Bad weather, wind gusts up to 100 kilometres an hour. Closed gardens, and cemeteries – The Nation

Florence, 17 January 2017 – Even the Tuscany is boost from the wave of bad weather that is investing Italy. Conditions weather adverse that, according to the forecast, are likely to intensify further in the coming hours. L’warning-orange, taken from yesterday evening, has brought the snow on all the reliefs, and strong wind and cold, which it also drops many degrees the temperature causing dangerous sheets of ice on the roads, especially in the early hours of the morning and in the evening.

The risk of snow will remain until tomorrow. The means salt spreaders and spalaneve to work from hours. To Florence, where it is recommended to limit the movement, today will closed for security reasons, all the parks and municipal gardens. In the rest of the region, on the hills of arezzo, the steps are open. To Lawn closed all the schools, as well as outdoor sports facilities, green areas, parks and public gardens and cemeteries. To Livorno closed the public parks. On the Appennino Pistoiese and Prato, as the Mugello, of the florentine hills, on the rest of arezzo, Siena, Grosseto, possible snowfalls, locally abundant in the vicinity of mount Amiata.

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the WIND – “In the night”, one reads in a note of the civil protection of the City of Florence -you are the registered gusts of north-east up to 110 km/h in the mountains and up to 77 km/h on the flat. In the next 3-6 hours will include blasts of the north-east up to 80-100 km/h in the plains and gusts up to 120-140 km/h on hills of the apennines. Snowfall has affected the apennine foothills of our territory during the night hours. In the next few hours will still be likely to snow on the areas subject to the alert (Mugello). The teams of the service roads of the City Metro are working to ensure the kind of vehicle, of the roads under the jurisdiction. It recalls the obligation of the at the winter-mounted or on-board, and recommends utmost caution to guide”.

CLOSED BOBOLI gardens – The garden of the medici of florence, today will closed for bad weather. Is what is learned from the site of the Galleries of the Uffizi. Due to the announced bad weather conditions, it explains, for security reasons, the Boboli gardens will be closed for the day of January 17. In the event that the weather situation remains critical, the closure will continue to the day, January 18.

From the website of the Union of Municipalities, www.uc-mugello.fi.it in the area of civil Protection (then click on the section "What to do in case of"), is available and downloadable the guide for snow and ice with the general rules of behavior for the citizens. For more and further information you can contact the Centre for inter-municipal civil Protection Mugello, tel 055 8496283. Updates and info also on the page Facebook the Office Associated with civil Protection at the Mugello circuit.