The meteorologist Luca Lombroso analyzes the situation: “Emilia-Romagna will still experience very hot days.” The forecasts are optimistic: “Be careful, though: very heavy showers could arrive”
Kilometers of swimmable coastline, except for a small patch of sand where a bathing ban has appeared. We are at zone 151, at Marano in Riccione. Angelini: “It’s a joke. The discharge gates have remained closed”
Journey in a city battered by strong gusts of wind and rain. Plane trees fallen in various areas of the center. Taxi driver hit by a branch and miraculously saved. A building doorman prevented a flood.
Yellow weather alert for Saturday, July 18. The exact trajectory of the disturbance will only be definable at the last minute and can be followed via the weather radar. Expert Nanni: “Short-lived showers, but locally intense”
The damage assessment after the storm on July 15: strong winds up to 130 kilometers per hour and thousands of interventions by the fire brigade. From Sunday the air will be cooler: temperatures even below 30 degrees
Emilia-Romagna weather: “The worsening will be very fast, just over 4 hours, but according to various weather analyses it could be violent.” From afternoon to evening clouds moving from west to east
The weather center: “Due to the ‘downburst’, the wind gusts will reach strong or very strong intensity: the estimate sees values between 80 km/h and 110 km/h, but with peaks up to 120-130 km/h”
From Thursday possible easing of the heatwave, Pierluigi Randi (Ampro): “The region will be spared from the scorching temperatures that will hit the south, Sardinia, and the Tyrrhenian coast”
The tragedy of Porto Sant’Elpidio: Giuseppe Pieroni was sleeping near where the deflagration started. Ettorina Paccapelo buried in her house, her son Romano died in hospital