Italy remains in grips of severe weather. Mudslides and flooding reported in many places during the night and early on Sunday morning.
Ten elderly residents of a rest home in the Coronata district were evacuated and taken to hospital as a precautionary measure. Heavy snowfall above1,000m caused electricity and telephone blackouts in several places and roads had to be closed due to the risk of avalanches in the Piedmont region. A tufa wall measuring about 25metres in length collapsed in Via San Francesco di Sales, in the highly popular Trastevere area of Rome.