Bad weather in Veneto And Fvg: the disturbance forecast for Wednesday 15th and Thursday 16th May hit the territories of the North-East with intense rain and thunderstorms, accompanied by lightning, thunder and gusts of wind and in some cases even hail. The storms, for now, have occurred in particular during the night between the two days. The firefighters have received hundreds of requests for help, and have already intervened since last night 250 critical situationsespecially for flooding, landslides, fallen or unsafe trees. In particular, the areas of the provinces of Vicenza, Padua And Venicebut the storms did not even spare some areas of the province of Treviso.
Two bridges they collapsed to Bad (Vicenza) and three embankments gave way Vicenza Island, Castelnuovo is between Zimella And Cologna Veneta (Verona).
Until tomorrow the situation is considered critical, with particular attention to the eastern part of the region, therefore partially the Treviso area but above all the Venetian area on the Don Friuli Venezia Giulia border, for which the Livenza, Meduna and Tagliamento rivers are under observation.
ZAIA’S POINT ON BAD WEATHER
The announcement by the president of the Veneto region Luca Zaia which is monitoring the situation from the regional civil protection headquarters: «This is technically a flood that we honestly weren’t expecting in mid-May. No phenomena like this are remembered in this period. We have opened all the rolling basins. Last night we didn’t think that the situation would evolve in this way. So we officially established the crisis unit and declared a state of emergency».
«These phenomena did not happen a few years ago, the water disposal network is unable to dispose of it because it is not adequate, it is designed for the rains of 50 years ago, today they are much more abundant», said the Councilor ‘Environment – Climate – Civil Protection – Hydrogeological instability Gianpaolo Bottacin. But the system of hydraulic works has worked for the umpteenth time, if we had not opened the rolling basins and the hydraulic works everything would be under water – underlined the president of the Veneto Region again Luca Zaia -, but these are real water bombs. With the opening of the Montebello, Colombaretta, Caldogno, Trissino, Diaz and Ororlo basins we have avoided disaster in Veneto.”
RIVERS
Worth noting is the orange and yellow weather alert on the Veneto basins: the Bacchiglione has exceeded the warning threshold, the lamination basins are open.
AGRICULTURE ON THE KNEES
There are sixty-two extreme events, including cloudbursts, hailstorms and windstorms that have hit Northern Italy in the last 24 hours with hundreds of hectares of corn, wheat, soybeans and vegetables ending up underwater, landslides and damage to vineyards. This is what emerges from the analysis of Eswd data by Coldiretti which carried out an initial monitoring of the situation in the countryside with the weather alert in eight regions. The worst situations are recorded in Veneto and Lombardy.
In the Padua – explains Coldiretti – They were cereal and vegetable lands floodedsubmerging the corn just popped up, wheat almost close to harvest, as well as soybeans and pumpkins freshly sown. For a complete estimate of damage we will have to wait for the next few days, when the water has receded. Landslides have been recorded in other areas of the region, with the earth having invaded fields and vineyards.
