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Picture it: Typical summer weather

Posted May30, 2007 at 12:41 PM

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For a few days we're in what could be called a typical summer weather pattern, even though it's not really summer yet (though many of you count Memorial Day as the start of summer). Heat, haze and humidity will be the rule the next few days, with a slight chance of afternoon thunderstorms here and there. I got this photo of a cumulonimbus, or thunderstorm cloud, scraping the sky west of Roanoke late Tuesday. Somewhere under this, there was probably a quick hit of heavy rain, lightning and maybe some gusty wind and hail, not unlike what a localized area of downtown Roanoke experienced on Monday. But from where I was, it was only a pretty cloud rising up in front of the late evening sunlight.

The summerlike weather pattern may change over the weekend as a new front moves in, giving us a better chance of more organized thunderstorms, and eventually, some cooler temperatures.

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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."

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