Some needed rain on another mild summer day
Posted Jul24, 2007 at 09:57 AM
A blob of showers and thunderstorms entering Southwest Virginia may provide many areas some much-needed rain today, as temperatures once again act more like late September than mid-July. A large cold pool of air high in the atmosphere is helping keep our temperatures down and also causing any little bit of moisture and heating to bubble up into showers and storms. Weak disturbances rotating around this cold pool, centered in the Ohio Valley, are enhancing shower and storm development. With so much cold air aloft, it won't take much of a storm to spit out a little hail, since the freezing line for the rain will be very low and moderate updrafts will be abel to carry rain into the freezing air. Mostly, though, at least some parts of still-very-dry Southwest Virginia will get some blessed rain today.
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