Florence and Pisa on alert as flooding hits Italy

There has been flooding and landslides successful parts of bluish Italy arsenic reddish alerts screen cities including Florence and Pisa.

Torrential rainfall prompted the flood alerts for parts of Tuscany and Emilia-Romagna, with dense and persistent rainfall expected into the day connected Friday.

Tuscany's president said section rescue and wellness services were connected precocious alert and advised residents to workout "the utmost attraction and caution".

Almost a month's worthy of rainfall fell successful Florence connected Friday greeting portion landslides and mudslides were reported successful Bologna, wherever immoderate residents were evacuated connected Thursday evening up of dense rainfall overnight.

No casualties person truthful acold been reported, and the metropolis said the worst of the flooding had passed by mid-morning connected Friday.

A household of 4 was rescued from a landslide successful Badia Prataglia, Tuscany connected Thursday evening, according to section media.

The nationalist occurrence brigade said it had received dozens of calls aft the Rimaggio flooded and flowed done the Sesto Fiorentino country connected Florence's bluish outskirts.

In Pisa, flood defences were being erected on the Arno stream arsenic section authorities warned it had surpassed the archetypal flood-risk level.

Roads were besides affected by flooding and fallen trees, with residents successful Florence advised against each question aft the A1 motorway was partially closed.

Schools were unopen successful much than 60 municipalities successful Tuscany, section media reported, arsenic were respective campuses of the University of Florence.

Florence has seen much than treble its mean March rainfall of 61mm successful the past 3 days.

It saw much than 53mm of rainfall successful conscionable six hours connected Friday morning, aft a further 36mm had fallen overnight.

The reddish upwind alerts - indicating superior hazard of utmost and wide flooding - were acceptable to proceed passim the day.

Further dense rainfall and thunderstorms are expected to determination crossed the bluish fractional of Italy into Saturday, earlier drier upwind begins to determination in.

An country of precocious unit successful the north-east Atlantic has successful caller days blocked the mean way of debased unit systems, which tin origin rainfall.

The systems usually walk to the UK but were sent done the Mediterranean instead.

Some rivers successful Emilia-Romagna were already swollen aft erstwhile downpours.

More than 1,000 radical were evacuated from their homes successful the north-eastern portion successful September 2024 aft it was battered by Storm Boris.

The erstwhile year, 13 radical died successful the region aft six months' worthy of rainfall fell successful a time and a half. Twenty rivers burst their banks and determination were immoderate 280 landslides.

The devastating floods brought by Storm Boris were made worse by clime change, scientists astatine the World Weather Attribution radical said.

Europe is the fastest-warming continent - which not lone brings overmuch much predominant and aggravated heatwaves, but besides much utmost rainfall.

A hotter satellite means the ambiance tin clasp much moisture, which tin pb to heavier rainfall.