees, uprooted structures, collapses, widespread flooding and water damage.
The main criticalities in Emilia Romagna, particularly affected the provinces of Bologna, Modena, Parma, Reggio Emilia, Ferrara and Piacenza: 500 interventions carried out so far, teams at work.
ANSA agency
The wall of a stable collapses due to bad weather, one dead - Emilia-Romagna
The structure collapsed due to a violent whirlwind in the Piacentino area.
In Fiorenzuola damage to the hospital.
Damage and inconvenience also in the provinces of Parma, Modena, Bologna (ANSA)
Contrasting operations are still underway for damage caused by bad weather in Veneto, 250 interventions between the provinces of Rovigo, Vicenza, Verona and Padua, and in Lombardy, 200 interventions between Pavia, Cremona and Mantua.
In
Cremona
After an entire night in an emergency, with the firefighters who guaranteed more than one hundred interventions between the capital and the province, the damage count began.
And they are huge.
In addition to the dozens of fallen plants, many of them large and some collapsed on parked cars, the first inspections tell of uncovered roofs and damaged buildings.
Even the town hall of the city, inspected for a long time by firefighters after some bricks fell, is currently cordoned off both along the side streets and in the part facing the Cathedral: the risk is that other fragments may fall and the danger, of course, is that can hit passers-by.
On the other hand, the work of the firefighters in Piedmont (300 interventions) and in Liguria (150 interventions) ended during the night.
Coldiretti: "We are facing the consequences of climate change"
"Trees felled, floods devastated crops,
from vineyards to fruit, from vegetables to corn
, from wheat to fodder but also greenhouses and open roofs and walls of farmhouses demolished are the effects of the disturbance which - underlines Coldiretti - has suddenly stopped the heat and drought that is siege the northern regions ".
In Italy, the association argues, we are facing the consequences of climate change with the multiplication of extreme events and a tendency to tropicalization with a higher frequency of violent events, seasonal delays, short and intense rainfall.
The result, he concludes: "is an account for the