Currently in the Twin Cities — July 24, 2024: Finally a break from the storms

The weather, currently.

Cool, Canadian high pressure will drop dew points for Wednesday and bring some stability to the state. Look for dry weather and decreasing clouds Wednesday. Mostly sunny skies prevail Thursday into Friday.

Wednesday also marks the start of our statistical temperature decline. The average high and low temperature the last 2 weeks were the highest of the year. From now until January 25th, the average temperature declines but don’t tell mother nature because we may see our warmest 1 to 2 week period ahead as steamy weather returns this weekend and sticks around next week. Highs will be near 90 Saturday through next week potentially.

— 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.