Currently in the Twin Cities — June 5, 2023

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Eric Holthaus & Sven Sundgaard
June 04, 2023

The weather, currently.

Scattered thunderstorms and still hot, muggy Monday

First it was western Canada being scorched by hot, dry weather and then eastern Canada. The high pressure ridge aloft that’s been creating the hot, dry weather everywhere in between, including Minnesota is now blowing that smoke from Quebec and Newfoundland into Wisconsin and eastern Minnesota creating air quality issues into Monday. We’ll see some scattered thunderstorms both Monday and Tuesday as cooler and drier air slowly moves in. Highs will be in the upper 70s and low 80s mid to late week with a big drop in dew point from the sticky 60s to the dry 40s.

What you need to know, currently.

France Télévisions, the French public television network, has revamped its daily weather broadcasts to incorporate climate change. The change is being heralded by climate journalists around the world.

The goal is to “not just to say, ‘It will be sunny tomorrow or it will rain,’ but to explain why,” Alexandre Kara, the editor-in-chief of France Télévisions, said in an interview with the AFP news agency. Kara added that it is no longer “acceptable to be happy that it is 25 degrees [77 degrees Fahrenheit] in [the seaside resort town of] Biarritz in February without explaining why.”

Covering Climate Now

What’s more, their entire newsroom — not just weather journalists — will no longer fly to report on domestic stories “except in cases of urgent breaking news.” Bon travail, France Télévisions!

-Eric Holthaus

A Path-breaking Innovation in Climate Journalism

French public television replaces traditional weathercasts with weather-and-climate reports

coveringclimatenow.org/climate-beat-story/a-path-breaking-innovation-in-climate-journalism

What you can do, currently.

Welcome to the new-and-improved Currently!

If you’re a big fan of Currently, please share us with a friend! Our brand-new referral program is a way to give our biggest fans direct ownership of our company. We are the first weather service in the world to do this, and we’ll have much more in the coming days on our hopes and dreams for member-ownership, as well as Currently as a whole.

Thank you for taking this exciting journey with us!

—Eric Holthaus