2 minutes ago! Italy closes all seaports! Colosseum in ruins! 66,000 without electricity!

Torrential rains, combined with dry soil from an unrelenting have led to significant flash flooding in these regions. Such large cities have experienced serious disruptions in the transport infrastructure, streets are flooded with water, and metro stations are closed. The rough sea in front of Ponza, the ferry that connects the island with Formia, is at the mercy of the waves. The ship bound for Formia left an hour late today. In the late afternoon he was still on his way, leaving Ponza at 3:30 pm. Arrival is expected around in Formia. Gusts of wind were also recorded near , due to which the railways were suspended. A strong thunderstorm injured another dozen due to falling trees and collapsed roofs. That same storm produced wind gusts in excess of 130 miles per hour, Bad weather is raging in Lazio, but not only. Severe storm surge across Italy and snow even at very low altitudes. storm winds with cyclonic rotation around the low between Basilicata and Campania. Wind gusts up to 100 km / h in the lower part of the Tyrrhenian Sea, the Sicilian, Ionian, Adriatic straits and, as a result, strong storm surges along the open coasts. The situation is less critical in the westernmost basins and in the upper Tyrrhenian Sea. deepened in the region of Tirrenia over the past few hours, has acquired the features of a real cyclone. The wind surrounding it reached and sometimes exceeded gusts of up to 100 km/h, and the sea was stormy.