MILAN: Several Italian cities were on high alert on Sunday after heavy rain overnight, including Venice where residents and tourists were braced for another exceptional high tide.
The city, which suffered its worst flooding in 50 years on Tuesday, will face a high tide at around 160cm at 1200 GMT, the city's centre for forecasting tides said.Authorities in Florence and Pisa were also closely monitoring the Arno river, whose water levels rose rapidly in the night due to heavy rain.Tourists walk in St. Mark’s Square after days of severe flooding in Venice, Italy, November 17, 2019.
The mayor of Venice, Luigi Brugnaro, said on Saturday that the city was preparing for another"tough day". However, he said the situation was expected to be less dramatic than Tuesday when the flooding left squares, shops, homes and hotels inundated.Brugnaro, who has been appointed special commissioner to deal with the emergency, estimated damages from the flooding in the city since Tuesday at around 1 billion euros .
On Tuesday the tide peaked at 187cm at 10.50pm , just short of the record 194cm set in 1966. In normal conditions, tides of 80-90cm are generally seen as high but manageable. Italy's longest river, the Po, which runs across northern Italy passing through Turin, was also being monitored on Sunday after its level rose by a metre and a half in the last 24 hours due to heavy rain.
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