Bad weather in Italy, stop the heat: weather alerts for strong thunderstorms. The regions affected

The weather alert issued concerns some specific areas of five regions. These are Abruzzo, Basilicata, Calabria, Molise and Puglia.

Italy seems to be divided in two, given that there is talk of weather alerts for several regions from the Center to the Center-South. For the islands, especially in Sicily, there is more talk of a red bulletin for the heat than of bad weather. A new yellow weather alert, in fact, has been issued by the Civil Protection for Wednesday 24 July in some areas of Central-Southern Italy.

L’Weather Alert branched out affects some specific areas of five regions. These are Abruzzo, Basilicata, Calabria, Molise and Puglia. The warning concerns, as usual for this type of warning, the hydraulic, storm and hydrogeological risk. As is usual, with due precision, the Civil Protection publishes the criticality bulletin with weather alerts on its website on a daily basis.

For Wednesday 24 July, the regions at risk and the areas indicated by the yellow weather alert are the following and are divided by type of risk, always with a yellow alert.

With regard to the ordinary criticality for hydraulic risk we have Calabria, the central-northern Ionian side, the central-southern Ionian side, the northern Ionian side, the southern Ionian side.

With regard to the ordinary criticality for storm risk there are many more regions: Abruzzo, in particular the Tordino Vomano Basins, the Aterno Basin, Marsica, the Pescara Basin, the Upper Sangro Basin; Basilicata, Bases-A2, Bases-A1, Bases-E2, Bases-D, Bases-E1, Bases-C, Bases-B. Then we still have Calabria, always on the Central-Northern Ionian Slope, the Central-Southern Ionian Slope, the Northern Ionian Slope, the Southern Ionian Slope; Molise, Frentani – Sannio – Matese, Upper Volturno – Middle Sangro; Puglia: Lower Ofanto, Lower Fortore, Gargano and Tremiti, Tavoliere – lower basins of Candelaro, Cervaro and Carapelle, Basins of Lato and Lenne, Central Adriatic Puglia, Salento, Central Bradanica Puglia, Daunia Sub-Apennines.

Yellow alert for hydrogeological risk in Abruzzo, Tordino Vomano Basins, Aterno Basin, Marsica, Pescara Basin, Upper Sangro Basin; Calabria, Central-Northern Ionian Slope, Central-Southern Ionian Slope, Northern Ionian Slope, Southern Ionian Slope; Puglia, Lower Ofanto, Lower Fortore, Gargano and Tremiti, Tavoliere – lower basins of Candelaro, Cervaro and Carapelle, Lato and Lenne Basins, Central Adriatic Puglia, Salento, Central Bradanica Puglia, Daunia Sub-Apennines.

For tomorrow the forecast tell a scenario dominated by mostly clear or partly cloudy weather conditions. The most intense showers will be possible starting from the eastern Alps, on the western Emilian Apennines and on the reliefs of the Center-South.