LUGANO - A hot weekend in Ticino sent residents to Lake Lugano and to the earliest hours of the day. Building sites shifted toward morning starts. Restaurants on the waterfront extended service because the indoor rooms were the problem, not the demand.
Frontier workers still crossed at dawn into a heat that does not care about a border. Hospitals watched the usual rise in exhaustion cases among the old.
A southern climate inside the Confederation
Ticino's labour and housing arguments, in our September file, sit under this weather. Heat is not a separate beat here. It is the working day.