The succession of rainstorms throughout much of the month brought river runoff levels back to normal values.
In the northern Great Lakes region, water levels in Lake Garda returned to average in the first half of June, following on from those in lakes Maggiore and Como.
Until recently northern Italy had been grappling with a severe drought impacting water supplies and agriculture resulting from a hot, dry summer in 2022 followed by low levels of rainfall and snow last winter.
However, May brought two separate bouts of extreme rainfall the impact of which was exacerbated by the drought, causing widespread carnage that left 15 people dead in Emilia Romagna and caused billions of euros of damage.
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