The bad weather with rain and thunderstorms continues in the next few hours, especially in the South, although from tomorrow the weather will improve with residual phenomena. And from next week the anticyclone will return which could give us the so-called classic October with mild temperatures. According to the Italian Weather Center, the weekend begins with a depression, with a small drop of cold air at high altitude, moving over the central Mediterranean.
Unstable or disturbed weather conditions in these early hours of Saturday, especially in the South where we find heavy showers and thunderstorms. However, scattered precipitation also occurred in the center and in Sardinia. Even in the afternoon and evening phenomena that linger in the Center-South while in the North we will have a general improvement.
For tomorrow, Sunday 11 October, the trough is moving towards the Balkans and the weather conditions will be significantly improving in Italy. In the morning we will still have some showers or thunderstorms scattered across Molise, Puglia and Calabria while elsewhere sunny spells will prevail. Dry weather also in the afternoon and evening except for some rain in Emilia Romagna, Tuscany and Puglia.
Temperatures rising slightly but still in line with averages or slightly below. The main models show for next week a vast and robust high pressure field, with ground values up to 1030 hPa, expanding between the Atlantic and central-western Europe. A drop of cold air will instead affect the Balkans, descending to the eastern Mediterranean.
Weather conditions should be more stable in central-northern Italy while in the South scattered rain and thunderstorms cannot yet be ruled out. The latest model updates, ahead of mid-October, once again show a robust high pressure field dominating Europe. Compact polar vortex and anticyclone lying along the parallels with dry weather conditions for Italy in the central days of the month. For the Italian Weather Center, a new 'October' is in sight with temperatures that could still remain around the averages for the period.
Orange alert in 4 Regions: Campania, Calabria, Puglia and Sicily. The warning foresees the persistence of precipitation, ranging from scattered to widespread, with a predominantly downpour or thunderstorm character, over Campania and extending over Calabria. From today, scattered to widespread rainfall is expected in Puglia, mostly showers or thunderstorms. The phenomena will be accompanied by heavy showers, strong gusts of wind, local hailstorms and frequent electrical activity. On the basis of the ongoing and expected phenomena, an orange alert has been assessed for today in Sicily and sectors of Calabria, Puglia and Campania. Yellow alert has also been assessed for Abruzzo, Molise, Basilicata and sectors of Umbria, Lazio, Campania, Calabria and Puglia.
On site, the firefighters ensured the safety of the area and some unsafe trees that threatened the railway line of the nearby metro station. A new meeting of the Rescue Coordination Center was convened in the Prefecture yesterday evening, convened by the Prefect of Naples, Michele di Bari, to take stock of the effects of the adverse weather conditions that have affected the metropolitan area.
The mayor of Lecce, Adriana Poli Bortone, issued an urgent order yesterday late in the evening to close schools of all levels, to protect public safety, today due to forecasts of thunderstorms. The civil protection section of the Puglia Region has issued an orange weather alert throughout Salento due to hydrogeological and hydrogeological risk due to thunderstorms, valid from last midnight and for 24 hours. In addition to heavy showers, strong gusts of wind, local hail and frequent electrical activity are expected.
The activation of the Municipal Operations Center has been arranged and precautionary measures have been adopted to close some municipal areas and structures. The rains hit many areas of Bari and the province this evening. Due to bad weather, gusts of wind and heavy rain throughout the local police of the capital municipality, they advise against transit through any underpass in the city and ask that particular attention be paid to flooding of basement garages, cellars and rooms located below street level. Citizens are invited to minimize or avoid car travel. The critical situation tends towards "red alert", explains the local police.
The Mayors of the Municipalities of Anzio and Nettuno, on the coast south of Rome, will ask the Lazio Region to declare a state of disaster after yesterday morning's storm which, with roads like rivers, caused flooding, especially on the lower floors of many houses. They also asked the regional Civil Protection for the support of men and means to deal with the emergency that has arisen in recent days. The mayors, Aurelio Lo Fazio and Nicola Burrini, announced it. It should be considered that in the last 24 hours 80 millimeters of rain fell, more than a tenth of that which falls on the territory of the two Municipalities in a year and, therefore, this event is to be considered absolutely extraordinary.
