Currently in the Twin Cities — October 26, 2023: Another round of rain arrives

The weather, currently.

Get ready for another round of precipitation. Showers and thunderstorms will again move in late Wednesday evening into the overnight through early Friday. We’ll see potentially an additional inch of rainfall making for several inches for parts of southern Minnesota in total this week.

Cold air will sweep through Minnesota Friday, dropping temperatures substantially. Several inches of snow will fall into Friday in northwest Minnesota. Winds will be blustery Friday with gusts over 30 mph. We too could see snow showers Saturday. Wind chills will drop to near 20 early Saturday with highs only in the 30s this weekend.

— Sven Sundgaard

What you need to know, currently.

On Wednesday, I joined Science Friday’s book club for a live video chat about my book The Future Earth — and the discussion was one of the best I’ve had in a long time.

My book is about hopeful and possible paths to escape climate doom and bring about collective liberation — and as brutal as this year has been, I know any evidence of hope is very much needed right about now.

If you have an hour, give it a listen. And thank you all for supporting me and my work in each of your ways over the time we’ve known each other. 🙏

— Eric Holthaus

What you can do, currently.

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