Wildfire in Italy causes major problems at airport
Below is an excerpt from a Reuters article about how smoke from a wildfire partially shut down the runways at an airport near Rome (map) on Wednesday. **** “Rome’s Fiumicino airport resumed full...
View ArticleFires in Sicily and on Italian mainland — tourists evacuated by boat, slopes...
Above: Satellite photo from July 12, 2017 showing smoke from fires burning near Mount Vesuvius in Italy. The red dots represent heat from the fires. NASA. (Originally published at 11:40 a.m. MDT July...
View ArticleFascinating cloud images
A couple of similar fascinating photos of clouds are floating around on Twitter, supposedly showing a cumulonimbus cloud near Genoa, or “Genova”, Italy shot by Roberto Orlando. One of them, #1 below,...
View ArticleTwo students ordered to pay $15 million each for starting wildfire in Italy
Two 22-year old students accused of accidentally starting a wildfire have each been fined €13,500,000 ($15,200,000). The fire burned about 1,000 hectares (2,470 acres) near Lake Como in Italy, ignited,...
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