Here we go again?Posted Jul20, 2006 at 02:01 PMThe Storm Prediction Center has highlighted all of western Virginia for a slight risk of severe weather today, primarily for the threat of localized high wind gusts in microbursts. Overall, conditions don't look quite as primed as Wednesday, with no mechanism for large-scale forcing of air upward as happened with the sinking cold front on Wednesday. But afternoon heating, increasing moisture, and the ridge-and-valley geography of our area could be enough to fire a few more storms, any one of which might, over a small area, produce enough downdraft wind to do some damage. Looks like we have several days ahead carrying the threat of microburst winds and locally torrential downpours. |
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Kevin Myatt works on the copy desk for The Roanoke Times and is its principal weather geek, writing a weekly weather column and advising the newsroom on weather topics. He helps guide students on a storm chasing trip to the central U.S. each May and was an editor for "Hurricanes and the Middle Atlantic States." .....Advertisement.....
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