Continue to rage the wave of bad weather which is scourging a large part of Italy: since Saturday it has been raining in almost all of the North and on Sunday heavy rainfall is also arriving in the Centre, especially on the Tyrrhenian side with particular problems in Rome and Lazio. However, it continues to rain in the North too, especially in the North-East and in the Alps, where the first heavy snowfall of the season also arrives at around 2.000 metres. Snow also in the Apennines, right between Lazio and Abruzzo, but only above 2.400 m. In fact, for now, temperatures are not significantly dropping, despite the bad weather: almost everywhere, in the capitals, they are between 15 and 20 degrees, in the South even above 20 degrees. On Sunday evening in some Regions, especially in the North, there was a very brief respite, but a new front immediately arrived on Monday, with intense rainfall that will again involve the whole of Central and North, no region excluded.
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Indeed, Monday will be a red alert in many Regions: the closure of schools has already taken place in almost all of Liguria, including Genoa. The red alert was decided for the expected amount of rain, but above all for the level of the streams, which is higher than yesterday when the orange alert started. Schools also closed in Venice, where high water reached 120 cm, and in Rome: the mayor Virginia Raggi has canceled the trip to Argentina for the U20, the summit of cities on the climate which will soon open in Buenos Aires.
The weather will only improve on Tuesday, when however there will be a drop in temperatures and it will snow a lot in the Alps, especially in Piedmont and Lombardy. In the night between Saturday and Sunday in the meantime solar time is back: the hands go back one hour so that the days are "shortened". In the seven months of summer time, the emission of 290 thousand tons of CO2 was avoided and electricity consumption was saved for a total value of 111 million euro, equal to 554 million kilowatt hours (as much as the average annual electricity consumption of about 205 families).
