Founding Members will get a subscription to @Currently and everything we offer, plus a gift basket of founders-only merch. Founding members will also advise Currently, and help plot our direction forward — helping us to build a weather service that can truly change the world.
We'll only ever have 500 founding members. As a founding member, you'll literally make @Currently possible.
Currently members are our only source of funding. We are completely independent, ad-free, and member-funded. And our primary goal is to advance weather & climate justice.
Our primary goal is not to make money, it's to provide critical weather and climate information to folks that need it, everywhere in the world, and to build communities while we're doing it.
We're already working in 25 cities & planning for hundreds more: currentlyhq.com
I started @Currently because I think talking about the weather is the best way to connect with people. It's also the primary way that we experience the climate emergency — the existential injustice of our lifetimes.
The bottom line is: We can't do this without you. So, thanks ♥️
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Today’s air quality in New York City was the worst in more than 14 years. The concentration of fine particulate matter was seven times the @WHO's healthy limit.
The cause? A plume of smoke spanning the entire continent.
The worst of the smoke stretched from western Canada to Minnesota to New England. Nearly every major city in the Northeast had dangerously unhealthy levels of air quality.
Today's temperature of 130.0°F at Death Valley is the fourth-highest temperature ever recorded anywhere on Earth. All three higher temperatures are disputed.
If confirmed by @WMO, it would be the highest reliably-measured temperature in human history.
To be relevant in 2021, coverage of weather and climate has to be grounded in truth. It has to be trustworthy. It has to be personal. It has to meet people where they are.
The main truth of our time is the climate emergency & that we need systemic change to thrive this century.
Any media service — especially a weather service — not grounded in that truth is not going to do well.
Viewers are smart. We know when we're being lied to, we know when key facts are missing.
That's why leading with climate is the only way weather coverage is going to work.
So, the heat wave in Canada was so strong that it created extreme wildfire conditions, and when the fires started the heat plumes were so strong they created severe thunderstorms, which are so strong they're creating lightning that's sparking new fires