As of: February 29, 2024, 7:20 p.m
By: Martina Lippl
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Storms wash away Italy's beach on the Adriatic.
The seaside resort of Jesolo is hit particularly hard again.
© Screenshot Facebook/ Federconsorzi Arenili Lido di Iesolo
Low pressure vortices are currently causing extreme weather in Italy.
The damage to popular beaches is enormous.
Jesolo – An Adriatic low brought masses of snow to the Alps.
It poured for hours on the Adriatic coast in Italy.
The bad weather particularly affected the popular holiday resort of Jesolo.
Storm surge and winds caused severe damage to the sandy beach.
Storms rage in Italy – two kilometers of beach on the Adriatic coast in Jesolo have disappeared
In Jesolo Pineta, thousands of cubic meters of sand were washed into the sea over a two-kilometer stretch.
Violent gusts of wind and two-meter-high waves left their mark, reports the Italian daily
Il Gazzettinio
.
According to initial estimates, 5,000 cubic meters of sand have disappeared.
This time the “Scirocco” (southeast wind) mixed with the “Libeccio” (southwest wind).
“The gusts hit the beach head-on and not sideways as usual,” said Antonio Facco, president of the Jesolo
Federconsori Arenili
beach association , according to the newspaper.
In the next few days the sand will probably be reclaimed when the tide goes out.
The sand wouldn't have been transported so far away.
“The problem is not so much the damage that occurred this time, but rather that it happens again and again.
All it takes is a little sirocco and the beach is affected again,” said Alberto Maschio, beach manager for the municipality of Jesolo, to the private television station
Antenna Tre Veneto
.
Italian seaside resort Jesolo wants to save sandy beach
The holiday resort wants to protect its beach from erosion in the future.
567,500 euros will be available for this in 2024, reports the beach association on its Facebook page.
New sand is to be brought into the area to restore the coast.
Just last summer, storms also raged on the Adriatic.
In autumn a huge waterspout swept over Tuscany.
During the devastating floods in spring 2023, many regions on the Adriatic coast were on red alert.
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According to meteorologists' forecasts, the bad weather phase in Italy will last until the beginning of March.
In the Alps, weather experts are again expecting heavy snowfall, sometimes below 1000 meters.
Rainfall with hail, thunderstorms and strong gusts of wind are also expected again in Veneto.
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