90 degrees today?Posted May29, 2006 at 11:33 AMThis Memorial Day has a good chance to be our first 90-degree day of 2006 in Roanoke ... and Tuesday will have a similarly good chance to hit 90 as well. We haven't had a 90-degree day since it hit 92 on Sept. 23 of last year. Sunday's high of 88 is our highest temperature to date in 2006 ... and that was only two degrees below the May 28 record of 90 set in 1955. The record high temperature for May 29 in Roanoke is 91 in 1991 ... so tying or breaking a record today is certainly within reach. Blacksburg's record for May 29 is 84, also set in 1991 ... that, too, is definitely in play today. Blacksburg hit 84 on Sunday, but that was three degrees short of the May 28 record. Bluefield, West Virginia, set a record high of 86 on Sunday. Normal high temperatures for May 29 are 79 in Roanoke and 75 in Blacksburg. This little mini-heat wave is unlikely to keep May from being a cooler-than-normal month overall, however, as 16 of the previous 28 days have had below normal temperatures. Click here to follow Roanoke's current conditions and Blacksburg's current conditions today. |
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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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