Currently in Los Angeles — August 5, 2024: Another warm day

The weather, currently.

Some cirrus and cirrostratus moved into the region from the south west on Sunday, leading to partly sunny weather. Overall though the main story of the weekend was the heat and this will continue into Monday, with abundant 90s across LA metro. You wouldn’t know it in Manhattan Beach, though, where I escaped to on Saturday. Lower 70s with predictable clouds that started rolling back onshore around 4p.

— 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.