Bad weather does not leave Italy: yellow alert in 9 regions, the South also affected

The bad weather does not seem to want to leave Italy. While Valle d’Aosta and Piedmont are busy counting the damage from last weekend’s storms, for tomorrow – Tuesday 2 July – the Civil Protection has assessed a yellow alert for nine regions: Veneto, Abruzzo, Molise, Campania, Puglia, Basilicata and parts of Tuscany, Calabria and Umbria. The territories of the South will also have to deal with the disturbance arriving from central Europe: in Naples for tomorrow the closure of the parks, of the northern pier of Bagnoli and the prohibition of access to the city’s public beaches has already been decided (THE WEATHER FORECAST).

Disturbance coming

The Department of Civil Protection warns that from the early hours of Tuesday, winds (even gale force) will blow over Sicily, then extending to Calabria – in particular over the Ionian channels and the areas of the Strait of Sicily – with rough seas along the exposed coasts. Scattered rainfall, in the form of showers or thunderstorms, over Abruzzo, Molise and Puglia, also these then extending to Campania and Basilicata. Heavy showers are expected, accompanied by frequent electrical activity and local hailstorms.

Damage in Aosta Valley and Piedmont

Attention is still focused on Valle d’Aosta and Piedmont, where the request for a state of natural disaster is ready to start. In Cogne, where the Minister of Tourism Daniela Santanchè is expected to arrive in the next few hours, today – July 1 – was also a day of evacuation of tourists: at the moment about a thousand have been taken away. In Cervinia they are trying to understand how much damage the bad weather has caused in particular to commercial activities: shops, bars, restaurants and garages on the central Via Carrel were hit the most. Things are not going any better in Piedmont: the town of Macugnaga, in the province of Verbano Cusio Ossola, is described as an “open-air construction site”. Between mud and blocked roads, the regional Anci has launched an appeal to carry out “a serious reflection on the urgency of carrying out important structural interventions aimed at preventing new emergencies”.

The appeal of Anci and Uncem: “Climate emergency concerns everyone”

The warning from Anci also looks beyond the individual municipalities affected. “In addition to Piedmont and Valle d’Aosta – explains President Andrea Corsaro – the events of the last few days have also affected neighboring France and Switzerland: the fight against climate change is a topic that therefore requires an open discussion on a large scale, to which the mayors are ready to contribute”. Uncem, the Union of Mountain Communities, also agrees, according to which “the climate emergency that has once again affected the slopes and the inhabited areas is an issue that also concerns Turin, Milan, Genoa. The second homes of those coming from these large centers are in the thousands and the projection of these urban systems on mountain locations we cannot say today is metropolitan, given that after the enormous damage of the last few hours once again the large cities have not understood that those problems in the mountain areas are also theirs”.

State of ‘attention’ in Veneto

Among the other areas affected is also the province of Belluno, where a large landslide of mud and debris invaded the provincial road 347 of the Duran pass, in the municipality of Val di Zoldo. In Veneto it is therefore a ‘state of attention’.

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