Currently in Boston — June 23, 2023: Humidity is on the way.

The weather, currently.

High pressure kept things dry and sunny today but things are about to change. Clouds will increase later tonight along with the humidity levels. Tomorrow will feel stickier especially in the afternoon when the warm front passes. I think showers are limited tomorrow but if you do see one it could produce a 10th to a quarter of an inch of rain. There's a better chance of showers on Saturday and maybe even a thunderstorm south and west of Boston. Sunday looks warm and humid with some sun but another chance for showers and storms later in the day. It continues unsettled through the middle of the week.

— Dave Epstein

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What you need to know, currently.

Atlantic Ocean water temperatures continue to be completely off the charts.

These unusually warm temperatures — across the whole of the North Atlantic Ocean — are far outside historical norms. In fact, the current departure into record territory is about 0.35°C above the warmest temperatures ever previously measured. That’s about a decade’s worth of warming, all happening at once.

Such a shock to the ocean is obviously having profound effects on the weather. Right now, there are two tropical cyclones in the core of the tropical Atlantic. In no previous June, since records have been kept starting in 1851, have there been two tropical-storm strength cyclones in the month of June, let alone simultaneously.

This should be the front-page news — with the added outrageous fact that fossil fuel executives are continuing to make our planetary emergency even worse.

—Eric Holthaus