Currently in Chicago — June 6, 2023

plus, it's heatwave season in India

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Eric Holthaus & Tim McGill
June 05, 2023

The weather, currently.

Spotty shower Tuesday?

1. Break From Heat Continues

2. Little Rain In Forecast

3. Some Weekend Showers?

A slight chance for a spotty shower on Tuesday under mostly cloudy skies as highs hit the middle 70s. Some morning clouds then clearing Wednesday with highs in the middle 70s. Sunny skies Thursday with highs around average again in the middle 70s. A bit warmer for Friday and Saturday with highs in the lower 80s. Mostly sunny Friday then partly to mostly cloudy Saturday with a few showers possible. A few showers also possible Sunday as highs cool into the lower 70s. Cooler lakeside Tuesday through the weekend.

What you need to know, currently.

It’s heatwave season in India, and this year’s cooling monsoon rains are behind schedule.

The annual arrival of the Indian monsoon rains in early June is the most important weather forecast in the world. Grain traders, railway conductors, even India’s stock market pays attention to the forecast. And as with all weather forecasts, it’s the most vulnerable people in society — like day laborers — that must endure the prolonged consequences when these precious rains fail.

When the rains are late, crops can fail, heat waves magnify, and families are thrown in to crisis. Heat waves in South Asia have recently been determined to have been made 30 times more likely due to climate change, and this year’s late monsoon is adding to the misery.

This year, the monsoon rains are delayed and far weaker than normal so far — about 5-7 days behind schedule — but initial rains arrived over the weekend in Chennai in southern India. The India Meteorological Department has a monsoon tracker that’s updated daily.

-Eric Holthaus

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