Tuesday's storms also caused flights to Catania-Fontanarossa Airport to be diverted to Palermo Airport on the other side of the island due to the hazardous conditions.ДЄs residents work to clean up following the unprecedented deluge, better weather is in the forecast. AccuWeather forecasters say tornado reports poured in from Catania, Italy, and video taken by residents showed roads underwater, trees down and damaged structures downtown.

On Tuesday, severe thunderstorms impacted portions of Sicily and brought heavy rainfall, damaging winds and a possible tornado to the island. The Liguria region wasn't the only portion of Italy in the line of dangerous storms early this week. Italy's Liguria region, which is located in the northern half of the country and borders the Mediterranean Sea, was in the bull's-eye for extreme conditions. While Italy did not need a tropical system to achieve record-breaking rainfall, upsloping was likely a factor for Monday's extreme event.ДЄccuWeather forecasters say torrential rainfall from a storm moving across southern and central Europe targeted portions of Italy Monday and unleashed significant flash flooding issues. When the air is forced upwards over higher terrain, the intensity of precipitation also tends to increase.

'Because of the higher terrain, the air has nowhere to go except up.'

'Upslope flow can commonly be defined as air that is flowing towards higher terrain - such as a mountain range - and is forced to rise,' AccuWeather Meteorologist Brandon Buckingham explained.

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