Bad weather, rains and red alert in Piedmont: “Schools closed in Alessandria”. Liguria, the situation in Genoa and in the West improves

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The red alert remains for bad weather in Piedmont, after the rainfall that yesterday created inconvenience and flooding in much of the north-west. After a night characterized by rain and strong wind, the region is still considered to have the highest level of hydrogeological and hydraulic risk in the central-eastern area. In the early morning the rainfall, with a reverse character, recorded the most significant peaks between Turin and Biellese. On the other hand, the situation in Liguria is improving, where the perturbation that recorded winds of up to 100 km / h has shifted, with a consequent downgrading of the risk level from red to yellow, while only the Ligurian Levant remains on orange alert.

Piedmont, incessant rains in the night. Schools closed in Alexandria
According to the data collected by ARPA, the most significant peaks relating to rainfall were recorded in Turin, in Graglia (65.2 mm, 98 mm in 6 hours), Varisella (62.4 mm, 89.6 in 6 hours) and Pian Audi (55.8 mm), while in the Biella area, in Oropa, 49.1 mm of rain fell in the last three hours.

But the inconveniences are also recorded in other areas of the region. Marco Gabusi, councilor for civil protection of the Piedmont Region, on Twitter makes it known that in Alessandria it was decided to keep schools closed, as well as in numerous other centers of the province, while there are “roads and railway sections still closed between Piedmont and Liguria ”, Adding that the Region“ is bringing relief to all affected areas ”.

As for the rivers, according to Arpa, the Bormida flood passed through the hydrometer of Alessandria, reaching its peak at 2. The level is decreasing and currently below the danger threshold. Even the Tanaro in Montecastello, still with values ​​above the warning threshold, is decreasing. The Po in Isola Sant’Antonio is growing slightly, but with values ​​that are not considered worrying at the moment. In northern Piedmont, the Anza stream remains stationary below the guard level, after having passed it at about one o’clock. The Cervo is increasing in the sections of Passobreve and Vigliano, with values ​​currently below the guard level. The Orco in Spineto, at the stationary moment, registered a significant increase, exceeding the level of guard at 4.30.

For the next few hours, however, a new significant increase in precipitation is not expected, but only residual phenomena, of low intensity, on the Alessandria area. Moderate rainfall also in the north-western and northern foothills. From mid-morning the phenomena are expected to diminish, albeit still persisting in the northern sector. The rest of the region is expected to run out of rain.

Liguria, yellow alert in most of the region: historical record of rains in the Savona area
The alert level on Genoa, the Genoese and the Ligurian Ponente, where the strong disturbance called ‘Christian’ passed, during the night, much faster than expected, leaving only weak precipitations that did not produce any effect. Winds reached 80 km / h with gusts of up to 100 km / h. The alert will remain orange on the Ligurian Levant: no significant rainfall is reported in this area either. It seems that the disturbance has unloaded all its power only on the Savona area, where yesterday the historical record of rainfall was reached, which led to landslides, floods and consequently the closure of motorway and railway sections.

Consequently, the services suspended due to bad weather also begin to be restored. The section of the A26 between Ovada and Masone, closed yesterday due to a landslide, was reopened with a carriageway change. The Masone toll booth has also been reopened in both directions, after some technical checks. On the other hand, the movement of trains on the Genoa-Ovada-Acqui Terme line is suspended, which was interrupted yesterday due to the rise in the level of the Stura river which had reached the warning levels. The Savona-San Giuseppe section on the Savona-Turin and Alessandria-Savona lines is also closed to rail traffic. The Turin-Savona and Fossano-San Giuseppe trains therefore still terminate in Ceva while the Alessandria-Savona connections stop at San Giuseppe. The bus service remains between Ceva-San Giuseppe and Savona. Trenitalia has organized a bus from Acqui to Ovada and from Genoa to Ovada but the situation of the roads in the area between Liguria and Piedmont is still critical.

The section along the state road 35 Dei Giovi, in the municipality of Ronco Scrivia, in both directions, is also closed due to a landslide in the metropolitan area of ​​Genoa. Mud and debris fell on the road site. A section of the Turchino state road in both directions is also closed due to a landslide and always in the Genoese area.

The Rome-Naples railway line via Formia is closed
Moving towards the center-south, there are other inconveniences in transport related to bad weather. Traffic is suspended from 1.50 this night on the Rome-Naples line, via Formia, in the section between Rome Casilina and Latina, and on the Rome-Nettuno line between Rome Casilina and Nettuno, due to damage caused by bad weather. During the strong storm, lightning caused a fire in a cable cabin near Torricola, with consequent damage to the train circulation systems.

The bad weather that is affecting Campania is also creating serious problems for commuters who use the Circumvesuviana trains. As announced by the Volturno Autonomous Authority, “due to the flooding of the Scafati (Salerno) station, at the moment the circulation on the Pompei sanctuary-Poggiomarino section is interrupted. The trains scheduled from Poggiomarino depart from Pompeii ”. The 6.49am trains from Scafati to Poggiomarino and the 8.04am on the reverse route were canceled. Also canceled the convoys of 7.47 departing from Naples to Poggiomarino and that of 9.16 directed from Poggiomarino to Naples. Suppression also for the 8 o’clock trains that went from Naples to Sorrento and the one scheduled at 10 from Sorrento to the Campania capital.

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