New Weather Stations installed in Ravenna to strengthen climate risk monitoring
15/06/2026
The Municipality of Ravenna has taken an important step forward in improving its capacity to monitor and respond to extreme weather events, thanks to new installations carried out within the Interreg Italy–Croatia STRENGTH project.
In recent years, Ravenna has experienced increasingly intense and sudden rainfall events - known as cloudbursts - which have caused flooding and disruption in several urban and coastal areas. To address these growing challenges, the Municipality has installed three new weather monitoring stations in strategic locations: Sant’Alberto, Porto Corsini, and Lido Adriano.
These stations are equipped with sensors measuring rainfall, wind speed and direction, temperature, and humidity, with two sites also featuring PTZ cameras for real‑time visual monitoring.
All data are transmitted to the municipal WinNET7 platform, enabling continuous analysis and the automatic dispatch of alerts to on‑call personnel during severe weather conditions.
In parallel, the Municipality is finalizing an agreement to integrate data from up to 40 additional regional monitoring stations managed by public authorities such as the Emilia‑Romagna Region and the Romagna Land Reclamation Consortium.
This will create a significantly expanded and more comprehensive monitoring network, without the need for additional hardware installations.
Together, these actions strengthen Ravenna’s ability to anticipate and manage weather‑related risks, support emergency response operations, and inform long‑term planning strategies aimed at increasing resilience to climate change and hydraulic hazards.
