After the alert in Liguria, orange alert also triggered in Campania

After the orange alert over Liguria described this morning by this newspaper in the Alla Fonte column, the weather disturbance crossing Italy shifts attention to the southern Tyrrhenian side. The Civil Protection authority of the Campania Region published a new weather alert notice on Tuesday, October 20, this time for the day of Wednesday, October 21.

The orange alert will be valid from midnight on October 21 and for the entire day, in four areas of the region: the Piana campana-Napoli-Isole-Area vesuviana, the Alto Volturno and Matese, the Penisola sorrentina-amalfitana-Monti di Sarno-Monti Picentini, and the Alta Irpinia and Sannio. In all other areas of Campania, a yellow level alert remains in effect.

The regional Civil Protection document warns of the possibility of landslides, rockfalls, surface runoff, flooding and the rising of minor waterways in the areas affected by the higher alert level. These are the same categories of hydrogeological risk already noted this morning regarding Liguria, a sign of a weather disturbance moving through several Italian regions in sequence within a few hours.

The geographic progression — from the north-western Liguria to south-central Campania in less than twenty-four hours — shows how the same weather system is imposing successive and distinct alert measures, region by region, as it moves along the Peninsula. Local administrations and the Civil Protection authority are updating the bulletins accordingly, with no single, consolidated picture currently valid for the entire national territory.

The Campania Region bulletin does not currently provide an estimate of when the orange alert phase will end, nor indications of any school or public service closures linked to the measure.