PersistencePosted Jun26, 2007 at 10:25 AMToday, and probably Wednesday and Thursday, look to be carbon copies of Sunday and Monday ... warm to hot, sticky, with afternoon thunderstorms. A few of the storms will become severe and produce damaging winds and large hail over localized areas while most people just hear thunder and get a little rain. Rockbridge County seems to have bore the brunt of strong thunderstorm winds on Monday evening, with scattered reports elsewhere. The daily humidity and storms are keeping this from being an extremely hot period as it had the potential to be, as the daily cumulus clouds, wind gusts and rain keep tempreatures from building well into the 90s. We get to the mid or upper 80s, maybe low 90s, and then the storms start rumbling. But the trade-off is more humidity, with dew points near 70, which off set the not-quite-as-hot temperatures. By Thursday evening, a cold front is slated to move through the area, and this could trigger a more organized round of storms. Behind it, cooler, drier weather is expected just in time for the weekend. By the way ... while every drop of rain from these spotty storms helps, it's not making much of a dent in the overall near-drought situation. While a few locations get an inch, 2 inches or even more rain, most folks are getting well under a quarter-inch. We need to take the heavy rain and spread it out into a moderate rain for many hours to ease the dryness. |
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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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