Heavy storms battered the
Italian peninsula overnight and continued Friday, causing two
injuries in Rome and bringing 137kmh winds to the Piedmontese
Alps, ANSA sources said.
Strong winds uprooted trees in various parts of the
nation's capital, where two men aged 65 and 27 were hospitalized
with head trauma and contusions to the upper body after being
hit by flying branches in two separate incidents.
In the northern region of Piedmont, winds pushing 60kmh tore
through the Susa Valley, where the town of Bardonecchia saw 28cm
of snow fall through the night.
Higher up the Alps, winds blew at 80-137kmh in various
parts of the mountain range dividing Italy from France as
temperatures plunged to -17 Celsius above the Alpine village of
Sestriere and -32 on the Monte Rosa peak.
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