Tornado rips through Cadore forests. “Like the storm Vaia.” Dozens of fallen trees

Agordino storm at eater going through it Cadoréon the afternoon of today, July 18, 2023, around 5:00 p.m. The northern part of the province ravaged by winds and rains, with similar effects, although fortunately much less, to those of storm was going Autumn 2018. The tornado hit several towns in Cadore, in the Belluno area, this afternoon, exposing the roofs of several buildings and causing the fall of trees, some of which knocked over parked cars.

Whirlwind in Cadore

In Cadoré there was one twister. Lots of unroofed roofs. Trees in the forests split in half, in the villages some fell on parked cars. Some eighty requests for intervention to the Firefighters who intervened with the emergency Belluno, with regional staff from the Verona and Treviso commands and the support of volunteers, also to secure housing. The violence of the vortex was affected by the great accumulation of energy present in the atmosphere, after many days of great heat. The meteorological event was also accompanied by hail showers.

Zaia: “Images like Vaia’s”

Governor Luca Zaia immediately contacted the mayors of the area to assess the damage to the structures. At the moment there are no injuries among people. “Some slopes of forests hit by the wind -informs the president-governor- have been demolished almost in their entirety. Images that recall, with due proportions, what happened with Vaia». Over a large part of the Belluno Dolomites, Zaia always reports, a violent wind blew up, accompanied by hail.

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