Snow up to hilly altitudes, temperatures at -20 in the mountains, hailstorms and wind in Piedmont. It is the tail of the winter that practically did not happen, with 111 days of drought. After yesterday afternoon’s hailstorms and windstorms, with damage to crops between the provinces of Cuneo and Turin, the thermometer plummeted last night: the minimum was 4.5 degrees in the center of Turin, 0.7 in Cuneo city. The lows in the mountains are very rigid: -24.9 on Monte Rosa, -19 in Ceresole Reale (Turin) in the Gran Paradiso park, -18.2 in Bardonecchia (Turin) in the Susa Valley. In the afternoon the weather is expected to improve. The next night, however, will also be very cold.
Coldiretti, hail devastates vegetable gardens and orchards
Storms accompanied by hail have struck a patchy causing incalculable damage in the countryside where the first fruits are harvested in the gardens and the fruit plants are in full bloom driven by a dry winter with 1/3 less rain and boiling water which, from a climatological point of view, has recorded an average temperature of 0.49 higher in Italy degrees. This is what emerges from the monitoring of Coldiretti on the effects of the civil protection alert for the violent wave of bad weather. The most affected areas: Piedmont (several areas); Lombardy (in particular the province of Mantua, damaging the flowering of the IGP pear and in Cremona for beets and fruit plants); Emilia-Romagna, Veneto.
Snow even at low altitudes in Sardinia
This morning the peaks of Nuoro and Ogliastra were whitened by a white blanket and it still continues to snow in the city of Nuoro but also in the hilly towns of Barbagia. Temperatures close to zero also in Cagliari, where the mercury column rose to 4 degrees this morning. To Atzara the mayor has closed schools of all levels. A similar decision was taken by the Municipalities of Vegetables e Macomer. In action the ssnowman on highway 131 between Nuorese and Sassarese. Snow and slowdowns also on the state road 389 Nuoro-Lanusei where the Anas vehicles are in action.
La Spezia and Cinque Terre
Bad weather has brought snow to La Spezia also on the coast. It has been snowing since last night and the flakes have whitened the hills around the city. The Sciacchetrail foot race (46 Km) in progress in the Cinque Terre, with about 300 participants. As in the Milan-Sanremo Cup for vintage cars, the stage between Rapallo and Loano has been suspended.
Metrocittà of Florence
The vehicles of the Civil Protection and of the Viability of the Metropolitan City of Florence in action at Consuma, in Vallombrosa and on the provincial road 302 after the snow that fell during the night. But it is stop of heating 15 days in advance on various areas of the territory “it makes no sense considering that it snows in some municipalities where the ordinance to close the thermal plants was issued,” said Cecilia Cappelleti, metropolitan councilor of the Lega.