10807 Anyone Affected Today???

Monterotondo station is underwater. 40 minutes instead of 6 to get to work because of an accident. Every road into Rome blocked.

Soooo...... seems like a normal day to me:laughs:

Mark

Here in southern Tuscany it's horrible, Sally. Got drenched yesterday walking a few yards from supermarket door to car in torrential downpour. Not so much rain but wind last night was diabolical, everyone in village this morning complaining they didn't sleep a wink. (So bad, I dreamt I was washed away in a tsunami, honestly....). And now it's howling a gale again too and something upstairs is banging in the breeze and I can't discover what. Pitch dark at 2.30, driving rain, cold too due to wind chill factor. We had only one brief electricity outage yesterday but it reminds me I should go light candles in house now just in case it goes again. Heaven help those who move here thinking it's sunny & summer all year round... V

Well in St Albans Hertfordshire yesterday friends had to dig out the car from under the snow to get to work. Several others sat in traffice jams along snowy roads in Hampshire. On the otherhand we went shopping without jackets, dodging the showers. The wind did get up and the road home was strewn with debris from pines but at least it hasn't snowed yet!!!

Noble, but you're not too far from me, it must be so much milder down there near Trasimeno for it's bitter here. Please don't mention snow, my neighbours were talking about this only on Monday. They all reckon it's going to be very cold winter as the signs are similar to those of previous very cold winters ('46, '56, '84...)

I HATE SNOW! Here at 627 mts. it usually falls around 20 November but goes quickly. Then a bit returns late Dec and then the real nasty stuff comes late Jan through Feb. It can lie in our meadow for 3 months if really nasty by which time I have put on half a stone. So dear Violetta please don't mention a bad winter.
When commuting regularly UK - Italy, I was amused as we flew into Bologna and people gasped at seeing snow on the fields! I do believe that English people don't realise how snowy Italy is. I did not, despite those blue and white snowflake roadsigns.

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People don't seem to realize how much it rains in Italy aswell. The strong winds were blowing rain under the front door and French windows and we were wading around inside trying to mop things up. Our main concern was the 200 Kg of olives we'd spent three days picking but fortunately they kept dry. Now we have a poor internet link, no telephone and the frantoio also has problems and can't accept our olives for another 24 hours. And it is still raining buckets. Our train line to Rome had a landslide but has now reopened. We dont have to go to rome fortunately (and who would choose to with the demonstrations) so haven't been as hard hit as commuters. They say its been 15 years since rain like this but we have experienced it many times before and neighbours always worry about the route water will take if anyone does any alterations to their land around here (Colli Albani)

At 627 I guess snow is probable,Noble, but at 400 we were taken by surprise,watched the weather and dug in for 2 days,, it was very pretty, the cats hated it, and we are not far from our village (10mins for Robert by foot..not me) and as usaual our comune were down the first day with "snow ploughs" our neighbours have animals they need to feed, cannot imagine what they do higher up, but at least they are ready for this, no "leaves on the line"!
A

Well we all then must be in the wrong place!!! lol I keep checking the meteo previsioni for Abruzzo, looks great, mid 20s still, plus sunshine. Or what about Sicily, Palermo, sunny and 27 tomorrow!!! Yeh!!! Paradise!!!

[quote=Noble;101180]I HATE SNOW! Here at 627 mts. it usually falls around 20 November but goes quickly. Then a bit returns late Dec and then the real nasty stuff comes late Jan through Feb. It can lie in our meadow for 3 months if really nasty by which time I have put on half a stone. So dear Violetta please don't mention a bad winter.
When commuting regularly UK - Italy, I was amused as we flew into Bologna and people gasped at seeing snow on the fields! I do believe that English people don't realise how snowy Italy is. I did not, despite those blue and white snowflake roadsigns.[/quote]

Well, we're approaching 600 here (I think the highest point in the town is 605) and although it gets extremely cold and very windy, with the exception of this year when it snowed heavily for a week over Easter, in recent years we've only had a few days per annum of snow, thank goodness.
No one realises that it can get quite so cold in Central Italy in the winter, I hear it all the time from friends visiting from November/March. But a very cold spell is often followed by a period of wonderfully sunny days and highs possibly in the low 20s. Having lived for years in a country where it was either hot or very hot, I love the unpredictability, though not this incessant wind we're experiencing at present!

And today in Puglia at 356 meters abowe sea level, 21,8 degrees, partly sunny and practically no wind at all. Rained last night tough, but then we slept!
Looks like we are going to have nice weather and temps. above 20 for another week.
Eat your hearts out.

I have just rung my pal in Terracina, 1 hour south of Rome to see how he weathered the storms. There weren't any!!! lol

It rained a lot the night before last & was really windy all day yesterday- dried my sheets in an hour (before it tried to whip 'em off down the valley!)

We have seen the floods in and around Rome on the TV at the Pizzeria but we have never ever seen rain and floods like those we experienced in Noto Sicily last November. Main roads became rivers. Bolders crashed down to the road from fields above and the suburban streets were ankle deep in water....when it rains it's like this they said to us!!! Our small dog insisted on being carried as we waded back to our hotel having stood in someones porch for 2 hours, having failed to get to a resturant for supper!

Our area had enormous wind through Wedneday night...I awoke to the sound of an express train rushing through our front yard....we have 4 40 ft oaks that were whipping and lashing dangerously close to an overhead power cable..the oaks are about 25foot from our front door! i stayed awake to watch, listen to the storm. I heard things whizzing past our balcony and the shutters banging against the wall. My plants and trees, in pots below lay on their side. Our cat, Beamish, who's twenty wailed at the balcony door. so I let her out..She didn't linger, amd I'm sure I saw her lifted off all fours...could have been that I was still half asleep though, at least I don't have to brush her this morning!
When we arose, it was to devistation...plants lost, scaffold planks whipped up and thrown across the grass, newly swon seeds emptied, lemon trees stripped of new flowers, ripening clementines thrown from the tree, tarpaulins covering wood pile at the bottom of the valley, and...the death of a caravan..sob
Sprat

Oh Sprat...as I have been there and had that happen...heartbreaking. I truly feel so sorry for you. I hope the Lemons you were minding for a friend are OK? I wondered where in the Abruzzo you are to have such a wind? For us such things happen mid summer "a tromba d'aria" and we never manage to prepare in time. So it's off to Deruta once more for new terracotta pots not to mention replacing the canvass pergola cover we didn't take down.