Currently in the Twin Cities — June 23, 2023: Partly cloudy, hot with isolated late day thunder possible

Plus, Atlantic water temperatures reach fresh record highs.

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Eric Holthaus & Sven Sundgaard
June 22, 2023

The weather, currently.

Partly cloudy, hot with isolated late day thunder possible

Thursday made for our 9th day in the 90s this season, again the normal number to date is about 3. We’ll likely hit 90 again on Friday but then things get interesting. We have our best setup for possible rainfall in many weeks this weekend. Isolated thunder is possible Friday but mainly across central and northern Minnesota, north of the Twin Cities. Saturday brings the likely chance of late afternoon or evening thunderstorms which could be severe even. We’ve seen a lack of severe weather in what should be our peak of it lately. Temperatures are cooler Sunday and Monday just in the 70s and low 80s, a nice break from the heat.

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What you need to know, currently.

Atlantic Ocean water temperatures continue to be completely off the charts.

These unusually warm temperatures — across the whole of the North Atlantic Ocean — are far outside historical norms. In fact, the current departure into record territory is about 0.35°C above the warmest temperatures ever previously measured. That’s about a decade’s worth of warming, all happening at once.

Such a shock to the ocean is obviously having profound effects on the weather. Right now, there are two tropical cyclones in the core of the tropical Atlantic. In no previous June, since records have been kept starting in 1851, have there been two tropical-storm strength cyclones in the month of June, let alone simultaneously.

This should be the front-page news — with the added outrageous fact that fossil fuel executives are continuing to make our planetary emergency even worse.