Currently in NYC — June 6, 2023

plus, it's heatwave season in India

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Eric Holthaus & Stacy Blundell
June 05, 2023

The weather, currently.

Warm and hazy with a shower or thunderstorm possible

Tuesday is looking like the warmest day of the week with a high of 79°F. We'll have instability during the day which could ignite some showers or even a thunderstorm. The majority of the day will be mostly sunny so throw the sunglasses and the umbrella in the bag before you head out. The afternoon is going to be quite breezy and we will be affected by smoke from Canadian wildfires once again. Haziness from all those fires has become commonplace for us lately. Watch for poor air quality and I hope have a great Tuesday.

Bike Forecast:

7 out of 10

What you need to know, currently.

It’s heatwave season in India, and this year’s cooling monsoon rains are behind schedule.

The annual arrival of the Indian monsoon rains in early June is the most important weather forecast in the world. Grain traders, railway conductors, even India’s stock market pays attention to the forecast. And as with all weather forecasts, it’s the most vulnerable people in society — like day laborers — that must endure the prolonged consequences when these precious rains fail.

When the rains are late, crops can fail, heat waves magnify, and families are thrown in to crisis. Heat waves in South Asia have recently been determined to have been made 30 times more likely due to climate change, and this year’s late monsoon is adding to the misery.

This year, the monsoon rains are delayed and far weaker than normal so far — about 5-7 days behind schedule — but initial rains arrived over the weekend in Chennai in southern India. The India Meteorological Department has a monsoon tracker that’s updated daily.

-Eric Holthaus

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—Eric Holthaus