Weather Experts Worried About Dangerous Storms Forming Around Heat Dome

While millions of people are getting roasted by this brutal heat wave, weather forecasters are watching something else that has them pretty nervous – violent thunderstorms starting to pop up around the edges of the heat dome.

National Weather Service folks say they're getting "increasingly concerned" about the potential for nasty weather with serious winds and hail hitting Georgia and the Carolinas.

Keith Stellman, a meteorologist with the weather service in Atlanta, isn't mincing words about what's coming. The environment is "forecast to be one of the more unstable we have seen during the summertime." Their computer models show the possibility of winds stronger than 70 mph in some storms, especially along and east of Interstate 85.

Ring of Fire Pattern Developing

What's happening is called a "ring of fire" – basically thunderstorms that form along the edges of a heat dome. Tens of millions of Americans were under heat warnings the morning of June 25 across more than a dozen states from the Midwest to the East Coast.