U.S. officials are bracing for another summer of dangerous heat. These maps show where it’s most likely to happen.

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1. Here’s a preview:

   Last summer, hundreds of millions of people were faced with triple-digit temperatures across the U.S. And now, weeks away from the hottest part of the year for the U.S., officials are warning it could happen again.

   The forecast comes at what is expected to be the tail-end of the latest El Niño, a natural climate phenomenon that happens every few years when the Pacific Ocean develops above-normal sea surface temperatures, weakening trade winds. That typically brings dryer and warmer weather to the northern U.S. and more precipitation and flooding to the Southeast.

   But now, the latest El Niño is “rapidly fading,” the National Weather Service said in its outlook, with its counterpart, La Niña expected to take its place. Equally impactful, La Niña pushes warmer water towards Asia and causes more drought in the Southwest U.S. while bringing more precipitation and flooding in the Pacific Northwest.

   **Read more:** [https://www.cbsnews.com/news/maps-extreme-summer-heat-us-forecast/?ftag=CNM-05-10abh9g](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/maps-extreme-summer-heat-us-forecast/?ftag=CNM-05-10abh9g)

2. Well shit.