This summer could be hotter and more stormy across the Northeast and mid-Atlantic than an unusually cool summer 2014, according to AccuWeather.com.
There could be as many as 10 more days in the 90s than there were last summer in Philadelphia and New York, predicted Paul Pastelok, AccuWeather.com expert long-range forecaster. In Baltimore, 14 days topped 90 degrees last summer, the fewest in five years.
The heat could meanwhile help fuel storm activity across the region, with frequent rain and thunderstorms, Pastelok forecasts.
Last summer was a break from a four-year stretch of hotter-than-normal temperatures that began in 2010. In the past decade, summer temperatures have averaged below normal only twice at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport, in 2009 and 2014.
As for the rest of the country, AccuWeather is predicting nothing to relieve California's drought -- only more hot and dry conditions.
In the midwest, the forecast calls for severe weather continuing into summer, with more tornadoes than last year, which was among the nation's quietest years for tornadoes on record.