what to expect – The Weather

First weekend of August with black alert on Italian roads and highways, with an exodus to holiday resorts that will experience its second wave between Saturday 10 and Sunday 11 August when there will be black alert phases again. In the meantime, the heat is relentless, with eight cities with red alert (the highest alert level) on both Saturday and Sunday: these are Campobasso, Florence, Frosinone, Latina, Perugia, Rieti, Rome and Viterbo. The most delicate moments for traffic will be the mornings of Saturday 3 and 10 August, both marked with black alerts, the State Police announced, and it will remain heavy on Sundays. In the week of Ferragosto, always considered the one with the highest presence of holidaymakers in holiday resorts, travel is expected to begin on Wednesday 14 August, with sustained intensity in the afternoon and morning of August 15 also with many local trips.

The first returns from vacation will begin on Saturday 17 and Sunday 18 August. In the meantime, the data for the last weekend of July is arriving and there is a record: on Friday 26 July, 200,079 transits were recorded on the entire Autostrade Alto Adriatico network, and there have never been so many in a single day on the toll network of the A4 (Venice-Trieste), A23 (Udine Sud-Palmanova), A34 (Villesse-Gorizia), A28 (Portogruaro-Pordenone-Conegliano), A57 (Tangenziale di Mestre up to Terraglio). Tomorrow, the same network could reach 190,000 transits (numbers close to the previous Saturday) with peaks of 24,000 exiting at Lisert.

Also on the Anas network for the first weekend of August, traffic is expected to constantly increase, in particular along the Adriatic, Tyrrhenian and Ionian backbones and along the border crossings towards France, Slovenia and Croatia, and exiting urban centers. Viabilità Italia provides for a black sticker. To streamline traffic, from tomorrow until September 3, Anas will suspend 906 construction sites, 70% of those active today (1278). The ban on the transit of heavy vehicles is in force today from 4 pm to 10 pm, tomorrow Saturday 3 August from 8 am to 10 pm and Sunday 4 August from 7 am to 10 pm. The movements of Italians will also be affected by the changes to the circulation of trains, including high-speed ones, for infrastructure improvement works, in particular on the Turin-Milan-Venice, the Milan-Bologna AV line and the Rome-Florence Direttissima.