• Currently Puerto Rico
  • Posts
  • Currently en Puerto Rico — 28 de junio, 2023: Aguaceros y tronadas generalizadas con foco en el este y noroeste

Currently en Puerto Rico — 28 de junio, 2023: Aguaceros y tronadas generalizadas con foco en el este y noroeste

Author

Eric Holthaus
June 27, 2023

El tiempo, currently.

Aguaceros y tronadas generalizadas con foco en el este y noroeste

Una onda tropical se acercará a Puerto Rico el miércoles, lo que aumentará el riesgo de inundaciones hasta el jueves. Esto se deberá a niveles de humedad muy por encima de lo normal que interactuarán con una vaguada en los niveles superiores de la atmósfera, generando aguaceros y tronadas generalizadas en toda la isla. La amenaza de lluvia excesiva y relámpagos favorecerá a la mitad este de la isla tanto el miércoles como el jueves, pero es probable que el noroeste también experimente mucha actividad el miércoles. El aumento de la nubosidad y las lluvias ayudará a aliviar las temperaturas e índices de calor abrasadores de principios de esta semana.

—John Toohey-Morales

What you can do, currently.

Currently is entirely member funded, and right now we need your support!

Our annual summer membership drive is underway — with a goal to double our membership base over the next six weeks which will guarantee this service can continue throughout this year’s hurricane season. We’ll need 739 new members by July 31 to make this goal happen.

If these emails mean something important to you — and more importantly, if the idea of being part of a community that’s building a weather service for the climate emergency means something important to you — please chip in just $5 a month to continue making this service possible.

Thank you!!

What you need to know, currently.

Smoke-filled skies shrouded the cities of the US Midwest on Tuesday, the latest in a chapter of the months-long public health fallout from the worst wildfires in Canada’s modern history.

At the peak of the smoke, Lake Michigan was invisible from downtown Milwaukee — just one-half mile away. Wisconsin has had more public health warnings for poor air quality in the past 10 weeks than in the past 10 years combined. At one point Tuesday morning, Chicago’s air quality ranked worst in the world.

Adam Mahoney of Chicago’s Capital B writes the effects of this particular part of the climate emergency go beyond physical health: “the visually apocalyptic nature of the recent wildfires, coupled with disruptions in day-to-day life, threaten to create mental health struggles”, particularly for Black folks and marginalized people.

Mahoney spoke with Vickie Mays, a professor at UCLA whose work focuses on racial disparities of physical and mental health. Here’s Mays:

In the Black community, we have to recognize that climate makes health disparities. So we can see this and say, wildfires are a big problem for us. So now we got to worry, and are we prepared? Are we going to be ensuring that those people who need a new mask have gotten them? Is it going to make us want to start addressing the climate disparities because it just reminds us of who’s the most vulnerable?

Vickie Mays

And of course, cities like New Delhi, Kathmandu, and Nairobi are plagued with poor air quality and routinely rank among the worst in the world. The chronic health effects from fossil fuel burning is one of the leading causes of death in the world, killing more than 9 million people every year. That deserves to be front page news every day.