Currently in San Francisco — August 29, 2024: Moving toward a cooler weekend

The weather, currently.

The fog has been returning, and Thursday promises to be a tiny bit cooler, with the winds picking up again (~15 mph) and highs topping out around 70 if we’re lucky. This forecast should hold clear through the long holiday weekend, but we’ll check on that again tomorrow. Here’s hoping for some gentle, predictably mild days ahead.

— Britta Shoot

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.