The strong rainfall in Valais and Ticino did not cause any major damage until early Wednesday afternoon. However, the Valais authorities continued to warned of floods, rock falls and lands on.
This content was published on 16. April 2025 – 13:00
(Keystone-SDA) The cantonal leadership organ (KFO) recommended the population in the affected areas on Wednesday not to go close to waters, to restrict journeys and movements, not to film or photograph events, and to avoid the basement and underground garages during floods.
The intensive rainfall is expected to last until Thursday afternoon. For the Rhone, the authorities expect an increase in the drain from night to Thursday.
Even in small and medium river waters, the water levels can increase sharply. The most striking climbs are predicted for the Nordtessin and the Oberwallis and between Wednesday evening and Thursday evening.
-Only the start of the compensation
In parts of the Ticino Maggiatal, between 60 and 90 millimeters rain since Tuesday evening. According to information from Meteoschweiz, this is only the beginning of a dam that affects the southern Simplon area, the Saastal and Ticino.
The western Maggiatal, the Onsernone Valley and the Centovalli are affected in Ticino, Luca Panziera from MeteoSwweiz said on Wednesday at the request of the Keystone-SDA news agency.
Between Tuesday evening 6 p.m. and Wednesday 6 a.m. 30 to 70 millimeter rain, as can be seen from the federal natural hazardbulletin, between 6:00 p.m. and Wednesday in the southern Valais Alps. The snow line was between 1900 and 2300 meters.
For the southern Simplon area, the Upper Saastal and the Binntal, the highest of five storms of the federal government applied. According to predictions from the Federal Office of Meteorology and Climateology (meteoschweiz), rainy amounts between 150 and 250 millimeters and snow quantities above 2000 meters from 60 to 120 centimeters are expected.
