Overview
- Emergency crews in Genoa logged about 100 interventions in 24 hours as the orange alert expired at midnight and shifted to yellow, with landslides, fallen trees, flooding and road closures reported from Rapallo to stretches of the Aurelia.
- Saturday’s downburst displaced 12 containers at Prà, overturned vehicles, damaged shopfronts and forced flight diversions, while a wall collapse in Pegli and multiple power cuts added to disruption; three hikers initially reported missing at Piani di Praglia later returned home safely.
- Regional data show exceptional rainfall with local totals over 200 mm around Genoa in 48 hours (including 204 mm at Genova Fiumara and 180 mm at Pegli), and 217 mm recorded at Stazzema in Tuscany, leaving soils saturated and streams prone to rapid rises.
- Civil Protection issued an adverse weather advisory as forecasters confirmed orange alerts for Liguria and parts of Emilia-Romagna and yellow alerts in sectors of Lombardy and Tuscany, with widespread heavy rain and strong winds still possible.
- Meteorologists expect the Atlantic storm train to persist early week, followed around Thursday by the first Arctic-maritime outbreak that will drive a sharp temperature drop below seasonal norms and bring snow to lower elevations, especially in the North and Centre.