Weather, bad weather makes a victim in Friuli. High water in Venice

There is a victim for the wave of bad weather that has plagued Italy since Friday. A man died in Cordenons, in the province of Pordenone overwhelmed by the flood of a stream. The road had been closed for the weather alert but, despite the ban, decided to continue anyway. The local authorities, due to bad weather, had issued an orange alert, which entails a series of prescriptions including the closure of some roads. Among these, the one where the man died.This morning in Venice the high water in Venice recorded up to 119 centimeters, but for tomorrow the Tide Forecasting and Reporting Center expects a maximum peak of 135 centimeters in the early hours of the day. The wave of bad weather, with rains, strong winds and coasts lashed by the storm continues to affect Italy. Today it is still an orange alert in Basilicata, Campania, Emilia Romagna, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Lazio, Liguria, Lombardy, Molise, Sardinia, Tuscany and Umbria; yellow in Calabria, Piedmont and Veneto.
FORECASTS REGION BY REGIONIn Liguria, yesterday among the regions where there were more inconveniences and damages, the rain gave a short respite during the night, but there are still seventy isolated people in the Municipality of Follo in the province of La Spezia, where the only access road to the Torenco was closed due to unusability. Due to the heavy rains, the Entella torrent flooded just before the mouth of Chiavari, the water reached the benches of a public park and an underpass flooded, but after the flood, the situation returned to normal and stay under attention.

The red weather alert has ceased in the central-western part of Liguria and continues until midnight in the eastern part of the region where the special attention streams are the Vara and the Magra.

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Precipitation has now moved to the center and south, but the tail of the Atlantic disturbance continues to be felt in the north as well. In Friuli Venezia Giulia the opening of the ski lifts is at risk. "The disturbances currently underway and the forecasts for the next few days make the activation of the lifts in the ski resorts of Friuli Venezia Giulia uncertain and in constant evolution", communicated PromoTurismo Fvg which informs how, to date, Forni di Sopra is the the only ski center to guarantee the partial opening of the slopes.

In big cities, like Rome, inconvenience to circulation. The traffic, already congested for Christmas shopping, is made chaotic by the rain that falls from the night. Bad weather also risks creating problems on the road and motorway network, as the first holiday departures are scheduled between today and tomorrow.

Also affected by phenomena intent Tuscany: schools and parks closed in Follonica, in the Grosseto area; during the night a car with four people on board, who were not injured, got stuck in a flooded underpass at the junction of Ravi in ​​the municipality of Gavorrano (Grosseto) and was recovered by the firefighters.

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The forecast for today in the North

Very cloudy or overcast with scattered and widespread precipitations which will tend to be intense and abundant on the Triveneto area, especially close to the Alpine and pre-Alpine sectors and locally on Emilia Romagna; snow above 1800-1900 meters; during the afternoon, a tendency to temporarily attenuate clouds and phenomena starting from the North West where at the end of the day there will be a new worsening with showers scattered over Liguria and the western Alps.

Forecasts for Central and Sardinia

Very cloudy or overcast with widespread and abundant rainfall, even reversed or thunderstorms over Sardinia, regions
Tyrrhenian, Umbria and the Apennine ridge in general, more isolated rains on the remaining Adriatic areas; tendency to variability during the afternoon with large clearings along the coasts and immediate hinterland and persistence of the phenomena close to the Apennine ridge.

Forecasts for the South and Sicily

Many clouds over all the regions, more compact on the Tyrrhenian sector and on Molise where there will be widespread precipitations, also of reversed or thunderstorm character, more intense on Campania and Molise hinterland; isolated rains on the Ionian areas with sprse on the rest of the south; in the evening tendency to improve with thickening and residual phenomena still on the Tyrrhenian areas in general.