Currently en Puerto Rico — 11 de julio, 2023: Se sentirá como temperatura de 110°

El tiempo, currently.

La nube de polvo sahariano actualmente sobre Puerto Rico es una de las más grandes en lo que va de año. Se espera que limite la actividad de lluvia bastante el martes. Como siempre, algunos aguaceros y tronadas aún pueden ocurrir en el interior y oeste. Pero en ausencia de lluvias, el calor imperará, con cifras de sensación térmica cerca de 110 grados en algunos sectores. Para el miércoles habrá una nueva onda tropical cruzando cerca y al sur de la isla que causará lluvias sobre la vasta mayoría de Borinquen. Algunas de las precipitaciones serán suficientes para generar inundaciones.

—John Toohey-Morales

What you can do, currently.

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What you need to know, currently.

India’s crucial monsoon rains have had a rollercoaster season so far.

The India-wide rainfall index has now officially shifted to an above-average season — though the season itself has been anything but average. During the onset phase in early June, rains were at least a week late, bringing prolonged heatwaves and droughts across the entire subcontinent. Now, those same rains have shifted into overdrive bringing massive flooding that has swept away cars and homes and bridges.

This “weather whiplash” is a characteristic of climate change, where extra heat in the atmosphere manifests itself in a sped-up hydrologic cycle, paradoxically bringing more intense droughts and more intense floods sometimes to the same place in quick succession.

Monday was the rainiest July day in Delhi in at least 40 years, forcing authorities to close schools. Further north in the Himalayas, more than 700 roads were closed by mudslides and washouts.

—Eric Holthaus