Currently in NYC — August 19, 2024: Mostly cloudy and humid with scattered showers

The weather, currently.

Hope everyone had a nice weekend and stayed dry. Some showers and thunderstorms remain in the picture for Monday as a cold front comes through but they’ll be scattered. It’s still humid but not quite as muggy as Sunday. We’ll have a high of 83°F under mostly cloudy skies.

Some unusually cool area rushes in on Tuesday and stays around for a couple days. It will feel more like Autumn with crisp air and daytime temperatures in the low to mid 70s with a brisk breeze. Get ready for an early taste of Fall!

Bike Forecast:

6 out of 10

— Stacy Blundell

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.