Overview
- Authorities maintain red alerts across large areas of Sardinia, Sicily and parts of Calabria, with gusts near 110–120 km/h and offshore waves reaching 8–9 meters.
- Hundreds have been evacuated, including about 190 people in Sicily and families moved from Torpè along the Rio Posada in Sardinia, with care home residents relocated from seafront zones.
- Coastal flooding and transport disruptions intensified as seawater entered suburbs near Cagliari, the SS195 was closed, ferries were halted at Cagliari and Olbia and to the Eolie, and access to Caprera was shut.
- Civil protection mobilization expanded with roughly 200 departmental staff, 1,000 volunteers and 5,000 municipal and state personnel deployed, and around 200 Sicilian towns activating emergency operations centers.
- Local incidents underline the risk profile as two shepherds missing in Ogliastra were found safe after a torrent overflow and a driver was injured when a seafront sinkhole opened in Santa Teresa di Riva.