Bad weather, traffic haywire Italy blanket of snow from north to south
Black Friday in Italy because of bad weather. Serious disruption to traffic. Heavy snowfall hit the peninsula. The situation is most sensitive near Florence. Many trucks are gone sideways blocking the A1 and trapping motorists. Difficulties for high-speed trains: no stop at S. Maria Novella. In Arezzo, a truck was overturned because of ice: a dead man. Closed the airports of Pisa and Florence.
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Livorno, hot meals to 400 passengers
About 400 passengers Intercity Salerno- turin, started from Campania, are stuck to the track 6 of Livorno Centrale station for about 7 hours. The Civil Protection of Livorno is aiding them with hot meals and the City Council with the ASL organized a place to provide advanced medical timely assistance. All travelers
have already been visited and assisted and are now in good health.
commuters waiting for eight hours by bus from 13.30
a thousand people are waiting for a bus to the city in the province north of Rome, which do not pass. Commuters are located at the terminus of bus Cotral at Saxa Rubra, cold, first under the snow, then rain and finally hail. In the evening the passengers were reduced to 400 because many have decided to spend the night in the capital or have returned on their own, aided by friends and relatives.
Bergamo, man died shoveling snow
Heavy snowfall has created many hardships in Bergamo with traffic haywire especially in Lower Bergamo and along certain roads. There is also a victim of a worker residing in Ambivere 58 years died, probably due to a heart attack while shoveling snow outside his home.
First victim
There was also a fatal traffic accident in Tuscany due to the snowfall today. It 'happened on the Siena-Perugia, near Cortona (Arezzo), where because of the frozen road surface there was a collision between several means: one of them, a truck, rolled over, and the driver, Danilo Rossi, 62, of Sinalunga (Siena), died on the spot. Unharmed all other drivers.
Stuck on A1
Thousands of motorists were stranded on the A1 motorway between Florence Incisa and South dell'intraversamento because of heavy vehicles for snow. Teams of volunteer organizations are going to give relief with medicines, blankets and basic provisions, but, as we learn from the operations room of the regional civil protection, it could become difficult to reach everyone.
Florence, High-speed trains stop in Santa Maria Novella
A Firenze i treni Alta velocità che collegano il nord con il sud del Paese e viceversa non si fermeranno nella stazione di Santa Maria Novella ma in quelle di Rifredi e Campo di Marte. Lo hanno deciso le Ferrovie a causa delle abbondanti nevicate. Alcuni convogli che erano attesi alla stazione fiorentina di Santa Maria Novella, snodo centrale del traffico ferroviario nel capoluogo toscano, sono stati cancellati.
Chiusi gli scali di Pisa e Firenze
La neve e la scarsa visibilità hanno causato la chiusura degli aeroporti di Pisa e Firenze. A Pisa lo scalo è stata chiuso intorno alle 11.30 e lo stop si protrarrà almeno fino alle 16.30. Decine i voli in arrivo e in partenza deleted. Al 'Galileo' was, in particular, the poor visibility at the airport stop. In Florence, the stop is reached at around 14.30.
alert New
snowfall on virtually all of Italy, even at low and very low altitude. E 'as it provides the Air Force Weather Service has issued an alert forecast valid for 18 hours. Heavy snowfall in the plains on Liguria, Tuscany, Emilia Romagna, Lombardy, Veneto, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Marche and Umbria. Plenty of snow above 300 meters, even at Lazio, Abruzzo, Campania.
Frost from North to South
The cold weather gripping the whole peninsula, from north to south current Siberian, who has hit much of Europe continues unabated. And after the Adriatic regions and the south, it is the turn of the North. A sprinkling of snow is whitening Milan and snow is falling on roads and highways between Piedmont and Liguria and in the Ligurian hinterland but at the moment are not reported by Cciss particular problems on the road network.
Trains delayed in Lombardy
Twenty trains of the Ferrovie dello Stato, in both directions on the Milan-Como-Lecco and Milan have reported delays of up to more than 45 minutes to feeding problems, perhaps due to bad weather, the Station of Monza. E 'occurred from 11 to 12, then the situation has normalized. But around 14 other delays have accumulated on the line to Porta Genova in Milan and Pavia to Mortlake. Here, several convoys have delays of up to more than half an hour.
Alert Weather
The Civil Defence has issued a new warning to forecast a disturbance that in these hours will bring light to moderate snowfall to sea level on the north-east, initially high and moderate snowfall over of 100-300 m and locally even at sea level on Tuscany, Umbria and Marche and then up to 500-700 meters. Snow also the central regions of 200-400 meters above, with quantities also abundant on settori appenninici, sulla Sardegna al di sopra dei 400-600 metri. Per i giorni intorno a Natale non dovrebbe fare freddo e non dovrebbe nevicare sui rilievi, vi sarà però. il rischio di piogge.
Circolazione autostradale Le autostrade attualmente interessate dalle precipitazioni nevose sono: A5 Aosta-Monte Bianco tra Autoporto e Monte Bianco, A12 Genova Sestri-Levante, A26 Genova-Gravellona Toce tra il bivio con l'A10 ed il bivio per la diramazione Predosa-Bettole, A7 Genova-Serravalle S., A10 Genova-Savona tra il bivio con l'A7 ed il bivio con L'A26. Autostrade per l'Italia informa che sono attivi i mezzi operativi sgombraneve e spargisale per garantire la percorribilità autostradale. Today is expected snowfall on Tuscany, Umbria, Lazio and Abruzzo, which affected most of the A1 Milan-Naples and Rome on the A24 and A25 Aquila-Teramo Torano-Pescara.
Milan under the snow snow still on Milan without cause, at least for the time, inconvenience to traffic. In Milan polar temperatures remain around zero, and this morning the white flakes are falling on the city 'but managed' to 'attack' only on roofs and lawns. Even so, ensure the local police control center, traffic is now proceeding normally.
uncomfortable Lazio Lazio is very slow railways Roma-Lido and Rome-Viterbo because of the ice at risk suppression also Termini Gardens for problems with rolling stock. After a brief pause, the snow became, at around 12.40, the most intense areas of Fiumicino, porpoises, Fregene and Ostia. The flakes of snow began to slowly take root in the earth: the event, rare in the area of \u200b\u200bRome, and even more on the coast, is arousing curiosity among residents, many of them taking pictures Stano. The same happens at Fiumicino Airport involving passengers and operators for pictures.
whitewashed Capri Island of Capri (Naples) woke up under a blanket of snow. An island shades and the Christmas atmosphere, with roads, roofs of cars and trees and whitewashed houses. The sleet that had started to fall from 22 yesterday has turned overnight into a heavy snowfall that took the awakening the islanders and commuters coming from the mainland. Past the initial shock, however, the islanders have begun to deal with the inconvenience. In Anacapri, where snow fall is more abundant, there have been problems in the movement of public and private transport. Disruptions also in the center of Capri on the ice.
Snowing in Catanzaro She woke up in the snow the city of Catanzaro. The phenomenon, il capoluogo calabrese, è inconsueto. La neve è caduta sul centro e l'immediata periferia della città. Le temperature, in tutta la regione, restano basse.
Il Gargano batte i denti In Puglia il maltempo continua ad imperversare soprattutto sul Gargano. Qualche spruzzata di neve si è registrata anche a Bari, mentre restano molto rigide le temperature nella Murgia barese.
