Currently in San Francisco — August 8, 2024: Typical Thursday

The weather, currently.

Part sun and mid-60s highs on Thursday. Another lovely San Francisco day! And that’s what the forecast shows us for a while now.

I don’t know about you, but summer is when I stay put in SF. It’s quiet, and it’s mild. I love that the overnight and daytime highs might never be more than a 10-15 degree difference. I’m not here to escape this weather; I stay because of it! Tomorrow we’ll look ahead at the (probably very predictable) weekend.

— 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.