Florence, the homeless died from the cold. Airports closed in Puglia. Postponed opening schools in Basilicata – PHOTO – Il fatto Quotidiano

The cold makes the sixth victim in two days. In addition to the five victims of the past few hours, another homeless people died last night in the gardens of the Lungarno santa rosa to Florence. This is a man of Polish origin, and the events this morning around eight, the police and 118. The 48 year-old would have died of frostbite. It has been found by some passers-by who have called in to the rescue. The man, who had no documents, it would have been recognized by another without a fixed abode. Are in the course still investigation to ascertain what happened. Last night the temperature in Florence has reache d the 6 degrees below zero.

Meanwhile, the bad weather conditions have forced authorities to close for a few hours the airports of Toast and Bari. The pistes are white from the snow. As we know from Airports of Puglia, the situation is monitored continuously to achieve a rapid recovery of air traffic. The airports will reopen as soon as weather will allow. The Puglia region is one of the regions most affected by the wave of bad weather. Arrived in Bari, the snow from yesterday afternoon has fallen uninterrupted for several hours on different areas of the province and of those of Foggia and Barletta-Andria-Trani. By yesterday evening, also, has been blocked from hwy 96 Bari-Matera, where some of the vehicles were locked and placed sideways. OnHigh Murgia of bari there was a snowfall in intense. "In spite of the prearranged plans for dealing with the emergency, says a source toReuters – the situation is unmanageable, and very critical. Even got stuck the same means snow. The calls are many".

To deal with the bad weather, the Basilicata, which has seen a freeze this night a great part of its territory. In many parts of the region, in particular in Potenza, the temperature dropped far beyond the -10 degrees. Today, the most critical points are caused by the ice and the strong wind has created drifts of snow, high even more than a meter. Difficulties are reported to the circulation in some areas of Matera and the province, less "accustomed" to the snow, especially in the area of the murgia, on the border with Puglia. In almost all of the Basilicata region, the snowfall is less intense compared to the last two days, but the presence everywhere of ice has already led many mayors lucan to have the closing schools for Monday (the day set for the reopening after the christmas holidays): the decision also concerns the Municipality of Potenza and Matera. At the entrance of Matera and the ex statale Appia, near t he new cemetery of contrada Pantanello, in addition, some dozens of citizens have reported the interruption of the supply of electricity.

A scenario not seen in decades, Campobasso. The snow fell all night and even this morning the situation has not changed. Over a meter in the capital with the areas where the gale force wind has accumulated even more. A true emergency that few remember. "The collaboration and use the little used car": is the appeal of the mayor, Antonio Battista, which invites citizens to "avoid going out from home". "A means of plow – writes on Facebook – have difficulties to operate, due to the strong wind and the blizzard that reduces visibility to a few meters". "Let’s finish with the controversy, he adds, some of the districts are inaccessible, and some of the Common blocks." Problems also the movement of trains. For the day today Trenitalia has removed 12 runs on 18 on the Campobasso-Venafro.