Currently in the Twin Cities — June 6, 2023

The weather, currently.

Sunday was our 5^th day of 90°F + temperatures. That’s the third most for this early in the season behind 2018 and 1934. This much heat, this early is unusual. Early summers have been trending hotter in recent decades however. A slow moving blast of cooler and drier air will touch off some spotty showers and thunder again Tuesday. It will still be warm, in the low to mid 80s with ‘sticky’ dew points in the 60s. By Wednesday we’ll notice the break from the hot, humid weather. Temperatures will be around 80 and dew points will be in the much drier, more comfortable 40s. The next chance of thunder comes Saturday.

— Sven Sundgaard

What you need to know, currently.

It’s heatwave season in India, and this year’s cooling monsoon rains are behind schedule.

The annual arrival of the Indian monsoon rains in early June is the most important weather forecast in the world. Grain traders, railway conductors, even India’s stock market pays attention to the forecast. And as with all weather forecasts, it’s the most vulnerable people in society — like day laborers — that must endure the prolonged consequences when these precious rains fail.

When the rains are late, crops can fail, heat waves magnify, and families are thrown in to crisis. Heat waves in South Asia have recently been determined to have been made 30 times more likely due to climate change, and this year’s late monsoon is adding to the misery.

This year, the monsoon rains are delayed and far weaker than normal so far — about 5-7 days behind schedule — but initial rains arrived over the weekend in Chennai in southern India. The India Meteorological Department has a monsoon tracker that’s updated daily.

-Eric Holthaus

What you can do, currently.

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—Eric Holthaus