Bad weather in Veneto And Fvg, update weather forecast today evening, May 16th. Weather always under observation by the Civil Protection of Veneto which until 11pm today still reports rainfall over much of the eastern plain with some pockets of strong intensity at the south-western borders of the region entering the Veronese area (Valeggio sul Mincio) and Rodigino (Rosolina). The situation should improve from midnight. The measurements of the millimeters of rain that have fallen in the last few hours, processed by Arpav, confirm that while a truce is in place in Vicenza, particularly hit during the night and in the morning, the bad weather is moving towards Friuli Venezia Giulia, plaguing part of the Treviso area ( especially in the Castelfranco Veneto area), but above all the border area of Portogruaro (Venice) where widespread flooding and around 300 interventions by the fire brigade were recorded. The railway lines between Vicenza and Schio, Padua and Treviso continue to be interrupted as a precaution and river levels are being monitored.
A complex evening, with strong hailstorms in the Venetian area and flooding of the waterways in the province of Treviso, which added up to a complex night and morning with hundreds of requests for help from the firefighters to 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.
THE POINT ON BAD WEATHER, ZAIA LIVE ON SOCIAL MEDIA
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 occurs in mid-Mayhonestly, we really didn’t expect it. 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 (VIDEO). With the opening of the Montebello, Colombaretta, Caldogno, Trissino, Diaz and Ororlo basins we have avoided disaster in Veneto.”
Weather reports? These are not absolute certainties
«The warning bulletins? They are forecasts which as such can change over the course of even a few hours, are not absolute certainties». This is how President Zaia responds to the controversy over alerts issued yesterday by the Veneto regional civil protection which initially signaled a “yellow” state of attention which then changed to “orange” only late in the evening, a circumstance which for many would have led to an underestimation of the seriousness of the phenomenon. For critics, the “orange” state of alert should have been immediately issued early yesterday afternoon and not waited hours later.
STATE OF EMERGENCY AND ACCESS TO NATIONAL FUNDS
Crisis unit open for bad weather and declaration of a state of emergency, with the start of the reimbursement procedure and access to national funds. The president of Veneto, Luca Zaia, decided this after the wave of bad weather that affected the region since yesterday.
RED ALARM STATE DECREED
There Civil protection of the Veneto he declared «red» alarm state due to hydrogeological and hydraulic criticality over a large part of the regional territory, valid from 12.00 today to 14.00 tomorrow. As regards the hydraulic criticality, the red alert concerns the Alto Brenta-Bacchiglione-Alpone and Basso Brenta-Bacchiglione basins, and the orange pre-alarm concerns the Livenza, Lemene and Tagliamento basins; yellow state of attention on the rest of the basins, except the upper Piave (green). As regards hydrogeological criticality, the state of red alert is in the Po, Fissero-Tartaro-CanalBianco and Basso Adige basins; of the Lower Brenta-Bacchiglione; of the Lower Piave, Sile and the lagoon drainage basin; the orange pre-alarm status 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.
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.
