05:57 16 May

Red alert in Emilia Romagna, orange in three regions and yellow for ten others

Italy in the midst of storm Minerva, with bad weather expected at least until the end of the week. Today red alert for hydraulic and hydrogeological risk in Emilia Romagna. Orange in Marche, Sicily and Campania. Yellow in Abruzzo, Basilicata, Calabria, Lazio, Lombardy, Molise, Puglia, Tuscany, Umbria and Veneto. Schools closed in Ravenna and Bologna. Evacuations to Ischia for Casamicciola.

06:13 16 May

In Fontanelice, Bologna, a house disappears overwhelmed by the landslide

06:04 16 May

The map of the areas at risk of the Civil Protection

06:12 16 May

In Fontanelice, Bologna, landslides everywhere: the ground in front of the house disappears

05:51 16 May

In Mondello, roads like rivers

05:45 16 May

Red badge for Ravenna, alert for upper Mugello and upper Valtiberina

Emilia Romagna red sticker, especially in Ravenna where schools will be closed today. The same thing will also happen in Bologna and its metropolitan area, in this anomalous, cold and rainy May. In particular, the red alert was issued for hydraulic and hydrogeological criticalities on the mountains and hills of central Emilia; Modena plain; plain, hill and mountain of Bologna; plain, hill, mountain and Romagna coast. Orange alert instead for mountains and hills of Piacenza and Parma; Reggio Emilia plain; plain and Ferrara coast. According to the technicians, we are facing a situation in which two risks are added: the hydraulic and the hydrogeological.

The map of the Civil Protection alert for today also includes the orange one on the coastal areas of Campania, and yellow for Tuscany, in the Upper Mugello and in the Alta Valtiberina.

05:51 16 May

The Civil Protection explains the risks related to "colors"

05:51 16 May

Schools closed

Schools also closed in Pesaro, Fano, Urbino and Trecastelli, in the Senigalliese, after the orange weather alert issued by the Civil Protection of the Marche Region and in Partanna, in Trapani, Sicily where the mayor, Nicolò Catania signed the ordinance "for reasons of security and public safety". Following the red level weather alert for Western Sicily, the Rescue Coordination Centre was permanently activated in the Prefecture in Palermo, to constantly monitor the critical issues deriving from bad weather and put in place the necessary coordination interventions, to allow to promptly articulate the operational responses required by the evolution of weather conditions

05:45 16 May

Bad weather: water bomb in Florence, submerged vehicles in the underpass

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Bad weather: water bomb in Florence, submerged vehicles in the underpass

05:45 16 May

Palermo, low clouds over the city red weather alert