The National Weather Service on Sunday issued a fairly repeat of its early August weather forecast, and it was pretty frightening.

Apparently, as we head into the height of summer (August, not July, so I'm going to die on this hill), it's going to get “hot to very hot” all across the Central Plains. according to Heat watches and heat warnings have been issued for much of the central and eastern U.S., according to the National Weather Service (NWS), but the NWS also warned of “scattered intense to severe thunderstorms” spreading across the Midwest and northern Plains late Monday, potentially increasing the risk of both tornadoes and wildfires.

Heavy to excessive rainfall could cause flooding across the Central Appalachians, and another storm is expected to develop off the Atlantic coast, causing catastrophe-like conditions for the remainder of 2024.

High or extremely high temperatures are expected in the Central Plains for most of this week. Heat Watches and Extremely High Temperature Warnings have been issued. Heavy or extremely high rainfall could cause flooding in the Central Appalachians on Monday. Scattered strong or severe thunderstorms are expected… pic.twitter.com/Dh5mb6vKbQ

— National Weather Service (@NWS) July 29, 2024

The National Hurricane Center (NHC) is currently Monitoring It is a developing area in the tropical Atlantic Ocean that has a 40-60% chance (as of this writing) of developing into a tropical storm or hurricane within the next week. (Related: Prepare for a Category 6 hurricane, but not in the way you think)

If this system develops into something significant, its path as of Monday was expected to take it across the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Cuba, the Bahamas and most of Florida, but if the storm develops to be as massive and widespread as the NHC has described, everyone will be deadly.

July 29, 8:00 AM EDT: We continue to monitor areas with a moderate (50%) chance of development in the tropical Atlantic over the next seven days. https://t.co/tW4KeGe9uJ pic.twitter.com/NGiaTHxDPS

— National Hurricane Center (@NHC_Atlantic) July 29, 2024

Well, not everyone would die, but a storm of that magnitude would be truly apocalyptic. In reality, this map just shows the orbital regions that could occur if the disturbance were to become large enough.