Currently in the Twin Cities — August 1, 2024: A humid start to August

The weather, currently.

We’ll have lingering showers Thursday morning with decreasing clouds. It’ll be cooler Thursday thanks to the cloud cover but still rather humid.

Friday and Saturday will be back to near 90 degrees with sunshine. Those could be our 6th and 7th 90 degree readings of the season, bringing us closer to the normal 9 to date. Cooler air is moving in for next week with highs mostly in the 70s. We have the chance of more showers, thunder Sunday and especially late Monday.

— Sven Sundgaard

What you can do, currently.

A Media Matters analysis found that last year — the hottest calendar year on record — network coverage of climate actually declined in the US. What’s worse, just 12% of reports about climate change mentioned fossil fuels as the driving cause. The media still reported on extreme weather, but stopped short of making the climate connection.

Independent climate journalism like Currently is needed more than ever. And this year, with all of these weather warnings already underway, we’ll unfortunately have plenty of opportunities to do better.