It's snowing in Sestriere, the whitewashed weather in August in the Alps. Environmentalists: 'From record heat to zero degrees' - Il Fatto Quotidiano

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It's snowing in Sestriere, the whitewashed weather in August in the Alps. Environmentalists: 'From record heat to zero degrees' - Il Fatto Quotidiano

“In the Alps, we went abruptly from record heat to snow.” Then the invitation to the press: “Don't call it 'bad weather', it's a climate emergency.” With these words, the group of climate activists, Extinction Rebellion, has relaunched one of the videos showing Sestriere, a town in the province of Turin 2,000 meters above sea level, unusually whitewashed. Until a few days ago, the historic temperature record had been reached in the Alps. The art…