{"id":239543,"date":"2025-03-17T19:03:09","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T16:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pogodnik.com\/?p=239543"},"modified":"2025-03-17T19:03:09","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T16:03:09","slug":"italy-s-florence-drowns-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pogodnik.com\/en\/news\/italy-s-florence-drowns-2025","title":{"rendered":"Italy\u2019s Florence Drowns in a Month\u2019s Rain Overnight"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>From Dry Streets to Deadly Deluge: Italy\u2019s Florence Drowns in a Month\u2019s Rain Overnight!<\/h1>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-239544\" src=\"https:\/\/pogodnik.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/flood-italy.webp\" alt=\"Drowns\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pogodnik.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/flood-italy.webp 1280w, https:\/\/pogodnik.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=300,height=169,fit=crop,quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/flood-italy.webp 300w, https:\/\/pogodnik.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=600,height=338,fit=crop,quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/flood-italy.webp 600w, https:\/\/pogodnik.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=768,height=432,fit=crop,quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/flood-italy.webp 768w, https:\/\/pogodnik.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=150,height=84,fit=crop,quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/flood-italy.webp 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Italy\u2019s been hit hard, folks\u2014floods are wreaking havoc after nearly a month\u2019s worth of rain slammed parts of the country in a single day. On Friday, March 14, 2025, Florence and Pisa turned into waterlogged chaos as torrential downpours triggered swollen rivers, landslides, and widespread damage. Red alerts blared across Tuscany and Emilia-Romagna, with the Arno River\u2014flowing through both iconic cities\u2014threatening to burst its banks. This isn\u2019t just a sprinkle; it\u2019s a full-on weather nightmare that\u2019s left Italy scrambling.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ast-oembed-container \" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Italy Today! Flash flood in Tuscany Washed Away Homes and Cars, People Trapped\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ew2bFAOfNJg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Florence took the brunt of it, clocking over 53 mm (2.1 inches) of rain in just six hours Friday morning, on top of 36 mm (1.4 inches) overnight. That\u2019s more than double the city\u2019s average March rainfall of 61 mm (2.4 inches), all in three days! Museums, schools, and theaters shut down, while the A1 motorway partially closed as roads drowned under floodwaters and fallen trees. In nearby Sesto Fiorentino, the Rimaggio stream overflowed, turning streets into rivers and prompting 430 emergency calls in 24 hours. Over 500 firefighters raced to rescue families, secure teetering trees, and battle mudslides.<\/p>\n<h2>Italy Drowns: A Deluge Turns Paradise into Peril<\/h2>\n<p>Italy\u2019s stunning landscapes turned into a watery nightmare as relentless rain drowns cities like Florence and Pisa under a month\u2019s worth of rainfall in just one day. On March 14, 2025, the Arno River swelled dangerously, threatening to engulf historic streets, while the Rimaggio stream in Sesto Fiorentino overflowed, submerging neighborhoods in a muddy torrent. Homes, roads, and hopes were swallowed by the floodwaters, leaving residents stranded and emergency crews racing to keep the disaster at bay. It\u2019s not just a soaking\u2014Italy drowns in chaos as nature unleashes its fury, proving that even the most picturesque places aren\u2019t immune to a deluge of this magnitude.<\/p>\n<p>Pisa wasn\u2019t spared either\u2014flood defenses went up along the Arno as it breached its first risk level. Up north, Emilia-Romagna\u2019s rivers, already bloated from earlier rains, spilled over in Bologna, Ravenna, and Ferrara, forcing evacuations of ground-floor homes Thursday night. Landslides hit hard too; a family of four in Badia Prataglia, Tuscany, narrowly escaped disaster Thursday evening. The national fire brigade\u2019s been stretched thin, racing between Florence, Prato, Pisa, and Livorno to keep people safe.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s behind this mess? A high-pressure system in the northeast Atlantic has shoved low-pressure systems off their usual <a href=\"https:\/\/pogodnik.com\/en\/weather-in-world\/77-united-kingdom\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"123\" title=\"Weather in UK\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UK<\/a>-bound path, redirecting them straight through the Mediterranean. Italy\u2019s rivers, primed by prior downpours, couldn\u2019t handle Friday\u2019s onslaught. In Florence, the Arno peaked Friday afternoon, but officials say the worst subsided by mid-morning\u2014though saturated ground and more rain forecast for Saturday, March 15, kept everyone on edge. Drier weather\u2019s expected to creep in after that, offering some relief.<\/p>\n<p>No deaths have been reported yet, thank goodness, but the damage is real. Tuscany\u2019s president urged \u201cutmost caution,\u201d and Governor Eugenio Giani called Sesto Fiorentino the crisis hotspot. Schools closed across 60+ municipalities, and the University of Florence shut campuses. Bologna saw evacuations Thursday as a precaution, with mudslides adding to the chaos. This is spring weather on steroids\u2014beautiful Italy turned into a soggy, slippery mess overnight.<\/p>\n<p>So, what\u2019s Flood Friday all about? It\u2019s a brutal reminder that nature doesn\u2019t mess around. One day you\u2019re sipping espresso in Florence, the next you\u2019re wading through your living room. The rain\u2019s easing, but the cleanup\u2019s just beginning\u2014Italy\u2019s got a fight ahead to dry out and dig out from this deluge.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pogodnik.com\/en\/ukweather\/storm-conrad-and-snow-in-europe-weather-forecast-for-march-12-19\">Weather in EU March 2025<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Italy\u2019s been hit hard, folks\u2014floods are wreaking havoc after nearly a month\u2019s worth of rain slammed parts of the country in a single day. On Friday, March 14, 2025, Florence and Pisa turned into waterlogged chaos as torrential Drowns triggered swollen rivers, landslides, and widespread damage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":239544,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,6649],"class_list":["post-239543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-nature-disasters","tag-flood","tag-rainfall"],"acf":[],"wpml_data":{"original_post_id":239543,"trid":"1434042","lang":"en","source_lang":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pogodnik.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pogodnik.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pogodnik.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pogodnik.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pogodnik.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pogodnik.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pogodnik.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pogodnik.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pogodnik.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}