Currently en República Dominicana — 18 de septiembre: Vaguada mantendrá los períodos lluviosos en República Dominicana

El tiempo, currently.

El panorama meteorológico en República Dominicana se mantendrá lluvioso en las próximas 24 horas por la incidencia de una vaguada, que ha generado precipitaciones durante los últimos días.

Este sistema se combinará con los efectos de la humedad marina y las temperaturas calurosas de la región del Caribe para provocar descargas eléctricas y ráfagas de viento en ocasiones.

Después del mediodía de este lunes, los aguaceros se concentrarán hacia la zona montañosa de la Cordillera Central, noreste, sureste, norte y zona fronteriza.

Estamos llegando al final de la temporada de polvo del Sahara en el Caribe, la cual comenzó a principios de mayo y terminará en los últimos días de septiembre.

— Jean Suriel

What you need to know, currently.

The State of California filed a lawsuit on Friday against the five largest oil companies and their lobbyists, alleging that they deliberately misled the public to protect their profits — putting lives at risk and worsening extreme weather, creating billions of dollars of damage in the process.

"Oil and gas companies have privately known the truth for decades — that the burning of fossil fuels leads to climate change — but have fed us lies and mistruths to further their record-breaking profits at the expense of our environment. Enough is enough," said Rob Bonta, California's attorney general.

The lawsuit pits the largest US economy against the heart of the global fossil fuel system — and is analogous to the recent successful lawsuits against utility companies in California for their role in sparking deadly wildfires. This time, California is demanding the oil companies pay their share of damages to the state for their decades of lies.

Meanwhile, on Sunday, in the largest climate march since Covid, more than 75,000 people rallied in NYC explicitly to end the era of fossil fuels. The demands were clear: President Biden must declare a climate emergency and take immediate action to wind down fossil fuel production and use throughout the economy. And that work needs to be done with climate justice at its center.

Here’s AOC’s full speech at Sunday’s global climate march to end fossil fuels in NYC:

It’s happening, y’all.

— Eric Holthaus

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