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16. Weather

Here’s Catania, which I know well, having been there quite a few times:

🚨 Severe flooding in Catania in Sicily, Italy today. Mayor Enrico Trantino issued an ordinance suspending school lessons at all levels and closing public parks and gardens throughout the city.

📹 Rosanna Sapienza pic.twitter.com/diMcfx7N9M

— Volcaholic 🌋 (@volcaholic1) October 19, 2024

And in Limony, en Ardèche:

Incredible video showing a log-jam forming under a bridge in the town of Limony in France causing the River to overflow rapidly in a wave-like surge…pic.twitter.com/MeYRM3fh8n

— Volcaholic 🌋 (@volcaholic1) October 19, 2024

Uh huh … and in Liverpool?

Map shows ‘wall of rain’ as danger to life ‘likely’ in Storm Ashley’s 80mph winds, Met Office warns

There is “a good chance” of power cuts in that area which could affect mobile phone coverage and buildings will probably be damaged

Met Office meteorologist Aidan McGivern said on Friday evening: “At the time of recording, Storm Ashley is on the other side of the Atlantic and a relatively shallow area of low pressure.

“It deepens rapidly as it gets picked up by the jet stream during Saturday and ends up as a particularly deep area of low pressure, with a widespread swathe of gales and wind gusts in excess of 60mph for many western and northern parts of the country.”

Uh huh-huh. Here’s our forecast today:

To be a tad more honest, this is us tomorrow morn: