The Decentralized Functional Center of the Civil Protection of Veneto has issued an update notice of hydrogeological and hydraulic criticality, valid from 12.00 today to 2.00 pm tomorrow 17 May, which increases the state of alert up to the alarm level in much of the territory regional.
The weather forecast indicates a new unstable/disturbed phase for the afternoon with widespread precipitation, mainly showers and thunderstorms moving from the south-west towards the north-east; probable locally intense phenomena between the plains and the Prealps (strong showers, local hailstorms and strong gusts of wind) with even abundant quantities of precipitation during the most organized and insistent convective systems. General thinning and attenuation of the phenomena in the late evening.
As for the hydraulic criticality it was decreed the state of alarm (red) in the Alto Brenta-Bacchiglione-Alpone and Basso Brenta – Bacchiglione basinsand a state of pre-alarm (orange) in the Livenza, Lemene and Tagliamento basins, attention in the rest of the basins except for the upper Piave (green).
As for the hydrogeological criticality:
– state of alarm (red) in the basins Po, Fissero-Tartaro-CanalBianco and Basso Adige; of the Lower Brenta -Bacchiglione; of the Lower Piave, Sile and the lagoon drainage basin;
– pre-alarm status (orange) in all the rest of the regional basins.
The hydrogeological warning for thunderstorms in all the river basins of the Veneto is maximum with the exception of the upper Piave area of Belluno.
In consideration of the rainfall that has occurred and is forecast, the Civil Protection recommends paying particular attention to the hydraulic rods relating to the basins of the Brenta, Bacchiglione, Retrone, Alpone, Chiampo, Fratta-Gorzone rivers as well as the Adige river, and those of the Eastern Veneto (Monticano, Meschio , Livenza Tagliamento).
