Currently en República Dominicana — 23 de junio, 2023: Efectos de la tormenta Bret se sentirán este viernes en zonas de RD: Las mayores lluvias el sábado

El tiempo, currently.

La Tormenta Tropical Bret ya está afectando a varias islas de las Antillas Menores: con una trayectoria hacia el oeste, empezará a desplazarse en aguas del Mar Caribe en las próximas 24 horas.

Para este viernes se espera que transite al sur de Puerto Rico generando algunos efectos indirectos en la vecina isla; con este desplazamiento, algunas ráfagas empezarán a sentirse en el este de República Dominicana el viernes en la noche.

Un aumento de las posibilidades de precipitaciones se registrará durante la madrugada del sábado, incrementando el potencial de lluvias, ráfagas de viento moderadas y oleaje anormal en el transcurso del mismo sábado.

Bret se alejará del territorio dominicano el domingo ya debilitado en una baja presión por la incidencia de una nube de polvo del Sahara. Aún así, continuarán las lluvias por sus remanentes.

— Jean Suriel

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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