Summer is almost here. Here’s what the weather will be like where you live.

The Water Mine park at Lake Fairfax Park in Reston, Virginia, is packed with visitors on a hot day in 2024. (Jahi Chikwendiu/The Washington Post)

By Ben Noll

A late spring cold snap that broke dozens of temperature records in Northern states isn’t an indication that the summer ahead will be cooler than average in the United States.

Over the next week the cool weather is expected to fade, giving way to increasingly warmer conditions as meteorological summer begins on June 1.

That trend is consistent with NOAA’s seasonal temperature outlook for June to August, which suggests that warmer-than-average conditions are likely in much of the country, particularly across Western, Northeastern and Southern states.

Last summer was the fourth-warmest on record and among the most humid for the co