{"id":20673,"date":"2018-11-01T16:22:15","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T16:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=20673"},"modified":"2018-11-01T16:22:15","modified_gmt":"2018-11-01T16:22:15","slug":"italy-and-neighbours-hit-by-damaging-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=20673","title":{"rendered":"Italy and neighbours hit by damaging weather"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Shortly after the Argens River burst its banks, the French weather service issued a statement on Thursday warning that “extensive flooding is possible”\u00a0in the Var department of Provence.<\/span><\/p>\n

It was not the only one.<\/p>\n

Heavy-rain warnings were also issued for already-soaked areas in Italy, Slovenia, Austria and Switzerland, while\u00a0winds of more than 120 kilometres per hour were forecast<\/span> in the Bavarian Alps, in southern Germany.<\/p>\n

A huge area of low pressure created near-hurricane conditions in parts of the western Mediterranean, during Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, causing damage in many countries.<\/p>\n

For over 11 hours on Monday, winds exceeding 100km\/h blew over the island of Corsica. Peak gusts of over 180km\/h smashed yachts into the rocks.<\/p>\n

The wind roared eastwards to the coast of Italy and focussed on the Bay of Genoa. In Rapallo harbour, yachts were destroyed – dashed against the rocks or sea wall by the wind – amid five-metre high waves.<\/p>\n

Throughout Italy, violent winds and heavy rain, with the consequent landslides, caused at least 11 deaths. At least 300 trees were blown in the centre of the capital, Rome.<\/p>\n

In Switzerland, the rain persisted for three days, during which twice the October average was dropped: 404mm fell in Mosgno, near Lake Maggiore – the lake itself rose by one metre.<\/p>\n

Austria and Slovenia had similar amounts of rain. Up in the mountains, over half a metre of snow was recorded in Curaglia, an amount typifying what appeared throughout the southern Alps.<\/p>\n

Having churned for three days, Storm Adrian – as it was named – moved quickly north across Europe and appeared in the North Sea, inducing a strong and cold northeast wind, with rain, to eastern England and Northern France – an unusual lifeline for an unusually damaging storm.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Shortly after the Argens River burst its banks, the French weather service issued a statement on Thursday warning that “extensive flooding is possible”\u00a0in the Var department of Provence. It was not the only one. Heavy-rain warnings were also issued for already-soaked areas in Italy, Slovenia, Austria and Switzerland, while\u00a0winds of more than 120 kilometres per…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":20674,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}