Currently in Los Angeles — August 16, 2024: A brief mini cooldown

The weather, currently.

An unseasonably deep trough will start to move in to the north of us, bringing a chance of rain and thunderstorms from Seattle all the way to the upper part of NorCal. For us in LA, meanwhile, temperatures will dip a bit on Saturday and Sunday before a warming trend beings next week.

— Ade Adeniji

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.