infect southern Italy Medican Due to the Italian Civil Defense issuing the most severe weather warnings for parts of Sicily and neighboring Calabria. The floods don’t stop, they stop 2 deaths It also happened because the water swept people away.
Catania The mayor ordered the closure of all stores except for essential services and residents were asked to stay at home. In most places the water was cut off by the water, so schools were closed and many buildings at Garibaldi Hospital evacuated.
There were places where almost half a meter of rain fell in two days.
Cars sweep like a match with a sea of water, but even heavy buses aren’t adapted to the tides. Civil Defense sent amphibious vehicles to rescue motorists stuck in drifting cars.
The reason for the catastrophic weather is due to the fact that the central basin of the Mediterranean is dominated by the active Mediterranean cyclone, which derives its destructive energy mainly from warm sea water. Mediterranean hurricanes with this characteristic are called technical philologists, whose strength is often comparable to the strength of a hurricane of 1.
The situation is expected to worsen as the storm intensifies gradually in the second half of the week, with more heavy rain expected on Thursday and Friday, which could lead to more flooding. The problem is exacerbated by the eruption of Mount Etna, which threatens Sicily with lava, ash and rock rain.
(Cover photo: Streets flooded with torrential rain in Sicily on October 26, 2021. Photo: Antonio Parinello/Reuters)
