Currently in Portland—June 1st, 2023

The weather, currently.

We get a few more clouds on Thursday before launching into a stretch of all-sun, all-the-time. Thursday will be a pleasant day, like Wednesday, with a mix of clouds and sun and a high temp only reaching the low 70s. Overnight Thursday will get properly cool, down to the mid-40s. Get your outdoor exertion done on Thursday, because by Friday and the weekend, most folks will want to either hide indoors or find some water to camp out near. (I will be going the hiding indoors route.)

— Stella Harris

What you need to know, currently.

Today is the first day of Atlantic hurricane season, and also the first day of meteorological summer. After a few years of wild weather, we could really use a break.

Unfortunately, the atmosphere and oceans aren’t cooperating so far.

The National Hurricane Center has named an area of disturbed weather in the Gulf of Mexico “Invest 91L”, weather nerd speak for something that deserves closer attention by high resolution weather models to assess its chances for development into a full-fledged tropical storm or hurricane. Right now there’s just a 20% chance of that happening, so that’s good at least.

For the season as a whole, NOAA expects a near-normal season, with about 12-17 named storms, 5-9 hurricanes, and 1-4 major hurricanes.

-Eric Holthaus

What you can do, currently.

Welcome to the new-and-improved Currently!

As you might notice, the formatting and delivery of our daily newsletters has changed slightly — we’ve migrated service providers from Ghost to beehiiv so that we can bring you all the features we’ve been working for the past two years to prepare (and more!!)

If you’re a big fan of Currently, please share us with a friend! Starting today, we’re launching a referral program to give our biggest fans direct ownership of our company. We are the first weather service in the world to do this, and we’ll have much more in the coming days on our hopes and dreams for member-ownership, as well as Currently as a whole.

Thank you for taking this exciting journey with us!

—Eric Holthaus