Due to drought, which has lasted for 60 days, the source of the Po river is dry and the landscape is snowless, in Pian del Re, Crissolo, under the Monviso in the Cottian Alps. The snow melted due to high temperatures. Two people sunbathe on the dry riverbed at the confluence between the Po and Ticino rivers, next to Ponte della Becca (Becca Bridge), in Linarolo, near Pavia, northern Italy, in July. A state of emergency was declared in five northern regions amid a worsening drought, as Italy experiences an early heat wave and a lack of rainfall.