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Yellow weather and flood-risk alerts cover parts of six Italian regions

Civil Protection issued yellow alerts for specified areas of Calabria, Liguria, Sardinia, Sicily, Tuscany and Piedmont for October 19.

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Italy’s Civil Protection Department bulletin, issued at 14:43 on October 18, forecasts yellow alerts in parts of six regions for Monday, October 19: Calabria, Liguria, Sardinia, Sicily, Tuscany and Piedmont. The warnings do not cover each region in full; the bulletin lists local alert zones by hazard type.

Thunderstorm risk is listed for specified areas of Calabria, Liguria, Sardinia, Sicily and Tuscany. The bulletin also identifies hydrogeological risk zones in Calabria, Piedmont, Sicily and Tuscany, and yellow hydraulic-risk alerts on Calabria’s southern Tyrrhenian and Ionian slopes.

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Yellow weather and flood-risk alerts cover parts of six Italian regions

Calabria2026-10-19Thunderstorm; hydrogeological; hydraulic
Liguria2026-10-19Thunderstorm
Sardinia2026-10-19Thunderstorm
Sicily2026-10-19Thunderstorm; hydrogeological
Tuscany2026-10-19Thunderstorm; hydrogeological
Piedmont2026-10-19Hydrogeological
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Transcribed from the October 19 forecast section of the national bulletin issued October 18 at 14:43. Hazards apply only to the local zones named in each region, not the whole region. Different hazards can overlap in the same zone.

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