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Bad weather in Italy, temperatures plummeting

2023-01-22T15:01:56.393Z


Yellow warning in nine regions. Avalanche danger in the Lombardy Alps. Alarm for the strong wind in Emilia Romagna. 400 evacuated to Casamicciola on Ischia (ANSA)


Snow, rain and frost in Italy.

Yellow alert for bad weather today in Abruzzo, Basilicata, Campania, Calabria, Emilia Romagna, Marche, Molise, Puglia and Umbria.

CAMPANIA -

The continuation of adverse weather conditions, which led to the issuing of a yellow alert,

will mean yet another day away from homes for the 400 citizens of Casamicciola who live in areas at hydrogeological risk.

In practice, their evacuation began on Tuesday and with the succession of weather alerts they have not yet been able to return home;

for tomorrow the Casamicciolese prefectural commissioner Simonetta Calcaterra has issued a new ordinance which, as a result of the alert, provides that until midnight tomorrow evening the inhabitants of the houses that fall within the defined areas A4 and D according to the mapping carried out after the November flood they will have to stay in hotels or in independent accommodation.

For the inhabitants of the lower risk areas, B and C, the indications are to avoid travelling, not to park along the streets and avoid stopping in basements or ground floor rooms.

ANSA Agency

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Falling temperatures also in the South and lots of snow along the Apennine ridge.

(HANDLE)

SICILY

- After more than 40 hours, maritime connections with almost all the islands of the Aeolian archipelago, interrupted due to bad weather, have resumed

.

At the moment the only one to be isolated is the small fraction of

Ginostra, on the island of Stromboli.

A line vehicle has not landed in the village since last Monday.

The improvement in weather conditions gives hope that it can be reached in the next few hours.

The first vehicle to reach the islands was a hydrofoil, which departed from Milazzo at 7 am.

EMILIA ROMAGNA

- Local police, municipal civil protection and Geat (environmental and territorial services management) are at work in Riccione to deal with the damage caused by strong gusts of wind and rain.

However, the Municipality makes it known that no particular criticalities have been found.

Already from the early hours of the morning the local police intervened to secure Viale Saluzzo where a tree fell on the road.

Even in the parking lot in front of the station, a large pine tree fell in the garden of a private house, causing no damage to people.

Another pine tree fell on the skating rink in viale Milano.

In viale Orazio, a part of the tree fell on a vehicle belonging to a social cooperative which was cleaning it up: also in this case no injuries were found.

In viale Dante, on the port, the wind has overturned the writing "

LOMBARDY

- The latest bulletin from the Arpa Lombardia Regional Snow and Weather Center, based in Bormio, warns that

off-piste skiing is absolutely to be avoided due to the risk of avalanches

.

The danger index is 3 on a European scale of five rungs.

"It will be necessary to pay attention to the numerous fragile wind slabs of old and recent formation - the experts explain - both soft and compact, which can be located above all in morphological depressions, basins, gullies and leeward depressions" because "they could be triggered already with a low overload. of cohesive and hard slabs, the propagation of the fracture could be fast, going to affect extended areas. On the more shady slopes, where the triggering could involve deeper layers in the old snow, the avalanches could be larger. natural avalanches of surface slabs".

The minimum temperatures in the Alpi Retiche and Alpi Orobie mountains could be between -15 and -25.

TUSCANY

- More bad weather in Tuscany, where rain is expected on the plains and snow on the hills and mountains from today's afternoon, Sunday 22 January.

In particular, from today's afternoon, Sunday, until tomorrow's early afternoon, Monday 23 January, there will be scattered snowfalls of weak or moderate intensity on the hilly reliefs (over 400 metres), more insistent on the Apennine areas.

The operations room of the regional civil protection has therefore issued a yellow code for snow, valid until 3 pm tomorrow: the eastern Apennine side and the south-east of the region are especially interested.

The provinces involved are Arezzo, Florence, Pistoia, Prato, Grosseto and Siena.

ANSA Agency

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(HANDLE)

Source: ansa

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