Bad weather hits Italy: rain, wind and snow



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If schools open in Naples on Monday, they will be closed in Baronissi (Salerno) and Bacoli (Naples). The Agro Nocerino Sarnese is in fact underwater: several damages for some farms that are still flooded. Bad weather uprooted plants, uprooted greenhouses, flooded open field productions.

Fear in Sarno The evacuation of some families from Sarno was triggered by landslides on Sunday afternoon that swept mud and debris downstream. Hundreds of people who have left their homes as a precaution. Mayor Giuseppe Canfora immediately launched the rescue machine, coordinated by the Municipal Operations Center and which sees the police, civil protection and local police in the field. The alarm went off around 5 p.m. after heavy rains in the Salerno province. In Sarno, a municipality that was hit by a tragic landslide in 1998, rain caused landslides that came downstream from a hill recently affected by a major fire.

The forecast for the next few hours Civil Protection has made it known that from Sunday afternoon it is possible that there will be widespread rains, even very intense and accompanied by hail, lightning and strong gusts of wind, in Emilia-Romagna and Veneto. Storm winds are also expected in Abruzzo, Molise, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Veneto and Emilia-Romagna. From early Monday the rains will affect Sardinia, southern Lazio, Campania, Basilicata and Calabria.

First snowflakes In some places the first white flakes have also appeared: snow and temperatures close to zero in Monte Bove and in the upper Valle di Bove (Macerata). Snow out of season also in Maremma, on Mount Amiata where on Sunday morning a blanket of about 15 centimeters covers the top. Cold in Umbria with the first snowfall at Mount Carrier.

Heavy rains in central Italy In Rome, the intense rain caused flooding of streets, chasms, closed roads, drains and clogged manholes and the Regional Civil Protection predicts rainfall for the next 18-24 hours; heavy rains even in Tuscany; The weather alert in Campania has also been extended for Monday.



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