Dangerous climate: heavy hailstorm in Milan

(ANSA) – MILAN, JULY 12 – A robust hailstorm, with items of ice in some instances as huge as walnuts and even billiard balls, occurred in Milan. The hailstorm, which lasted a couple of minutes, created fears as a result of violence of the hail on roofs and automobile home windows and skylights. Folks tried to take shelter underneath tents and balconies. ‘There have been items as huge as billiard balls’. In Milan, it didn’t trigger any accidents instantly hit by the items of ice. This was confirmed by 118. Many individuals took refuge underneath tents or balconies, or in service areas of their automobiles. Specific issues occurred within the San Siro space, the place a Stray Youngsters live performance is going down, with some stampedes among the many hundreds of younger individuals ready, monitored on the street by the Native Police patrols, however no accidents had been reported. No explicit accidents or flooding have been reported for the second within the metropolis, aside from some collapsed tiles and cornices. The Seveso and Lambro rivers are underneath monitoring however not in emergency. The firefighters have made a number of dozen interventions: about twenty extra severe ones within the north-west space of ​​Milan, and specifically in Cornaredo and Bareggio, the place a number of branches and even some bushes fell, damaging parked automobiles, even significantly, with out nevertheless inflicting, so far as we all know in the intervening time, accidents. (ANSA).