After the record-breaking flood, the bad weather in Milan granted a morning of respite. On Friday 17 May the Milanese woke up to a warm sun and the rain stopped falling, after the damage caused by the floods of Seveso and Lambro. The damage is being counted but above all the records broken by the rainfall of the last few days.
Bad weather in Milan, the record for Wednesday 15 May
A week that will inevitably go down in history. Wednesday the 15th was the wettest day in the month of May since 1899: never so much water for almost one hundred and thirty years. As much as 103.6 millimeters of rain fell in 24 hours. A situation that has alarmed not only the Municipality, but also the Lombardy region.
Bad weather in Milan
The peak intensity has been reached at 6 in the morning in Bovisa, as often happens between Seveso and Lambro: 9.4 millimeters of rain was reached in 10 minutes. In central Milan, from 5.50 to 6 in the morning 8 millimeters in 10 minutes.
Bad weather in Milan, the back and forth between Sala and Fontana
With the Lombard governor Attilio Fontana “no controversy” relating to the management of the damage from the bad weather that hit the city, “we work together and I think we’ll see each other next week”. The mayor of Milan Giuseppe Sala said this while commenting on the controversies between Common and Region on the construction of tanks to contain the floods of the Lambro and Seveso rivers.
Mayor Beppe Sala [Maltempo a Milano]«There is a bit of debate and political teasing – he added on the sidelines of an event at Palazzo Reale -. Now the situation is under control, the Bresso tank has worked well but it is clear to everyone that faced with these water bombs, which we have to get used to, even the Bresso tank will not be sufficient. Everyone’s collaboration is needed for the other tanks, including the Lombardy Region. We spoke with Fontana and the president says that we must also find the collaboration of the mayors of the other municipalities, which is true.”
«We still don’t have any damage calculations, they probably weren’t very significant but we really reached the limit. Yesterday with the firefighters, their convict and the prefect we flew over the affected areas, around Gessate, the Bresso basin and the Lambro which is still very full. We are always a bit at the limit but compared to a year ago with the Bresso pool a lot has changed”, concluded Sala.
2024-05-17 14:41:16
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