Currently en Puerto Rico — 3 de julio, 2023: Tiempo más despejado

El tiempo, currently.

Se espera tiempo más despejado el lunes en Puerto Rico después de que una onda tropical débil generó algunos aguaceros en la mitad sur de la isla el domingo y antes de que una onda tropical más fuerte resulte en una aguaceros y tronadas más generalizadas el lunes por la noche y el martes. Permanecerá caluroso y brumoso durante la mayor parte del día, con temperaturas en el rango bajo de los 90 grados e índices de calor entre 107 y 112 grados en el oeste, noroeste y la costa centro norte. La lluvia llegará por la noche lo que podría provocar acumulación de agua en carreteras e inundaciones en zonas urbanas y quebradas. Las tormentas más fuertes vendrán el martes.

—John Toohey-Morales

What you can do, currently.

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What you need to know, currently.

Twitter is breaking right as we're going into a big El Niño.

Over the weekend, Elon Musk instituted rate limits after a brief systemwide outage. As of Sunday evening, many Twitter users have been restricted to reading just 600 posts per day and viewers without a Twitter account are not able to read tweets at all.

All this worries Samantha Montano, a public emergency management expert and author of the book Disasterology. In a conversation with Gizmodo’s Molly Taft last fall, she explained how over the past 15+ years, Twitter has evolved into a critical resource for emergency managers around the world.

"We have not responded to any major disaster in the United States for almost two decades without Twitter and I do not want to know how a response would go without it," Montano said on social media on Saturday, after Musk’s policy change.

Twitter’s unique skill in disaster situations revolves around its near-effortless way of synthesizing first-hand information almost instantly. During the 2018 false-alarm missile alert in Hawaii, Twitter provided accurate information faster than the 38 minutes it took for the government to issue an all-clear, according to a study. There are also examples of tweets about earthquakes moving faster than the earthquake waves themselves, and therefore providing a real-time warning mechanism that can save lives. In an example from India in 2016, earthquake tweets were able to provide 4-6 minutes of warning before the shaking began in Delhi.

In fact, on Saturday afternoon, shortly after Musk instituted the new changes, a National Weather Service office in Southeast Virginia reported that they had lost access to viewing real-time damage reports during an ongoing severe weather outbreak.

Read more, in Gizmodo:

—Eric Holthaus