Life-threatening flash flooding in Catania, Sicily 🇮🇹
Enormous rainfall totals have fallen under slow moving thunderstorms.
🎥 via @3BMeteo
You can see the thunderstorms piling into the east coast of Sicily all day, wrapped around a broader circulation from a developing cyclone to the south.
Catania (home to over 500,000 people) was in the bullseye for near constant thunderstorms today.
Sat via @metdesk/@eumetsat
Truly horrific scenes emerging from Catania, Sicily 🇮🇹
Continuous thunderstorms today have turned the streets into raging rivers.
Via 🎥 @myrtamerlino
Over 300 mm of rain has fallen in parts of eastern Sicily in the last 48 hours.
Not out of the woods yet either.
Data via SIAS: sias.regione.sicilia.it/frameset_pcum0…
And it looks like one site in eastern Sicily has recorded over 600 mm of rain in the past 72 hours.
Data via SIAS: sias.regione.sicilia.it/frameset_pcum0…
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