Currently in Miami — June 28, 2023: Hot temperatures with scattered showers and isolated thunderstorms; Altas temperaturas con aguaceros dispersos y tormentas eléctricas aisladas

The weather, currently.

We continue on a drying trend in South Florida as we head into midweek. Atmospheric moisture levels will be well-below normal as a high-pressure system to our east ushers in drier air over the peninsula. This will keep rain chances down a bit, although scattered showers and isolated thunderstorms will still be possible during the afternoon. Meanwhile, temperatures will continue to rise, approaching the mid-90s in some interior locations. Heat index values will range from 100 to 105 degrees. It will continue to get hotter later in the week when the National Weather Service may issue Heat Advisories indicative of heat indices closer to 110.

El tiempo, currently.

Podemos esperar días menos lluviosos en el sur de Florida para la segunda mitad de esta semana laboral. Los niveles de humedad atmosférica estarán muy por debajo de lo normal a medida que un sistema de alta presión al este de la Florida introduzca aire más seco sobre la península. Esto reducirá un poco las posibilidades de lluvia, aunque aún serán posibles aguaceros dispersos y tormentas eléctricas aisladas durante la tarde. Mientras tanto, las temperaturas seguirán aumentando, acercándose al rango medio de los 90 grados en algunos lugares del interior. Los índices de calor serán de entre 100 y 105 grados el miércoles, y solo hará más calor luego en la semana cuando el Servicio Nacional de Meteorología pudiera emitir Advertencias de Calor que indiquen una sensación térmica más cercana a 110.

—John Morales

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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:

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.

—Eric Holthaus