The big one is off exodus for the two weeks between Ferragosto, with Italy still wrapped in thegrandfather broken only by temporal al North part which have caused inconvenience among Val d'Aosta e Trentino Alto Adige.
Saturday morning with black warning on roads and highways for departures towards sea, in particular on the A1 Milan-Naples, the A14 Bologna-Taranto and South la A30 Caserta-Salerno. From 8am to 22pm the traffic ban in highway for heavy vehicles and in general the vehicles over 7,5 tonnes from 22pm (and tomorrow from 7am to 22pm).
The boom in departures is confirmed by an analysis by Coldiretti/Ixè which reports that they are 35 million The Italian who have decided to go in holiday for at least a few days this summer, up 4% from last year despite price increases and concerns about international tensions.
The first weekend of August of a summer that has never been so dry is still marked by scorching heat across much of Italy, with temperatures up to 40 degrees in various areas of the peninsula. The African anticyclone has triggered the red dot, the highest alert level, in 16 city: Bolzano, Brescia, Campobasso, Florence, Frosinone, Latina, Milan, Palermo, Perugia, Rieti, Rome, Turin, Trieste, Venice, Verona and Viterbo. Peaks of 38-40 degrees are expected especially in the Po Valley, Tuscany, Umbria and Lazio. The heat wave should ease already from next week, first in the Center-North and from Tuesday also in the South.
Article published on 6 August 2022 - 12:10