Milan hit by a water bomb, a woman is the victim. A 63-year-old woman from San Vittore Olona died following the fall of a large tree knocked down by the wave of bad weather that hit the Alto Milanese area this afternoon .
The accident occurred shortly before 5 pm today in Robecchetto, a small agricultural town in the Milan area, in the Cascina Induno area, in a wooded area that is difficult to reach for rescuers. The falling tree involved two other people, a 68-year-old woman and a 70-year-old man, who were taken to hospital with yellow code. According to what has been ascertained so far, the three were returning from a walk along the Alzaia del Naviglio when the tree, probably as a result of the storm, fell and overwhelmed them. The firefighters and the Carabinieri of the Legnano company (Milan) are intervening on the scene. Two ambulances and two medical cars were sent and the helicopter rescue also took off from Como. Attempts to save the 63-year-old were in vain.
In the meantime, due to the wave of bad weather, the firefighters have carried out about fifty interventions so far. These are mainly dangerous trees, flooded cellars and taverns and advertising billboards torn down by the strong wind.
The front of great instability has arrived from Northern Europe, a change that after the record heat brings with it the formation of "fearsome supercells: immense storm systems up to 10/12 km high within which there is a low pressure area defined, in technical terms, as a mesocyclone that causes the entire cloud body to rotate". This is explained by Mattia Gussoni, meteorologist of the website www.iLMeteo.it, who also confirms the sharp drop in temperatures especially in some regions but also possible hailstorms and strong gusts of wind up to 90-100 km/h, with the formation of events called downbursts in jargon.
An Italy that will however be divided in two. In Sardinia, Sicily and the Central South, Gussoni explains in a note, «the African anticyclone will continue to make its voice heard; in these areas - says the expert - we will still have a prevalence of sun with temperatures widely above 34-35 ° C during the hottest hours ». And he underlines that in these days « record temperatures have been reached with values of about 7-8 degrees above the reference averages. And now we risk paying a high price for this excess heat ». The increase in atmospheric temperature in fact increases the capacity of the air to retain water vapor, «and a warm and humid atmosphere can be considered as an ideal 'fuel' to trigger particularly violent storm phenomena», explains Gussoni.
(Online Union)