Currently en Puerto Rico — 18 de octubre 2023: Menos calor, más lluvia

Una zona de humedad remanente de la tormenta tropical Sean se acercará a Puerto Rico el martes, la cual interactuará con baja presión en los niveles superiores de la atmósfera para generar un aumento de las lluvias. Habrá aguaceros dispersos y tronadas aisladas durante la tarde y la noche, y su frecuencia aumentará el miércoles a medida que llegue aún más humedad.

Afortunadamente, el riesgo de calor extremo disminuirá para el resto de la semana. Más adelante, nuestra atención se centrará en AL94: una amplia área de baja presión y aguaceros que está comenzando a mostrar signos de organización y podría convertirse en depresión tropical al final de la semana laboral y tormenta tropical hacia el fin de semana. Los modelos de pronóstico están tendiendo hacia el norte de las Antillas Menores, pero algunas proyecciones tienen el ciclón potencial moviendo más hacia el sur hacia Puerto Rico. Así que es importante que sigamos monitoreando este sistema ya que sus impactos potenciales se volverán más claros en los próximos días.

—John Toohey-Morales

What you need to know, currently.

The UN Climate Change Conference, COP28, is about a month and a half away. However, after last year's conference — which emphasized Climate Finances — wealthy nations are still falling far behind on financial commitments.

The majority of these promises are already overdue. In 2009 wealthy nations promised to pay $100 billion per year in climate finance to the Global South by 2020.

Earlier this month the UN's main fund created to support these goals — the Green Climate Fund — announced that it had raised $9.3 billion, falling short of a $10 billion target. This comes nowhere near the $200-$250 billion the UN estimates developing nations will actually need each year by 2030.

The US and China, the globe's two largest polluters, failed to contribute to the fund at all.

At least years COP, held in Egypt, countries also agreed to create a “Loss and Damage Fund.” A fund where wealthy nations would contribute funds to assist developing nations as they recover from inevitable climate disasters, i.e. loss and damages.

Almost a year later, there is no clear path forward for the creation or execution of this fund.

— Abbie Veitch

What you can do, currently.

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