This is a CBSI on the world. I'm John Batchelor. To the south of France, to Paradise,

Simon Constable reporting for Barron's in the Wall Street Journal and other distinguished publications,

watching the climate of the Mediterranean Basin, and the climate of Paris in political fervor, snap elections called by President Macron for June

30th and the second round will be July 7th. Right now we're going to attend to the climate because there is a report

in London explaining to the English that the reason it's chilly is the jet stream. We're blaming the jet stream, not climate warming.

The jet stream for bringing cold air to London.

So I'm in a very good day to you.

Your English brethren are complaining about the cold.

Now, wasn't it just last year or the year before,

we were reporting on the brown lawns of the parks of London?

How is it in the south of France

inviting the English if they're chilly to come to ascertain.

Good evening to you.

Good evening to you, John.

It's fascinating.

I seem to remember every year at school and college

if being cold in the summer and it raining

and all the rest of it, it's not that unusual.

And you're right, just a couple of years ago, it was really hot in London, and the that basically it was always green lawns because you had so much rain.

Here, it's been wet and we've been talking about that for weeks,

a lot of rain coming down.

Now it seems to be just coming down at night. We're looking at the

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