Violent downpours in the North with one victim, while the South faces record heat waves

Violent downpours in the North with one victim, while the South faces record heat waves
One of the photos posted on social media by the mayor of Modena Massimo Mezzetti about the damage caused by bad weather, July 15, 2026 Facebook / Massimo Mezzetti +++   ANSA

Storms in Triveneto, downpours in Emilia-Romagna with wind gusts over 100 km/h and in Lombardy with a tornado in the Bergamo area, sun and extreme temperatures in the rest of Italy.

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Italy is split in two, but only until tomorrow, as drawn by the weather forecasts that have come true on time. In fact, by Thursday bad weather will cease to be the protagonist in the North, where, as already in the rest of the country, unfortunately, it should return to suffocate.

The red alerts from the Ministry of Health, after all, do not lie: today the cities with the highest heat risk level for the population are 7 but tomorrow they will soar to 15 and on Friday they will become 16.

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But the bad weather that battered northern Italy also caused damage, with fallen trees and floods, and recorded a victim. Under the downpour that hit Emilia Romagna in Bomporto, in the Modena area, a person died crashing their car into another vehicle traveling in the opposite direction.

The thermal escalation, according to Lorenzo Tedici, meteorologist at iLMeteo.it, will continue until the weekend. Indeed, 45°C is expected in the inland areas of Sardinia, 42°C in Nuoro, 41°C in Caltanissetta, Foggia and Oristano, 40°C in Florence, Terni and Matera, 37°C in Rome and 36°C in Milan.

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