Currently in Boston — June 22, 2023: Here comes the humidity.

The weather, currently.

The summer solstice has arrived and on balance it felt more like a spring day with comfortably warm air and low humidity. This is all about to change as a warm front approaches for Thursday. Clouds will increase and temperatures tomorrow will struggle towards 70° because of the lack of sunshine. The warm front will push north and bring a couple of showers especially along the South Coast in the afternoon. There might be a couple of showers on Friday as temperatures reach the '70s to lower '80s. I think that humidity will be the big weather story and most of the time will actually be dry. Unsettled weather continues into the upcoming weekend.

— Dave Epstein

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What you need to know, currently.

Tropical Storm Bret, the first named storm of the 2023 Atlantic hurricane season to threaten land, is expected to pass through the Leeward Islands on Thursday, very close to Barbados.

Initially forecast to grow into the season’s first hurricane, Bret has struggled and should remain a mid-range tropical storm until it dissipates in a day or two in the Caribbean Sea. It should pose no severe threat to the islands besides the potential for some heavy rainfall.

This year’s list of storm names is a modified version of the same list used in 2005, 2011 and 2017. It’s one of the most notorious lists of the six lists in regular rotation with the names Dennis, Katrina, Rita, Stan, Wilma, Irene, Harvey, Irma, Maria, and Nate removed due to their outsized impact to protect the mental health of survivors.

—Eric Holthaus