According to an updated forecast from The Weather Company, an IBM Business, and Atmospheric G2, summer 2022 is anticipated to be hotter than usual throughout a wide area of the United States.
Temperatures are expected to be above average in a wide area from the Great Basin and Rockies to the Plains, Midwest, and interior Northeast from June to August.
Parts of the upper Midwest may have the most consistently hot weather relative to average.
However, summer temperatures may be a little milder than usual in sections of the Southeast and Gulf Coast.
Keep in mind that this forecast is based on a three-month trend. As a result, we will likely witness periods that are hotter or colder in each section of the country than what is indicated.
Warm temperatures this weekend
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Although Memorial Day weekend, the traditional start of summer, is still more than a week away, about 60% of Americans, or nearly 200 million people, will experience 90-degree temperatures in the coming days, as per CNN.
Record heat has been simmering throughout the drought-stricken Plains and sections of Texas, and it is heading east, potentially breaking hundreds of temperature records.
Between Thursday and Sunday, up to 130 records, high temperatures are expected to be tied or broken in sections of 20 states.
They're looking at rivaling daily record readings from Friday through Sunday, running 15 to 20 degrees over May normals, said Aaron Swiddett, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Highs in Raleigh will range from 94 to 96 degrees this weekend, breaking records that have stood for over a century.
The extreme heat is due in part to a widespread meteorological trend across the country.
The upper-level winds in the atmosphere, known as the jet stream, have been zonal or more of a west-to-east flow for the last several days.
As this trend has maintained, a vast dome of high pressure has formed, allowing abnormally warm weather to grow and spread out of the Plains and into the country's southern and eastern halves.
High temperatures will range between 90 and 95 degrees in locations such as Cleveland, Washington, Nashville, Tennessee, and Richmond, Virginia by Friday afternoon.
Weather forecast on the Rockies, Plains, and Midwest for the next month
June is projected to be unusually hot from the Desert Southwest to the Rockies, Plains, and upper Midwest, particularly in drought-stricken regions west of the Plains, as per The Weather Channel.
Temperatures in the north-central United States are expected to be above normal when summer begins in June.
Temperatures above normal are also forecast to extend as far east as the mid-Atlantic and Northeast.
The remainder of the country, from California to middle Texas to the Ohio Valley and the interior Northeast, is projected to be hotter than usual in June.
Temperatures in the Southeast and East Coast should be quite ordinary for June.
Washington state and northwest Oregon may be the only parts of the Lower 48 to remain persistently chilly in June, a continuation of what we've seen this spring.
The northern Rockies, Northern Plains, and upper Midwest are most expected to see above-average temperatures in July 2022.
A hot month is predicted for areas ranging from the middle Rockies to Oklahoma and the Great Lakes.
The Southeast and parts of the Gulf Coast may have a somewhat colder July than typical. With the heat focusing further north, the Southeast may have humid but less hot easterly breezes.
The Southwest, where an auspicious start to the wet stage of the monsoon - summer thunderstorm season - is forecast, may have the best chance of a milder July.
