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October 4, 2020
mineral 10:21
Editorial team 3BMeteo
3 minutes, 38 seconds
DISASTER FLOODS IN THE NORTHWEST – Two victims, two more missing, numerous displaced, landslides and floods, collapsed bridges, canceled roads, hundreds of millions of euros in damages: the budget of theexceptional flooding that struck the northwest in the past 48 hours, striking with special violence theUpper Piedmont, he Cuneese, the Aosta Valley and part of Liguria. Under the influx of very wet and unstable currents from the Ligurian Sea, aggravated by the complex alpine orography and the effect stay, in the foothills the most affected areas have fallen 400 ai 600mm of rain in just 24 hours. Governors Alberto Cirio and Giovanni Toti signed the request for the State of calamity due to the enormous damage to the territory, which the mayors of the most affected areas describe in some of the worst cases in 1994, when the flood caused, however, 70 victims and 2,226 displaced people.
A Piedmontese lemon, in the province of Cuneo, on Saturday night theflood of the Vermenagna caused severe damage to homes and disrupted road connections; the level of water and mud has reached two meters. The overflow of a second stream caused the collapse of a ‘the whole house. The water pipes exploded and a chasm opened in the main street of the town. Even the cemetery of Stairs it was overwhelmed by the exceptional wave of bad weather: many graves were washed away by flooded rivers and washed downstream. In Liguria Damages are estimated to range between € 30 million and € 50 million only. Ventimiglia (primary): the fury of the river Roia has devastated the Squarciafichi footbridge, symbol of the city.
River and stream flooding overwhelmed numerous bridges, also of historical importance: in the Roya Valley, on the border between Italy and France, the 14-arch Romanesque bridge has partially collapsed. The bridge that connects Romagnano Sesia and Gattinara, a fundamental artery for direct traffic in Alta Valsesia, was also destroyed by the fury of the Sesia river. Confusion among local administrators: the section of the road had been reopened to traffic shortly before the collapse. Similar destination for the Lenzino bridge along the state road 45 of Alta Valtrebbia, in the Piacentino area.
There is also good news. After long searches, on Saturday night they were 21 of the 22 disappeared in the Col di Tenda were found in good health; a margaró is missing that fell with his car in a stream.
Reversals and storms in the center, hot records in Palermo – On Saturday, rains and precipitations, even in stormy conditions, hit the Alps and Pre-Alps of Lombardy and the upper Triveneto with rains of up to 120-140 mm and local hydrogeological criticalities. Rains and electrical storms also affected Tuscany, Umbria, Marche, Lazio and western Sardinia, although in a very limited way compared to the northern regions. It was also the day of exceptional heat and of fires in the Tyrrhenian sectors of Sicily, where maximum temperatures have reached peaks of 37-38 ° C: Under the pressure of strong Scirocco winds, the weather stations of Palermo Boccadifalco me Raisi Point they broke all October records dating back to 1999.
NEXT HOURS: IT’S NOT ENDED, NEW RAIN IS COMING – After a short dry and sunny breath, in the second part of the day a new Atlantic disturbance will arrive in Italy from the northwestern regions. Starting in the afternoon, the rains and showers, even thunderstorms, will get wet again Liguria, Piedmont me Lombardy, and then extend in the afternoon to Triveneto; Abundant rains are expected once again near the Alps and Pre-Alps, territorial areas already severely stressed from the hydrogeological point of view by the torrential rains of the last 72 hours. It will snow again in the Alps above 1800 meters.
Climatic conditions in decided deterioration even in Tuscany (even with intense thunderstorms in Lunigiana), Emilia, Umbria, part of Market and medium-high Lazio; some scattered and irregular rains will also affect the interior of Abruzzo and the Sardinia Northwest. Drier and sunnier conditions in the south, except for the passage of high and sterile stratiform clouds, in a mild thermal context and above the autumn averages.
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