Currently in Los Angeles — July 12, 2024: Some increasing clouds

The weather, currently.

The heatwave will continue inland into at least Saturday. But as the upper high moves east, it will allow some monsoonal moisture, and some mid and upper level cloudiness to the region. This may knock off a few degrees on the high temps. Still expect 80s in LA metro to around 90 for the valleys through the weekend. Chance for another warmup into the 2nd half of 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.