Bad weather, the orange alert starts from 18 today on the center and on the eastern Liguria

Genoa – Liguria continues to be hit by bad weather. After the hailstorms of recent days, the storm and the whirlwinds in Lavagna and in Genoa, the region will again be hit by a disturbance that will reach its peak between today and tomorrow morning, especially in the Center and in the Levant. Arpal issued a warning notice. In a nutshell for the medium and small basins of the provinces of Genoa and Spezia (including the Polcevera valley, the upper Bisagno valley, the Scrivia valley, the Aveto valley, the Trebbia valley, the Fontanabuona valley and the Sturla valley) it will be yellow starting from 4pm today, orange from 6pm to 7am tomorrow and then still yellow from 8am to 2pm.

For the medium and small basins of the West (on the coast from Ventimiglia to Noli, in the entire province of Imperia, in the Centa valley) and inland to the Bormida valley (including the Stura valley) will be yellow from 4pm today to 7am tomorrow morning.

Onlyfor the large basins of the Ligurian Levant (therefore along the coast from Portofino to the border with Tuscany, in the whole province of La Spezia, in the Fontanabuona valley and in the Sturla valley) it will be yellow from 16 to 14 tomorrow.

For an improvement, we will have to wait because Saturday will be characterized by bad weather and instability.

Today's forecasts
Rains in the whole Region. Expected storms also violent and persistent in Valle Scrivia, Val d'Aveto and Val Trebbia, along the coast from Spotorno to Camogli, Val Polcevera and Alta Val Bisagno and along the coast from Portofino to the border with Tuscany, in the whole province of La Spezia, in the Fontanabuona Valley and in the Valle Sturla.

The winds they will be reinforced from the North, North-West in the Stura valley and Savona hinterland up to Val Bormida and in the western part of the center (along the coast from Spotorno to Camogli, Val Polcevera and Alta Val Bisagno) with possible gusts in the evening up to 40- 50 km / h, from the south-east along the coast from Portofino to the border with Tuscany, throughout the province of La Spezia, in the Fontanabuona valley and in the Sturla valley, in the Scrivia valley, in the Val d'Aveto and in the Trebbia valley and in the Golfo Paradiso and Tigullio with possible gusts in the evening up to 60-70 km / h.

Tomorrow

The picture of the situation: cumulative and temperatures
In the last hours the instability has provoked thunderstorms with hail phenomena that have affected the central sector of the region and in particular the Ponente Genovese, Val Polcevera, Valle Scrivia, reaching then the Val Bisagno. The maximum cumulative is recorded to Sanctuary of Monte Gazzo with 54.2 mm (27.4 cumulative hourly maximum, 12.2 millimeters in 15 minutes), followed by Pontedecimo with 36.8, Pegli with 35.6, Bolzaneto with 35.2 while, in Fiumara, a backhand has accumulated 7.4 millimeters in 5 minutes. Moreover, around 10 am, a series of sea trumpets were formed in front of the Genoese coast.

From the afternoon of today one is expected on Liguria new disturbance that will favor the increase in instability starting from the West. "There will be possible showers and thunderstorms strong and organized in the West while on the Levant center the phenomena may have the character of persistence – explain the forecasters of Arpal – To signal the strengthening of the winds and, from tomorrow afternoon, the rise of the sea with motion wavy up to rough. The most intense precipitations can be verified up to the first morning of tomorrow, Friday 8 but to follow will remain conditions of instability above all on the Center Levante ».

Regarding temperatures, last night at some stations in the interior of the region they registered values ​​below zero: -1.0 at Poggio Fearza (Imperia), -0.8 at Cabanne (Genoa), -0.1 in Pratomollo (Genoa). In the Savona area of ​​minimum 1.1 in Montenotte Inferiore, in the La Spezia area of ​​1.9 in Cembrano. In the reference stations of the provincial capital cities, these are the minimum: Genoa Functional Center 10.0, Savona Nautical Institute 9.7, Imperia Earthquake Weather Observatory 10.3, La Spezia 7.3.