Italy’s Po Valley Braces for Dry Summer time Resulting from Scarcity of Snowfall

Italy’s largest river, the Po, is as little as it was final summer time, with winter snow fields that often cease it from drying up having receded by 75%, in line with the Bolzano local weather and atmosphere company. Captain Giuliano Landini has needed to cancel all bookings for his Po River cruises due to the shallow water. His 60-metre lengthy vessel used to move as much as 400 folks, however the movement fee of the river is simply 350 cubic meters per second, as little as June 2017, when situations have been among the hottest and driest in 70 years. Navigation will quickly turn out to be unattainable if rainfall doesn’t arrive quickly.

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