UNITED STATES - Brace yourselves; storms are a-coming! While the western United States faced record-breaking heat last week, the heat is shifting eastward into the southern Plains, Deep South, and Southeast this week, with Florida, in particular, expected to face tropical downpours.

“[Last] Friday should be the first day on which a few records may be threatened,” said AccuWeather Meteorologist Ryan Adamson. “Cities such as Raleigh and Columbia, South Carolina; Atlanta and Augusta, Georgia; and Montgomery, Alabama, are likely to tie or break records on both days of the weekend. Widespread temperatures in the 90s will also be found farther west, with a few spots in western Texas possibly approaching 100 degrees on Friday and Saturday before the core of the heat shifts eastward.”

According to a report by AccuWeather, the sudden spike in temperature this May is shocking when compared to the below-average temperatures of this past April. However, AccuWeather reports the heat won’t be here to stay as a pocket of cooler air should move back into the Southeast and keep higher temperatures at bay once again.

Similarly, Florida only should have faced storms through the weekend.

“As a tropical disturbance meanders and moves slowly northward over the eastern Gulf of Mexico, rain and heavy downpours will increase from south to north over Florida spanning Saturday night into early next week,” said Adamson. “Rain will slowly push northward Saturday night, likely reach as far north as the Interstate 4 corridor from Tampa to Orlando by Sunday morning. In areas where it rains for most of the weekend into early next week, a general one to two inches of rain is likely with locally higher amounts possible.”

Currently, meteorologists are not expecting this storm, which could include thunderstorms, downpour, and possible flooding, to become the first named tropical entity of the year, according to an AccuWeather report. In fact, despite minor rain initially along the Florida Keys, most of the peninsula should have stayed dry until Saturday night, with the heaviest downpour moving into the northern parts of the peninsula and on to Georgia by Monday.

“Overall, this rainfall will be more beneficial than detrimental, as it will help to put a dent in the ongoing drought,” concluded Adamson.

How will crops fare in the latest round of weather? AndNowUKnow will continue to report as the storms roll in.