Bad weather, red alert in Tuscany: rivers flooded and schools closed. LIVE

Bad weather has arrived in Italy and there has already been a lot of damage. High attention in Tuscany, where the red alert for bad weather today involves four provinces, in particular those of Massa Carrara and Lucca, plus some municipalities of Pistoia and Prato. Yesterday, around a hundred people were displaced from the hamlets of Casette and Forno (Massa), while four families were displaced in the La Spezia area.

On the A14, the section between Bologna Borgo Panigale and the connection with the A1, towards Milan, was temporarily closed to allow the urgent restoration of the pavement on the A14-A1 junction affected by very heavy rain. Traffic Police patrols and staff from the third Bologna section of Autostrade per l'Italia intervened. Currently, there is only one lane and there is a 3 km queue in the direction of Milan.

In Massa, the embankment of the Frigido river, which had its first flood last night with overflows in the floodplain near the mouth, has been strengthened with new banks in filled earth. Meanwhile, around 100 people remain displaced from the two hamlets of Casette and Forno, villages still isolated due to a landslide which interrupted the hilly roads. Some of them were hosted by the Municipality, others found independent accommodation.

Due to a landslide that occurred last night, state road 62 "della Cisa" is temporarily closed in both directions, at km 7.951 in the locality of Caprigliola (Massa-Carrara). Vehicular traffic is currently diverted, for light vehicles, in both directions, from the Caprigliola roundabout along the New Caprigliola Bridge onto state road 330, until reaching the town of Santo Stefano di Magra. For heavy vehicles, in both directions, the detour involves transit from the Caprigliola roundabout along state road 330 and subsequently on provincial road 10, until reaching the roundabout at the Vezzano Ligure motorway toll booth. Anas teams and the police intervened on site in order to allow normal traffic to be restored as quickly as possible.

The floodwaters of the Serchio river passed through the territories of Borgo a Mozzano, Lucca, San Giuliano Terme and Vecchiano. After reaching the maximum levels, the river is now declining and remains within the first reference level. The flood is continuing its path towards the mouth, where it is currently in transit. The situation is also under control for the other waterways of the main hydrographic network, which are all within their respective reference levels. However, no critical issues are reported along the Arno river, where the hydrometric levels do not highlight particular risk situations.