On tap next: A heat wave
Posted Jun05, 2008 at 10:13 AM
Now that Roanoke's first confirmed tornado in 34 years is in the books, the weather scene is about to move to the verge of some history on a different account. Strong high pressure is building in, and this will give us several days of extreme heat for early June. We're talking mid to upper 90s in Roanoke now through at least the middle of next week. Record highs for each of those dates are, well, in the mid to upper 90s, all dating to the time period between 1914-1939. Blacksburg's daily records in the upper 80s and low 90s are likely in jeapordy as well.
100 degrees in Roanoke? It's not impossible we could scrape the century mark a day or two, and I thoroughly expect somewhere like Martinsville or Danville to have a 100-degree day before the middle of next week. Roanoke's earliest 100-degree on record was June 3, 1936, so that record can't be touched ... but the second earliest wasn't until June 20 in 1931.
The only thing that could break that heat on a given day would be an isolated thunderstorm, more likely over the mountain ridges to our west.
Courtesy of the National Weather Service, here are the daily records for Roanoke and Blacksburg for the next six days:
ROANOKE
6/5...98 IN 1925
6/6...96 IN 1939
6/7...95 IN 1925
6/8...97 IN 1933
6/9...98 IN 1933
6/10..96 IN 1914
BLACKSBURG \
6/5...88 IN 2002
6/6...88 IN 2002
6/7...89 IN 1984
6/8...90 IN 1984
6/9...92 IN 1953
6/10..90 IN 1999
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