2008.04.28
A beneficial rain will help April end as wet month
Roanoke picked up .74 inch of rain as of 5 p.m. and .52 inch on Sunday ... a total of 1.26, and since all of Sunday's rain fell from after 6 p.m., that makes it the first 1-inch-plus rain total in a 24-hour period since Oct. 26. If you want to be technical, we sill haven't had an inch on any particular calender day since the October date.
In all, we got 1.71 inches of rain since Friday, on top of 1.44 inches over 4 days a week ago, pushing our April total to 4.94 inches, more than an inch and a half above normal as the month comes to a conclusion Wednesday. We may see a few more showers overnight and early Tuesday, but it's unlikely that rain total will go up much more. It'll be our first month more than an inch above normal in precipitation since October.
While the strong cold front pushing through the area has meant beneficial rain for us, it has also produced a spate of tornado reports in the Hampton Roads area.
The next couple of mornings will be cold, relative to the season. A few snowflakes could fly in higher elevations, maybe even down to the New River Valley, on Tuesday morning, and Wednesday morning could bring patchy frost to Southwest Virginia.
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Kevin, For the month of April, we had 5.58" rain, and for the whole year so far, 10.78". So April is more than half above the year to date... If we could just get a few more months like that, what a huge dent in the drought that would be!!
Comment by Julie — April 28, 2008 @ 7:14 pm
... for those who don't know, Julie is at Check in Floyd County ... feel free to post your rain totals for elsewhere in Southwest Virginia for this weekend or for the month
Comment by Kevin Myatt — April 28, 2008 @ 7:31 pm