I'm John Batcher with Jeff Bliss, my dear colleague and co-host. He is Pacific Watch.

We are now going to watch Italy because we're welcoming Lorenzo Fiore, my colleague and friend of many years, reporting from Italy.

And these last days, the excitement has been building towards the Winter Olympics.

However, in the meantime, Lorenzo and I deal with the climate. There was a summer where the

Po River was threatening to dry up. There had been no snow in the Alps, and the Poe looked like a stream.

Now, we have a storm, which is called in Italy a cyclone. I believe it was called Harry or something

familiar. However, it looked extremely

dangerous. Lorenzo, a very good day to you. I'm guessing that the storm has passed. You're in Milan,

but the damage looks widespread. Good day to you, Lorenzo. Good day, John, good day, Jeff. Good day to

everybody listening to the radio program from Milan, which is a great day here today.

We do hope to have some snow late this afternoon.

We didn't have snow over the last three, four years.

So we do hope to have some white roof tomorrow morning when we wake up.

Let me tell you, I'm 1,000 kilometers

from the place of Italy where the storm, Harry, did a lot of damages. You know, it was really

an unbelievable phenomenon, which was caused by a combination of effect that normally doesn't happen in that magnitude.

The wind blew for two days without any interruption.

The gas were up to 100 kilometers per hour, which is more or less 70 miles per hour.

And the wider of this cyclone, Ari, the name, was very wide from the Libyan coast up to the Sicilian coast.

So a very wide piece of the Mediterranean Sea that made the wave height up to 15 meters.

That caused damage is unbelievable on the cost line of Sicily and part

of the Calabria, which is the region fronting the sea of the peninsula, Italian peninsula,

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