Italy was in the grips of extreme
weather including heavy rainfall, strong winds and avalanches on
Monday, with cyclone Fedra raging especially in the north.
Two regions, Emilia Romagna and Piemonte, were on orange alert
for bad weather and 13 - Abruzzo, Basilicata, Calabria,
Campania, Molise, Apulia, Lazio, Lombardy, Sardinia, Sicily,
Tuscany, Umbria and Veneto - were on the lower yellow level.
In the north-western Alpine Val d'Aosta region, more than 6,000
people living in the upper Gressoney valley have been isolated
since Sunday due to avalanches.
Further south in the Tyrrhenian coastal region of Liguria
landslides were reported in and around Genoa.
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