Currently in the Twin Cities — July 25, 2024: A brief break from the humidity

The weather, currently.

We’ll have a comfortable night Wednesday night with lows falling to around 60 in the Twin Cities and 40s in northeast Minnesota. Sunny skies will prevail for Thursday. Temperatures will start to warm back up already, likely in the low to mid 80s.

The humid air will already be back Friday and we’re still looking at highs near 90 this weekend into next week and the first days of August. These last hot days of the month may be enough to push July to near normal or slightly above. We’ve been running about 1 degree cooler than normal up til now.

— 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.