This is

I in the world. I'm John Batford to Lorenzo Fiore of the Anseava Foundation.

He is in Lui now on Lake Majora in Northern Italy,

is about to take a steam locomotive train to Switzerland to

LeCarno which gives me an occasion to ask how is the weather can you see the mountaintops in Switzerland? Are they white with snow?

And is the weather in Northern Italy continued wet or is it beautiful because it's summertime.

Lorenzo, a very good evening to you.

How's your weather?

Good evening, John, and good evening, told the radio listener from Luino on the Lake

Majori. Well, the weather here in Luino is nice today fortunately there is

sunshine I just arrived here and let me tell you that the weather is improving in

the north of Italy I mean after three weeks of heavy

rainfalls the sunshine is across all the northern territory and in the south the weather is pretty critical because the drought is a really a severe problem.

There is no rain in springtime, there is no rain and the temperature are now up to

104 Fahrenheit degrees so very very hot to summertime we don't know what

will happen in the north in the next two weeks about the expectation that the weather becomes more stable.

I've talked to the Black Sea in these last hours.

It's very hot in Romania, unusually hot. It has been hot in Budapest, it has been hot in

Prague, very hot. So that when I talked to people this last week, they're complaining about the heat. You have not had that in Northern

Italy, but that's the heat that's in Southern Italy, and I'm told this is unusual,

which is why we're watching it. This isn't just a weather report. The question is, is the

climate changing? The answer so far, it might be maybe. So we go from the climate, the weather climate to the political climate. Georgia Maloney is your very

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