Milan, snow and wind. Wave of bad weather also in much of Lombardy. Take the emergency plan – Corriere.it

Observed weather forecasts. It’s snowing, sometimes even intensely, in Milan and in part of Lombardy. In fact, the wave of bad weather hit at night and in the early hours of Monday especially in the western part of the region, affecting not only the capital but also the provinces of Pavia, Lodi, Varese, Como, Lecco, Bergamo, Brescia, Cremona. The emergency plan envisaged by the City Council was launched immediately in Milan. To cope with the arrival of rainfall, the first salt spreaders intervened. In the city snow measures between 5 and 10 centimeters, with the main roads swept but many others, the secondary ones, still covered with snow. For the moment, apart from some disturbances to circulation, there are no particular alarm situations. Public transport runs regularly and the arteries that lead to the city are also accessible.

In recent days, during a meeting scheduled by Palazzo Marino, pending the arrival of bad weather, it was broadcast to the administrators of the condominium the notice to sprinkle salt on the parts of streets and sidewalks in front of private buildings and to provide for snow removal in case of heavy rain.

Snowplows and salt spreaders have been in action since dawn in Valtellina and Valchiavenna, hit by a strong wave of bad weather with heavy snowfall even at the bottom of the valley. The capital, Sondrio, woke up in the snow. Several alpine passes are closed or can only be covered with mounted chains. The fear now, in addition to the one linked to the passability of the roads, in particular those of the villages in the middle of the mountain, also of a possible exodus to the bottom of the valley of herds of deer and chamois to look for food and overcome the frosts of the night . Snow also in the interior of Liguria up to the coasts of Savona and Genoa.

Bad weather will tend to move to the southern regions with thunderstorms in Campania. The rains also reach Sardinia and central regions with possible intense phenomena in the Tyrrhenian sectors; the altitude of the snow increases from 800-1000 meters in the morning to 1200-1400 meters in the afternoon. The bad weather will continue in the coming days, when new arctic impulses are expected with abundant snow in the mountainous sectors and new possibilities for the plains. There are a few days until the end, but the models seem to be quite in agreement with the meteorological evolution for New Year’s Eve 2021. The Azores anticyclone could once again extend along the parallels pointing towards Iceland with pressure values above ground up to 1030 hPa. Instead, a vast depressive circulation would remain active over Europe and fed by cold air of Arctic origin. Precisely on the morning of New Year, explains the Italian Meteorological Center, a new disturbed impulse could arrive in Italy, causing a worsening of the weather, especially in the north and central regions of the Tyrrhenian. Once again, the snow could reach the Po Valley, especially the western sectors.