Currently in Los Angeles — July 19, 2024: Another heatwave has arrived

The weather, currently.

It was already in the 80s in many valley locations by 10am Thursday morning. The heatwave is truly on.

As the ridge sets up shop over our area, we will continue to heat up on Friday and into the weekend for a sustained heatwave event. Expect upper 80s to low 90s for LA metro, with upper 90s to around 100 for the valleys. Always a chance of some monsoonal moisture spilling into inland areas, but right now it looks like most of that will stick to Arizona and New Mexico.

— 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.