Currently in the Twin Cities — July 12, 2024: A few weekend storms

The weather, currently.

Highs will be in the upper 80s on Friday with plenty of sun and dry conditions.

Temps of 90+ are still on track for Saturday, Sunday and likely Monday. The best chances of spotty thunder will be late Friday night into early Saturday and then again late Sunday and Monday. Beyond Saturday is still murky until it’s within range of our higher resolution forecast models (which only go out 48 to 60 hours) versus our deterministic ‘big picture’ forecast models.

— 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.