Bad weather Sicily and Medicane, red weather alert today and tomorrow

Red weather alert for areas of Sicily and Calabria also tomorrow, Saturday 30 October, for the risks associated with the Medicane, the Mer-Mediterranean hurricane. The forecasts still refer to pouring rain with persistent thunderstorms and gusts of wind in particular on the Ionian slopes. Read also SICILY The Sicilian Regional Civil Protection has released an update of the meteorological and hydrogeological risk forecasts for the next few hours: a high alert situation is described throughout the island, “with adverse weather conditions, heavy rainfall and storm winds, especially in the eastern sector “. And right on eastern Sicily the red alert remains. In the last hours, rainfall especially in the Syracusano and Ragusa areas. But there is no particular damage other than the closure to traffic along the Statale 114 in the Priolo Gargallo area, in the province of Arezzo. Right in Syracuse there are hundreds of requests for intervention to the fire brigade switchboard for flooding of roads and buildings, unsafe trees, broken down car. The requests are mainly related to the northern part of the province. “Citizens, stay home”. was the appeal launched by the new mayor of Augusta, Giuseppe Di Mare, after the reconnaissance of the streets flooded by bad weather. “The city traffic is on its knees – he said – The situation is difficult”. The A18 Messina-Catania motorway section between Tremestieri and Roccalumera was reopened to traffic this morning: it had been closed due to the fall of a boulder of over a ton that slipped from the hill near the town of Scaletta. The rolling rock had invaded the valley lane on which the two-way traffic was in force because the upstream lane was closed due to road surfacing interventions CALABRIA In Calabria, bad weather still expected from the evening of Friday 29 October. On the basis of the weather conditions, therefore, the red alert on the central Ionian sector of the region was evaluated for today and tomorrow.