Accuweather 2024 Summer Forecast. Summer starts on june 1 or june 20, depending on whether you ask a meteorologist or an astronomer, but either way accuweather is predicting a hot summer for most of the contiguous united states. Last year february 2023 to january 2024 reached this threshold, though it wasn't quite the entire calendar.

Be on the lookout for fires, severe thunderstorms, and some flooding in the coming months. Hurricane season, dasilva said 2024 could go down in the record books.