video of the tornado in Catania

Blogger reports that there were injuries in Catania from the tornado that ripped off roofs and felled trees in Motta Sant'Anastasia See video below.



I wrote about a storm in Motta Sant'Anastasia being simply, heavy rain and high winds, I was wrong, it was a tornado.

Sicily, returns again to deal with the weather, but as more and more often in recent years, it is not simply a bad time. In the early afternoon of Monday 14 December, moist and unstable currents southeast have thickened the eastern Sicily a lot of moisture and energy to trigger violent thunderstorms.

This time, the area chosen by the "monster storms" was the Catanese, especially the eastern Etnea most exposed to this type of currents. As can be seen from a map of lightning strikes, the radar indicated severe thunderstorms on these areas with lightning striking. Cells storm, marching northward, tended to expand and swell, but only one case did not get through the Messina Strait.

I dreaded cumulonimbus have been responsible for heavy rains, but the most serious occurred between 15.30 and 16.00 as a whirlwind sowed panic and terror, especially among Motta Santa Anastasia, 15 kilometers from the capital, with many roofs that were unroofed, trees uprooted, billboards and killed. Metal plates have been reported in 'flight' on the highway Catania-Palermo, near the intersection for Motta S. Anastasia. In Catania, the districts most affected were those of the district and marinara Pigno Vaccarizzo. A storm also flooded several underpasses in the area of floor board Misterbianco. Lid off the hangar of the base of Air Force helicopters Maristaeli.

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