Overview

• Viabilità Italia issued a bollino nero for Saturday morning on ANAS-managed roads, forecasting severe congestion as 12.64 million vehicles embark on Ferragosto journeys.
• ANAS has halted 1,392 work sites—over 83% of active roadworks—and enforced heavy-vehicle bans from Friday afternoon through Sunday evening to ease traffic flow.
• Key tourist corridors such as the A2 “Autostrada del Mediterraneo,” state roads 106 Jonica and 18 Tirrena, and the E45 are reporting the most critical delays.
• The Ministry of Health assigned a bollino rosso alert to Florence and arancione warnings to 13 other cities after temperatures approached 40 °C across central and northern regions.
• Meteorological forecasts project the African anticyclone will weaken after mid-August, opening the door to isolated thunderstorms over Alpine and Apennine areas.