Bad weather and falling temperatures: an orange weather alert is in place for Lazio and Campania on Friday
Schools closed in Livorno and Pistoia; markets suspended in Florence. Heavy downpour in Rome
The first proper autumnal weather system has arrived: it is expected to peak today, bringing strong winds and heavy rainfall across the board, whilst by Friday temperatures are set to drop across the board, settling at typically autumnal levels with maximum temperatures below 20°C in the North, around 22°C in central Italy and around 23–24°C in the south.
“Over the next 48 hours,” explains Lorenzo Tedici, a meteorologist at iLMeteo.it, “the country will be affected by the passage of the first organised autumn weather system, predominantly of Atlantic origin. The system is driven by a trough filled with cool air at high altitude which, by interacting with the milder air mass already present over the Mediterranean basin, will trigger conditions of marked instability.”
The bad weather will peak today, with rainfall locally exceeding 50 mm over 24 hours (equivalent to 50 l/m²) in the north, along the Tyrrhenian coast and as far south as Campania. In the Alps, the snow line will drop to around 2,000 metres, with estimated accumulations of up to 10–15 cm over 24 hours.
Cemeteries, parks and the athletics track closed in Naples due to bad weather
A meeting of the Emergency Coordination Centre was urgently convened at the Prefecture by the Prefect of Naples, Michele di Bari, in response to the violent storm that struck the Naples metropolitan area, affecting in particular the areas of Arzano, Grumo Nevano and Giugliano, where damage was reported due to flooding, fallen trees and sinkholes, as well as power cuts.
Streets like raging torrents and pupils forced to climb out of the windows of the minibus taking them home, which had become bogged down in the water: this is the scene – captured in a video published by the news website Internapoli.it – which bears witness to the disruption that occurred in Giugliano (Naples), one of the areas hardest hit by the torrential downpour that has battered Naples and its province in recent hours, particularly in the area north of the city.
