Proto-Summer

There's a Southwestern and Intermountain West heat wave coming over the next week, which will be complete with mountain thundershowers. It'll be like a proto-summer, or a proto-monsoon, in NM, Utah, and NV (and a little in AZ too). Probably nothing in the Valley of the Sun, except sun, at least for now.

There are no Atlantic tropical storms yet, but there is a 1000-mile band of thunderstorms lining up over the eastern Pacific Ocean over the next week that looks pretty formidable (west of Costa Rica and south of Acapulco), so there may be an early tropical storm or two out there.