About 100 passengers, some Italian, were stranded at the Beauvais Paris airport on Saturday after Ryanair cancelled their flight to Pisa, Italy. The cause of the mishap are probably snow and the temporary closure of the Tuscan airport of Pisa.
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First flakes of snow on Florence
The icy storm going through Italy reached Florence today. Flakes of snow fell in the city in the first morning. At the moment, no disruption to traffic are recorded. As a result of cold air coming from Greenland a white mantle had held the hills around the city during the night, the temperatures are currently below zero.
The wave of bad weather lashing Tuscany
The wave of bad weather lashing Tuscany since early Tuesday morning hasn’t spared the Grosseto area and, in particular, the Albinia and Orbetello districts, hard hit by the floods of 12 November. Rainfall forced a temporary closure Tuesday of the rail line between the cities of Florence and Pisa.
Four killed in wave of bad weather in Tuscany
The wave of bad weather that has gripped large areas of central and northern Italy since the weekend claimed three more lives overnight. The three, who were killed near the Grosseto province town of Marsiliana d’Albegna, were said to have been on their way to a job.
Stormy weather, high level alert in Tuscany
People were evacuated as a pre-emptive measure due to bad weather on the board between Liguria and Tuscany. The situation remains critical across Italy’s Massa Carrara province, where heavy rains caused landslides, landslips, and flooding overnight. Some streets are flooded to the point where they have turned into streams.
Cyclone Cleopatra to bring heavy storms over Tuscany
“Cleopatra”, a Mediterranean cyclone, will usher autumn into Italy. Generated by the clash between the cold air moving southwards from the Arctic to Spain and Morocco and the warm air from the Saharan hinterland, Cleopatra will become strongest between Monday evening and Tuesday morning.
Heavy rainfalls expected on Monday in Florence
The weather alert is coming to Florence. Atlantic perturbations brought rain to the Alps and the northern regions. Other perturbations will briefly pass through the north-eastern and central-souther areas of the country, bringing with them sudden storms. The city mobility commissioner, Massimo Mattei, urges people to be careful and to reduce as far as possible the movements.
Tuscany has a first taste of autumn starting Sunday
With today’s temperatures reaching a warm 27 degrees Celsius at several cities throughout the peninsula, Ilmeteo chief forecaster, Antonio Sano’, says the arrival of this month’s third Atlantic weather front, “Cloe”, will bring rain to north-west Italy’s Piedmont later tonight. Cloe is expected to bring rain to northern and central Italy tomorrow.
Weather alert: strong t’storm in Tuscany
Strong thunderstorms are expected tomorrow (September 12, 2012) in Tuscany. In the early hours of morning thunderstorms will affect the northern part of the region – Lunigiana, Garfagnana, Versilia, Mugello – and the other part of Tuscany during the afternoon and the night.
“Poppea” is expected to come with rain
End of August under the rain. Raining already in the Northwestern regions and the Alps; now Northbound. These are the first major signs of weather changing. Tomorrow Pompea, the cyclonic vortex, is expected, the first autumn storm, with rainfall and storms from the Northwestern regions and Tuscany, bound to the central regions downh to Campania in the evening.