It has already caused five deaths in Europe, including a 5-year-old child in Belgium, has left more than a million homes in the north-west of France in the dark and is now about to arrive on the Peninsula: storm Ciaran will visit our country at least until Sunday, bringing with it rain and strong winds.
The wave of bad weather from the Atlantic has already hit the British Isles and Northern Europe, with winds of up to 200 miles per hour that have knocked down trees and caused serious disruption to transport, reaching as far as Spain. The first Italian regions to be hit will be those in the North, followed by the central Tyrrhenian areas.
In Veneto and Friuli-Venezia Giulia the alert is red, orange in nine other regions. Governor Luca Zaia has convened the crisis unit. Winds of up to 130 km per hour and intense thunderstorms are expected: for this reason schools will be closed in the region starting from the most exposed provinces.
In Belluno and Verona lessons are suspended, students are at home also in 42 out of 95 municipalities of Treviso. In Verona, the level of the Adige is also being monitored: the tunnel that drains part of the mass of water into Lake Garda could be reopened. Friuli-Venezia Giulia is also taking action against Ciaran.
From today at noon to midnight tomorrow, Udine has closed public parks and gardens, sports facilities, museums, libraries, cemeteries. Trieste has also closed its gardens. Between the two regions on red alert, Trenitalia has suspended train circulation on the Portogruaro-Casarsa and Portogruaro-Trieste routes, and the Eastern Veneto Transport Company has also suspended all bus connections to Friuli. Orange alert in Trentino. Watercourses and slopes are being monitored for possible landslides; lower temperatures and wind are on the way.
Same 'color' in Emilia-Romagna, where strong storms are expected especially in the central-eastern mountain areas. The Levante Ligure is confirmed as orange and the sea is worrying: Waves of up to six meters are expected. In Milan there is concern for a new flooding of the Seveso. Meanwhile it is raining heavily and the recommendation to citizens is not to stand under trees and scaffolding, in addition to securing the vases on the balconies.
Tuscany also continues with the orange alert, while the governor Eugenio Giani speaks of "further worsening in the coming hours". In Viareggio tomorrow schools and pine forests will be closed and lessons will be stopped in the province of Massa Carrara. In Lazio there is a yellow alert, while the South is taking cover, closing schools tomorrow in Naples, Caserta, Benevento and Salerno. For the whole day tomorrow in Taranto access to the tree-lined areas of gardens, parks, villas and city cemeteries will be prohibited.
While in Italy the first damages are being counted, and Ciaran's fury is awaited, in the rest of Europe the toll is tragic: In the north-west of France the wind gusts reached 200 km/h and a tree, falling on a lorry, killed a truck driver. In Le Havre another victim of the bad weather while sixteen people were also injured throughout the country. In Belgium there are two victims, including a 5-year-old child hit by a branch while playing in a park; another child, 3 years old, was injured.
In Ghent a tree fell on two passers-by: one died and the other was injured; one injured also in Antwerp. A victim also in Spain, in the center of Madrid: A twenty-year-old girl was killed by a falling tree.
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Article published on November 2, 2023 - 19:19
