Not your typical Southwest Virginia heat wavePosted Aug10, 2007 at 11:55 PMIt's still going to be hot today and for the next few days, but only regular summer hot around 90 as opposed to the extreme heat we've been having. We'll probably even dip into the 80s for highs next week, so get your wool coats ready. :-) I'm rather tired of both the triple-digit heat and writing about the heat, so I'm ready for a breather. Looking back at this particular heat wave, it was not your typical Southwest Virginia hot spell. Usually when we have extreme heat, there is little or no wind, the sky is milky white with haze, the mountains are shrouded behind layers of ozone, and it is very humid. This time around, there were almost constant blast-furnace winds rolling from the west down the mountain slopes, the sky was quite blue with amazing visibility for mid-summer (great for photographing a distant storm on Thursday evening), and the humidity was altogether tolerable even through the worst of the heat. It felt more like a "dry heat" at times. It seemed more akin to Plains and West-style summer heat than the oppressive mugginess of a Eastern heat wave -- at least in our area. Richmond and Norfolk, suffering their mid-upper 70s dew points, would have a much different take on it. |
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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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