#France: In the heat: Harvesting the wheat crop while watching the sunflowers surge. Simon Constable, Occitane
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🗓️ 20 July 2023
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#France: In the heat: Harvesting the wheat crop while watching the sunflowers surge. Simon Constable, Occitane
https://www.foxnews.com/world/southern-europe-prepares-heat-wave-cerberus-expects-temperatures-reach-113-degrees-fahrenheit
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| 0:19.4 | This is CBS, I'm the world. I'm John Bash. Climate. The heat wave in the |
| 0:30.2 | United States is also in Europe and I go to the South of France. So, I'm |
| 0:34.4 | in Constable, writing for barons in the Wall Street Journal and other |
| 0:37.3 | publications, but now, weathering the summer of 2023. So, I'm in a good day to |
| 0:43.9 | in Ossetane, an agricultural paradise in the South of France, surrounded by |
| 0:49.3 | farmers and their sunflower fields and their wheat fields. The heat wave is |
| 0:53.6 | said to be a dome over Europe. Moving from Spain towards Greece, their wildfires |
| 0:59.8 | reported. Now, you're in the agricultural center of the South of France. As the |
| 1:05.2 | heat been there, is there relief? Good day to you, Simon. Good day to you, John. |
| 1:10.9 | Yesterday, there was very intense heat. There is no breeze where I live or |
| 1:17.5 | hardly any breeze. So, nothing to cool you off apart from your sweat or |
| 1:22.1 | drinking lots and lots of water. It got well above 100 yesterday and remained |
| 1:29.3 | that way until quite late into the evening. It really was quite, quite |
| 1:34.1 | exceptional. Today is much cooler. It's in the 80s now and it was quite a bit |
| 1:40.4 | lower than that when I first got up around 8 this morning, but it has been |
| 1:45.2 | very hot, but it is not what people are saying about Italy and Spain and all |
| 1:51.7 | those other Mediterranean countries that are right on the Mediterranean, but a |
| 1:56.3 | bit further south, like Portugal, Greece, where it is actually deadly and it's |
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