The main characteristics of the general atmospheric circulation in August 2024 are as follows: There were two polar vortex centers in the Northern Hemisphere and they were stronger than normal. The circulation at middle-high latitude of the Eurasia showed a two-trough and two-ridge pattern. The location of the western Pacific subtropical high was more westerly and northerly compared to that in normal years. In August, the monthly mean precipitation across China was 96.5mm, 9.8% lower than normal (107.1mm), and the monthly mean temperature was 22.6℃, higher than normal (21.1℃) by 1.5℃. During this month, the number of high temperature days was higher than normal for the same period of the year. The continuous high temperature weather in the south of China is highly extreme, and meteorological drought is developing along the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River. There were five heavy precipitation processes occurred in China, and rainstorm processes are frequent in the north of China, with high overlap