It's about to get blustery and wintryPosted Dec31, 2007 at 05:04 PMSeveral counties in the higher elevations to our west are under winter storm watches, snow advisories and heavy snow warnings (click here for the National Weather Service's map of current advisories) as a strong cold front and some upper-level disturbance brings windy, much colder weather and rounds of snow showers the next couple of days. The Roanoke Valley is on the edge, again, of the snow threat. We will see much colder, windy weather and quite likely off and on snow showers, but accumulation depends on whether one of these disturbances the next 36 hours can trigger enough widespread snow above and beyond the upslope snow shower stuff that will be hammering the mountains. It certainly would not be out of line for us to get an inch or two out of this, and the New River Valley is very likely to see that much. This cold blast will only last a few days. Things will be getting milder again by the weekend. |
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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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