Bad weather today, improves in the North. Flooding in Rome and Naples. Water bomb in Palermo
Rome, 5 October 2021 – Bad weather is moving south, with flooding in Palermo, and Naples with transport haywire. In Sicily water bomb in Palermo and diverted flights. Intense rains also in Agrigento and Trapani. Improvements in the North instead. This morning in Liguria the weather warning ceased early because the acute phase of precipitation eased. The situation is also clearly improving in Piedmont and Veneto, where the weather conditions, and the sea level, do not activate of the Moses system in Venice. But now to worry it is the level of the Po, which has risen nearly 3 meters in the last 24 hours as a result of yesterday’s heavy rain wave.
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The Civil Protection has issued a further warning of adverse weather conditions with precipitation conditions with a prevalent reverse or thunderstorm character in any case on Piedmont, Lombardy, Emilia-Romagna, Tuscany and Veneto. The risk of severe thunderstorms and hail remains, as the alert for the rivers rises and the waves of floods that will pour downstream.
Orange alert instead it is launched for the Autonomous Province of Trento and on parts of Lombardy, Piedmont, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Liguria, Tuscany and Sicily; yellow alert on the Autonomous Province of Bolzano, on Veneto, on Lazio, Umbria, Campania, on part of Valle d’Aosta, Emilia-Romagna, Abruzzo, Basilicata, Calabria and Molise and on the remaining territories of Friuli Venezia Giulia, Lombardy, Piedmont, Liguria, Tuscany and Sicily.
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In Rome the heavy rain last season forced the local police to carry out some interventions: some areas were made safe, with temporary closure of roads in one night due to flooding and falling branches and trees. Most important interventions in the areas of Castel Fusano, Primavalle, in particular Via Pietro Bembo. Also via Guglielmo Marconi, height via C. Colombo, Via delle Vigne, Via Roberto Marcolongo, Via Don Primo Mazzolari, Via Clivo di Scauro, Via delle Fornaci and Via Appia Pignatelli.
In the suspended night also the rail traffic on the Rome-Naples line, via Formia (Fl7) in the section between Rome Casilina and Latina, and on the Rome-Nettuno line (Fl8) between Rome Casilina and Nettuno, for damage caused by lightning it caused the fire of a cable cabin near Torricola, with consequent damage to train traffic systems.
Fall of high voltage cables in the area of Civitavecchia due to heavy rainfall. In via Tirso the local firefighters intervened at 00.30.
In Naples heavy rainfall caused the flooding of a railway section: departures were canceled and delays were inevitable. The greatest difficulties for commuters who use the Circumvesuviana trains. The circulation on the Pompei sanctuary-Poggiomarino section is interrupted. The trains scheduled from Poggiomarino depart from Pompeii.
Orange alert for the weather also in Sicily: in Palermo this morning a water bomb created severe inconvenience in various areas of the Sicilian capital. Interventions for flooding especially in the seaside village of Mondello. Four flights arriving at the ‘Falcone-Borsellino’ airport were diverted: three to Catania and one to Cagliari. State road 121 ‘Catanese’ is provisionally closed from km 218 to km 219, in Mezzojuso (Palermo), to allow Enel to carry out an urgent intervention for a sheared electrical cable.
In Sciacca (Agrigento) the municipal administration asked school managers, given the very heavy rains, to underestimate the possibility of “keeping pupils in class until the weather improves”. In Trapani the municipal waste collection center on the Dante Alighieri seafront in Trapani is closed due to an electrical fault caused by bad weather.
But the weather situation will worsen: until tomorrow the Center-North will still be the most affected by rainfall at times abundant, especially in the Alpine, Pre-Alpine and Apennine sectors. Then from Thursday it will be formed a Mediterranean cyclone coming from the northeast it will move southwards passing through the Tyrrhenian Sea. At the risk of storms and floods will initially be the lower Veneto and Emilia Romagna, then the central-southern Adriatic regions from Abruzzo to Puglia and Campania. A sharp drop in temperatures is also expected in all regions, even by 10 degrees.
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