Rain, hail, lightning for 24 hours Trentino has been on “orange alert” millions of damages in the orchards of Val d’Adige



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The wave of bad weather continues in Trentino, with a stormy night, and the disturbance that will continue to affect our province.

When will it stop raining? On his Facebook page, the meteorology enthusiast Giacomo Poletti, our collaborator, analyzes the mathematical models as follows: “Intense showers, intermittent during the day. Between 17 and 20 new strong showers for the final step of the front. Afternoon therefore dry … The models see an extension of 40-50 mm especially in the central / southern province: there will be peaks of 70/80 mm in the southern Pre-Alps (eg Ledro / Alto Garda) “.

Yesterday was a day of alert and the damage caused by the hail storm in the Adige valley on Friday night has been counted. It was a deadly ten minutes. Friday night between Ravina, Romagnano, Aldeno, Cimone There was a violent wind, rain and hail storm that damaged 350 hectares of orchards and vineyards, 100 of which seriously. In 15 hectares the wind gusts, which exceeded 100 kilometers per hour, on a terrain already wet and hit by hail, literally uprooted the plants and demolished the anti-hail systems themselves. Damage is estimated at approx. 7 million euros.

The “yellow” weather alert it had been issued by Civil Protection but the wave of bad weather turned out to be much worse than expected. The affected apple trees and vineyards are full of fruit and close to harvest. The damage is enormous. In the affected area, says Codipra, the Consortium for the defense of agricultural producers, production is insured for 7 million euros, but the estimate of the damage is not yet complete.
Yesterday the weather alert has been raised to “orange” (second degree of three).

At night between Friday and Saturday and also between Saturday and Sunday there were numerous interventions by firefighters due to fallen trees on the road, flooding of basements and landslides caused by bad weather in various areas of Trentino, but luckily there are no counts. hurt people.

And lightning in a control unit would be the cause of the blocking of a regional train on the Brenner line. The convoy, stopped due to a breakdown, had to be evacuated. The train stopped about 200 meters from the Gardolo volunteer fire department, which assisted the passengers. Six people in total who were in the convoy and who, escorted by firefighters, crossed the tracks – illuminated by the brigade’s headlights – and reached the underpass at the height of the former Laverda. The passengers here found a bus that took them to the station. Technicians from the State Railways intervened to restore the electricity supply.

By one landslide, always happened between Friday and Saturday, it was instead Provincial Highway 18 connecting Lon and Ranzo is closed. Some boulders fell on the road and the Vezzano volunteer firefighters as well as the personnel of the Road Management Service, as well as a geologist, intervened. Yesterday morning and a good part of the afternoon, therefore, the only way to go down to the valley was to use the old forest path that, from Ranzo, leads to Castel Toblino. The provincial highway was reopened shortly after 4.30 pm, upon completion of the rock removal and security measures on the wall.

The wave of bad weather also continued yesterday. In the afternoon, in particular, they were about fifty interventions by firefighters to remove fallen plants or for small floods. And even today wind, rain and hail are expected: a possible emergency situation that continues until midnight today. “Even this phase – Civil Protection highlights – will be accompanied by heavy rain and thunderstorms which could determine precipitation intensities greater than 20 millimeters per hour. The accumulated rain forecast for the entire duration of the event will be around 70 – 100 mm on average, up to 150 mm in the southern and western sectors, with locally higher peaks.

Therefore, hail, thunderstorms, and possible landslides are expected. Therefore, the invitation is reduce travel as much as possible and, if they are unavoidable, “pay maximum attention to the places traveled, avoiding approaching watercourses, depressed areas (basins and underpasses), as well as ramps and slopes that may suffer landslides”.



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