Currently en República Dominicana — 19 de septiembre: Temperaturas muy calurosas en República Dominicana

El tiempo, currently.

Una vaguada y los vientos húmedos permanecerán incidiendo en las próximas 24 horas en República Dominicana generando un panorama meteorológico con lluvias entre moderadas y fuertes, además de temperaturas muy calurosas en gran parte del país.

El fenómeno atmosférico se activará especialmente después del mediodía con el incremento del calor en la región del Caribe: es por esto que durante la tarde del martes van a desarrollarse aguaceros hacia la Cordillera Central, noroeste, zona fronteriza, noreste, sur y áreas del norte.

Mientras que en el Atlántico varios sistemas atmosféricos en observación: continúa al noreste distante del Caribe el Huracán Nigel sin representar peligro para nuestra región; también damos seguimiento a un nuevo disturbio atmosférico que se moverá en los próximos días en el Atlántico oriental.

— Jean Suriel

What you need to know, currently.

Antarctic sea ice continues to grow at a pace far below any previous year on record. As we approach springtime in the Southern Hemisphere and with a Pacific El Niño strengthening, there are worries that melt season may have already begun weeks early.

The BBC interviewed Antarctic research scientists, and their words are worth reflecting on.

"It's so far outside anything we've seen, it's almost mind-blowing," Walter Meier, who monitors sea-ice with the National Snow and Ice Data Center, told the BBC.

Since it is already floating, melting sea ice does not on its own raise sea levels. But sea ice forms a buffer encircling Antarctica from warming waters, and the loss of that sea ice would accelerate the loss of land ice in the Antarctic ice sheets, which would raise sea levels — perhaps dangerously so.

This is one further sign that we are in the emergency phase of the climate crisis, and that world leaders need to do uncomfortable things to restore a climate balance and pave the way for a just future for everyone.

— Eric Holthaus

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