“These are dramatic hours for Veneto, hit by intense rains and floods”. Governor Luca Zaia does not mince words to define in a post on Facebook the situation in the Region, plagued by bad weather. The Veneto Civil Protection has issued one ‘red’ state of alarm valid until 2pm today in much of the regional territory with a new phase of widespread precipitation and moving towards the north-east. But storms, storms, floods, landslides and mudslides also threaten Lombardy after yesterday. The Weather forecast.
Veneto
In the early hours of the day the Muson dei Sassi river flooded in Camposampiero (Padua), in the Rustega area, due to the failure of an embankment due to heavy rain. Fire brigade teams, with alluvial river rescuers from the command of Padua, Vicenza, Belluno and Venice, rushed to the scene, evacuating some homes left isolated. An amphibious vehicle from the Verona command is also arriving, and personnel and pumping equipment from the Emilia-Romagna commands. The rescue operations are coordinated by the provincial commander, Giuseppe Lomoro. Doubling of shifts arranged. The Veneto Civil Protection has issued an update on the weather situation, which in the last 6 hours has recorded the absence of precipitation, but several critical situations due to the intense rains last night in almost all the provinces. The flooding affects the inhabited centers of the municipalities of Asolo and Castelfranco Veneto (Treviso). Further flooding is reported in the municipalities of Quarto d’Altino (Venice), and in the Treviso municipalities of Altivole, Casier, Fonte, Mogliano Veneto. There breaking of the bank of the Muson dei Sassi in Camposampiero led the waters to invade the territories located to the east of the territory, confined to the south by the Muson Vecchio embankment. Other landslides obstruct traffic in the foothills of Treviso and Belluno. Widespread flooding remains mainly in the provinces of Vicenza and Padua due to the rains of 15 and 16 May.
The forecasts indicate mostly no precipitation in the morning, from the central hours some new scattered precipitation is possible, even with showers or local thunderstorms, especially in central-eastern mountain-foothill areas. Today the flood peaks are expected to pass through the plain-mouth sections of the Piave, Livenza, Brenta and Bacchiglione. The Bisatto and Fratta-Gorzone will be able to maintain high levels, due to the disposal of the water present in the secondary network. In the absence of precipitation, the mountainous portions of the waterways will continue to experience decreases in levels.
The rain should give a reprieve to Vicenzawhile the border area of Portogruaro in the Venetian area will be especially affected, where they were already yesterday widespread flooding was recorded, so much so that there were around 300 interventions by the firefighters. The railway lines between Vicenza and Schio, Padua and Treviso continue to be interrupted. River levels are under close observation.
Lombardy
Search operations continue today for the man who fell into a ditch yesterday afternoon, swollen by bad weather in Cantù in the Como area. The firefighters are involved with a helicopter, with diving teams and drones, specialists in river rescue. After yesterday’s heavy rain and storm, for today in Lombardy, we read on the Region’s website, “it is more moderate instability expected with the possibility of scattered showers and thunderstorms in the Alpine and pre-Alpine areas from the afternoon, while the involvement of the plain appears occasional. The probability of strong thunderstorms for today remains very low”. “It should be noted that due to the rainfall that has affected the Po river basin in recent days, it is The rise in hydrometric levels in the Lombardy area is expected in the next few hours“.
“The rescue coordination centre, activated on Wednesday by the prefect of Milan Claudio Sgaraglia – assures the prefecture of Milan in a note -, is constantly meeting in the Civil Protection operations room to monitor all critical issues, with particular attention to the reports received from the mayors and from the territory, ensuring the full circularity of information and the timely activation of rescue and prevention interventions”. The prefecture of Milan assures this in a note. In the area of the municipalities of Gessate and Bellinzagoparticularly affected by the bad weather emergency, at the disposal of the CCS, was activated by the provincial fire brigade command, an advanced command post, to coordinate rescue interventions on site and request and manage the resources necessary to deal with the emergency. The prefecture also held videoconference meetings and constant contact with the operations room of the Lombardy Region and with those of the managers and concessionaires of the motorway networks and the water network involved. The rescue coordination center “continues to be openfollowing the resumption of disturbances, to ensure the continuity of the interventions to be implemented for a return to normality and for monitoring the situation”.
Friuli Venezia Giulia
The intense disturbance that affected Friuli Venezia Giulia yesterday moved to Eastern Europe during the night. After around midnight the rains stopped and today currents will flow from the south-west which will be more humid towards the mountains and which daytime heating will make the plains and mountain areas unstable. We read it in a note from the Civil Protection of Friuli Venezia Giulia. Yesterday on the Destra Tagliamento 100 to 150 mm of rain fell with peaks of over 200 mm in the Carnic Prealps, the note continues, on the Udine plain it ranged from 130 mm in the area close to the Tagliamento to 50 mm in the eastern hilly area. Between 20 and 40 mm fell on the Isonzo and Trieste. In the mountain area, 100 to 150 mm generally fell, with lower values in the Tarvisio area. Today it is expected to be mostly cloudy in the mountain area, variable in the plains, slightly cloudy on the coast. There will be scattered showers and local thunderstorms between the mountains and the plains, more likely in the afternoon and in the pre-Alpine area. Generally better weather on the coast. Tomorrow the weather will stabilize further and good weather will prevail.
During the night, further flooding was reported to Sor in the municipality of San Vito al Tagliamento. In general, the disturbance caused the overflowing of numerous streams and canals in the lower plain, particularly affecting the province of Pordenone and the Latisana area with widespread flooding in the municipalities of San Vito al Tagliamento, Cordovado, Chions, Sesto al Reghena, Zoppola, Casarsa della Delizia, Morsano al Tagliamento, Azzano Decimo, Prata di Pordenone, Pasiano di Pordenone but also Latisana, Codroipo, Camino al Tagliamento and Precenicco in the Province of Udine. The fords of Rauscedo in the municipality of Vivaro and Murlis in the municipality of Zoppola remain closedas well as the secondary fords in the municipality of Cordenons. The Tul road in the municipality of Clauzetto remains closed for the entire duration of the alert. With the rains it is also the landslide movement upstream of the town of Cazzaso was reactivated.
May 17, 2024
