Currently in NYC — June 23, 2023: Mostly cloudy and warmer with a few showers

The weather, currently.

Happy Pride weekend, NYC! Aside from the gusts of glitter and raining of rainbow flags, we’ll have some showers and storms to contend with. Friday will be warmer with a high of 78°F. The humidity increases as we go through the day and it will be very unpleasant all weekend. Expect it to feel like pudding at times. We won’t have any washouts but the mostly cloudy skies will send us occasional showers and thunderstorms. If you get caught in one, expect a drenching downpour. It’s all good though; we’ll play the role of the sun and shine all weekend. Happy Pride!

Bike Forecast:

4 out of 10

— Stacy Blundell

What you can do, currently.

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What you need to know, currently.

Atlantic Ocean water temperatures continue to be completely off the charts.

These unusually warm temperatures — across the whole of the North Atlantic Ocean — are far outside historical norms. In fact, the current departure into record territory is about 0.35°C above the warmest temperatures ever previously measured. That’s about a decade’s worth of warming, all happening at once.

Such a shock to the ocean is obviously having profound effects on the weather. Right now, there are two tropical cyclones in the core of the tropical Atlantic. In no previous June, since records have been kept starting in 1851, have there been two tropical-storm strength cyclones in the month of June, let alone simultaneously.

This should be the front-page news — with the added outrageous fact that fossil fuel executives are continuing to make our planetary emergency even worse.

—Eric Holthaus