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Currently in San Francisco — June 14, 2023: Cloudy morning, with a sunnier and windier afternoon

Plus, India's boom-bust rainfall year is getting worse.

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Eric Holthaus & Priya Shukla
June 13, 2023

The weather, currently.

Cloudy morning, with a sunnier and windier afternoon

This past weekend, a pod of 30 or so killer whales were spotted off the coast of Monterey. For several hours, the whales made vocalizations, breached out of the water, and slapped the sea surface with their fins (there is video footage of some of these displays!). This is the third such unusual sighting of killer whales in central California this year, though this pod is by far the largest and most active.

What you need to know, currently.

South Asia faces a new extreme weather threat: Cyclone Biparjoy is expected to make landfall near the Pakistan/India border on Thursday.

Biparjoy is now one of the strongest/longest lasting cyclones ever measured in the Indian Ocean basin. Thankfully, Biparjoy should be weakening by the time it makes landfall, but it’s still expected to bring more than 200mm (7.87 in) of rainfall and coastal storm surge of 2-3 meters (6-10 ft) to parts of Gujarat state in India.

This year’s Indian Ocean cyclone season activity is running at 392% of normal — a sharp contrast the the extremely meager rains of monsoon season so far, which are 55% below normal. Comprehensive tropical cyclone records in the Indian Ocean began in 1972, and monsoon records date back to 1871.

This year’s boom-bust rainfall pattern in India fits with the pattern of how climate change affects the hydrologic cycle, prompting an increase in frequency in both droughts and floods at the same time.

What you can do, currently.

Welcome to the new-and-improved Currently!

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Thank you for taking this exciting journey with us!

—Eric Holthaus