Currently in Boston — August 8, 2024: Morning sunshine

The weather, currently.

Low humidity will continue for one more day before the tropical air surges into the area on Friday.

Thursday will start mostly sunny along with comfortable temperatures. Highs will be in the lower to middle 70s.

Showers Friday and the first half of Saturday will be on and off. Humidity will be very high. The heaviest rain is likely to come Friday night and early Saturday. Temperatures will be in the 70s Friday and then warmer Saturday with highs in the lower 80s.

Sunday brings back the sunshine and will be drier with highs around 80 and a breezy afternoon. Nice weather continues into early next week with seasonable temperatures and highs in the upper 70s to lower 80s.

-Dave Epstein

What you can do, currently.

A Media Matters analysis found that last year — the hottest calendar year on record — network coverage of climate actually declined in the US. What’s worse, just 12% of reports about climate change mentioned fossil fuels as the driving cause. The media still reported on extreme weather, but stopped short of making the climate connection.

Independent climate journalism like Currently is needed more than ever. And this year, with all of these weather warnings already underway, we’ll unfortunately have plenty of opportunities to do better.