Overview

• Intense overnight downpours in Milan dropped about 50 mm in two hours as the Lambro rose above 2.40 meters, prompting the CEAS evacuation, mobile barriers at Ponte Lambro and activation of the Seveso flood basin.
• Firefighters in Sicily recovered the body of 40-year-old Matteo Ciurca after the Crisa torrent swept away his car in Leonforte, Enna.
• Tuscany reported over 109,000 lightning strikes in 12 hours, with rescues from flooded underpasses around Grosseto and precautionary closures along parts of the coast.
• Rome crews carried out more than 100 interventions overnight for uprooted trees, flooding and wind damage as the storm band moved across the capital.
• Veneto saw widespread street flooding and blocked underpasses, Venice activated its civil-protection center and urged only essential travel, and orange alerts remain in Lombardy, Veneto, Emilia-Romagna, Liguria and Tuscany.