Perhaps you were wondering what the weather was like in the town of Parrano, Italy, on Monday.

It was a pleasant 83 degrees, much more bearable than the 90-plus temperatures we’ve been suffering here in New Jersey.

So we can assume our governor is enjoying his summer vacation at his 23-room villa in the hills of Umbria.

Good for him. But a lot of people wish he’d solved some problems afflicting vacationers here before he left. I met one of them Saturday evening when I went to a family party at house my cousin was renting in Lavallette.

The woman who owned that house as well as one next door came over to talk. It seems that, like a lot of people who rent out Shore houses, she wants to know whether governor is going to sign that bill that would eliminate the current 11.625 percent tax on short-term rentals.

When the bill enacting the tax passed last year it was supposed to apply only to online services such as Airbnb. But the interpretation offered by Murphy’s Treasury Department expanded it to all summer rentals except those handled by real-estate agents.

That tax can easily add $500 or so to the cost of a two-week rental. As a result she’d lost two longtime summer renters, the woman told me.

In June, both houses of the Legislature passed legislation making it clear the tax does not apply to private rentals, without a dissenting vote. If the governor signs the bill, the tax goes away. If he vetoes it, at least the homeowners will know where they stand.

But he can’t do either of those things when he’s in Italy.

Then there’s the mess at Lake Hopatcong. It’s no Lake Como, but it is the largest lake in New Jersey. It’s also the best beach option for a whole lot of working-class and middle-class people from the urban areas to the east.

But at the moment the beach at Lake Hopatcong State Park is closed to swimming because of what the state Department of Environmental Protection terms a “Harmful Algal Bloom.”

Assemblyman Tony Bucco Jr. says the state’s initial alerts last month created a panic among the lake-goers, even among boaters who were not at risk.

The panic was heightened by a couple of electronic signs on interstates 80 and 287 that warned that Lake Hopatcong State Park was closed to swimming, the Morris County Republican said.

Even when the message was softened to say that boaters were welcome, marina owners were telling him that the signs were still driving boaters away because they warned against any contact with water, Bucco said.

“The marina owners said the ‘no contact with water’ is killing us,” he said.

Bucco said that he finally convinced state officials to take the messages down, and they did so last week. But the entire month of July has been lost for local businesses, and August isn’t looking much better.

“In the beginning people were going along with the state,” he said. “But now that everybody has done their homework, people are gonna stand up and say enough is enough.”

The homework in question revealed that plenty of other states, including New York and Connecticut, would allow swimming at the levels that caused the closure of Lake Hopatcong.

State Sen. Joe Pennacchio, also a Republican from Morris, warned that the standards imposed this year by the state Department of Environmental Protections are so stiff that the lake may never open.

“Going on six weeks, I find it very hard to believe the methodology they used is trustworthy, especially when you look at surrounding states,” Pennacchio said. “Last year in July, 60 percent of the lake would have been shut down by the standards they’re using this year.”

Pennacchio said that when he gets back from vacation Murphy should call for hearings into the reasoning behind the new state standards.

“In the history of the last 40 years the lake was only shut down for one weekend in the 1970s,” he said.

Pennacchio said he also wants the governor to explain why the state has not proposed any mitigation measures such as algaecides, aeration and dredging.

“They have no plan to mitigate the problem, nothing,” he said.

When he returns, Murphy should explain why not to the residents, he said.

“I won’t criticize him for being on vacation,” he said. “But I will criticize him for not having the right people in charge.”

Another Republican assemblyman from Morris, Mike Carroll, was perfectly willing to criticize Murphy for leaving the state without solving these problems.

“Curious, isn't it, that the governor is threatening the future of the New Jersey vacation industry while he vacations in Italy?”

Yes, it is.

But at least he’s got nice weather.