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- After the heavy rains, the situation has normalized in many parts of the affected Swiss regions.
- According to the Federal Highway Office, the flood situation has relaxed.
- In the canton of Uri, the A2 highway between Beckenried / NW and Erstfeld / UR was reopened at night.
On Sunday, the situation in the rivers calmed down, as reported in the federal natural hazards bulletin. With the exception of the Tresa in Ticino, all existing warnings for larger rivers have been removed. The water level of the Tresa, the outlet of Lake Lugano, will remain elevated, so the danger level 2 warning will remain there, he said.
For the small and medium rivers of the Sopraceneri, the flood warning was valid until Monday. The warnings for Lake Maggiore and for Lake Lugano and Lake Lucerne also remained in place until Monday.
According to SRF Meteo, it rains heavily in the south on Monday night. Until noon on Monday, 10 to 60 millimeters of rain are expected again. This means that the risk of debris flows and landslides persists.
Derived from Reuss’s water
The deep “Brigitte” had brought a lot of rain on Friday and Saturday morning. In some places, more than 400 millimeters of rain fell. There were local landslides and floods in the cantons of Ticino, Valais, Uri, Glarus and Graubünden.
Police closed the A2 between Beckenried (NW) and Erstfeld (UR) completely shortly after midnight on Saturday after heavy rain. The police diverted the Reuss water between Seedorf and Attinghausen, causing the A2 between the two cities of Uri, Seefdorf and Attinghausen, to be flooded.
In the lower Reuss de Uri valley, two sections of the highway are designed as flood retention basins. When the Reuss reaches a certain discharge rate, the water is directed towards the A2 to protect the settlement area.
On Saturday, police, auxiliary workers and private construction and transportation companies cleared the road in the flooded sections. The north lane was operational again at 8:30 pm After a control run, the police opened the second lane early Sunday morning.
The flood situation has relaxed, the Federal Highway Office (Astra) justified the reopening on Saturday night. The heavy rain stopped. It was only raining lightly, Uri canton police said upon request.
The Gotthardpass road remains closed
The Gotthard Pass is closed until further notice after heavy rains on Friday and Saturday. Bad weather prevents order, wrote the Federal Highway Office (Astra). For safety reasons, cleanup works on the Gotthard Pass road will be possible on Monday at the earliest.
According to TCS traffic information, many other alpine passes in the central Alps have been closed since Saturday and also Sunday. These included Susten, Nufenen, Simplon, Grimsel, Furka, Klausen, and San Bernardino.
