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An intense Mediterranean cyclone is unraveling its effects in the Ionian Sea that is affecting part of southern Italy, especially Calabria, with rains and storms. In the lower area of Crotone there is already 100 millimeters of rain, while waves of up to 2-3 meters high reach the Ionian shores. This was announced by Edoardo Ferrara, meteorologist at 3bmeteo.com, explaining that the cyclone is intensifying more at this time and will have its peak tomorrow in Greece, where torrential rains and gusts of wind of more than 160 kilometers per hour are expected. During the weekend, the sun will return everywhere, with temperatures up to August levels.
Bad weather especially rages at Isola Capo Rizzuto. Here in a matter of hoursAccording to sources from the Arpacal multi-risk center, 148.4 mm of rain fell: in just one hour, from 7.15 to 8.15, 79 mm fell. The violent gusts of sirocco that sweep the coast together with the violence of the abundant rains have caused some landslides on the carriageway of the Ionic state highway 106, interrupted in two points at km 231 + 600 and at km 232 + 800 , between Crotone and Catanzaro in height of the territory of Isola Capo Rizzuto. Anas workers and firefighters are working to restore viability on the communication route; patrols from the Crotone section of the traffic police are also monitoring the site. Floods also occurred in the town of Isola Capo Rizzuto. In via Tesoriere the most critical point since the Municipal Civil Protection teams had to intervene. Floods also in Crotone with firefighters involved in numerous interventions.
Problems also in the nearby port of the hamlet of Le Castella: the strong wind caused the moorings of some boats to break, which sank. In the same village, moreover, the rain has thickened the Acquavrava stream that flows near the tourist villages, causing considerable damage.
How the cyclone that hit Calabria and Sicily formed
Cyclones like the one that hit Calabria and Sicily are also called Medicane (from the fusion of the English words MEDIterranean hurriCANE) and fortunately they are quite rare, explain the experts of IlMeteo.it: “For physical characteristics and necessarily Medicane they have nothing to envy the classics tropical cyclones or hurricanes that hit the tropical sector of the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. The ‘fault’ for the formation of this vortex is largely due to the still very high temperatures of the seas (the latest data show values of around 26-27 ° C in the sectors where the vortex passes) that continuously feed this cyclone, supplying it with new energy until it becomes a Medicane, a tropical cyclone ”.
“The essential characteristic – continue the experts – is the warm core (warm core in technical terms), well present especially in the lower layers, with temperatures higher than + 2 ° C + 3 ° C (if not even more) than the surrounding environment. These cyclones are capable of conserving a very high power during their journey which often results in intense convective activity in the center, where particularly violent storm systems can hide, and very strong and turbulent winds with gusts exceeding 120 km / h . often in the form of a storm. “
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