Summer weather forecast offers mixed bag of flooding and continued drought

Lazaro Aleman ECB Publishing, Inc. AccuWeather, an American media company that provides commercial weather forecasting services worldwide, recently released its 2026 summer forecast, predicting continued drought conditions in the Southeast, energy cost spikes in the Gulf Coast, and significant El Niño-driven weather disruptions across the country. The AccuWeather prediction, however, may have been superseded in part and possibly temporarily by a more recent report predicting a possible end t