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Hard truck 2 towns7/28/2023 Without that normal snowfall in the mountains, plains have gone dry and riverbeds, lakes and reservoirs have receded. Melting snow from the Alps, Dolomites and Apennines normally provides the steady runoff through spring and summer that fills Italy’s lakes, irrigates the agricultural heartland and keeps the Po and other key rivers and tributaries flowing. Italy’s north has been parched by two years of drought, thanks to less-than-average snowfall during the winter months. Scientists say the floods that sent rivers of mud tearing through towns in Italy’s northeast are another soggy dose of climate change’s all-or-nothing weather extremes, something that has been happening around the globe. “These are events that developed with persistence and are classified as rare,” Fabrizio Curcio, the head of Italy’s Civil Protection Agency, told reporters.Īuthorities on Friday said that 43 towns were impacted by flooding and landslides, and that more than 500 roads had been closed or destroyed.Īntonello Pasini, a climate scientist at Italy’s National Research Council, said a trend had been establishing itself: “An increase in rainfall overall per year, for example, but a decrease in the number of rainy days and an increase in the intensity of the rain in those few days when it rains,” he said. Its location between the Apennine mountains and the Adriatic Sea trapped the weather system this week that dumped half the average annual amount of rain in 36 hours.
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