Currently in the Twin Cities — June 21, 2024: The rain returns, again

The weather, currently.

Happy summer solstice! Yes that happened Thursday at 3:50 PM. We will SLOWLY start to lose daylight after today.

More heavy rain is on the way late Thursday night and again Friday night into early Saturday. We could see an additional 4+ inches with some models pumping out 6+ inches with locally higher amounts somewhere in southern Minnesota through Saturday.

So yeah, instead of losing sunlight, one thing we definitely would like to lose is some excess rainfall. Most places in the state are seeing double to even quadruple the normal amount of rainfall so far in June.

Next week does look overall drier with less frequent rain chances.

— Sven Sundgaard

On Tuesday, June 25 join Currently founder Eric Holthaus in conversation with local author Ashley Shelby for the launch of her newest collection of short stories of climate fiction — Honeymoons in Temporary Locations.

Moon Palace Books, 6pm on Tuesday evening. See ya there!

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.