ROANOKE, Va. – Saturday Evening Update
This evening, we are wrapping up the last of the rainfall activity with showers remaining in portions of the Roanoke Valley and Lynchburg Zones.
Later on into the evening and overnight hours tonight, we will continue to dry things out as high pressure takes control of the region. Sunday will be much warmer and drier!
Today’s rainfall was unfortunately not much to write home about. We accumulated a trace of rain at best. We certainly need to see more rainfall to make up our current deficit.
The most recent addition of the State Drought Monitor has most of Southwest and Central Virginia in a moderate drought status. With rain chances not back in the forecast until next Thursday. This drought will likely get worse before it gets better.
We are dry and warm through the next week! This pattern will stick around for a while until our next best chance of rain arrives next Thursday.
Saturday Morning Update
Happy Perhelion! Though we will not see any noticeable effects in the weather today, it is a day to mark in our revolution around the sun!
The rain started early this morning and will come and go throughout a majority of the day. By sunset, the rain will have mostly ended and begin the start of a dry period.
There will not be much variety in today’s temperatures between 10 am and 10 pm. Temperatures will be slightly below average but decently normal for this time in January.
Between about 4-5 pm we will see our daily high temperature. Over the next couple days, this temperature will increase and we will start to see above average conditions.
As a high pressure system takes over early tomorrow morning, dry conditions will come into play and last through a majority of the week.
We will continue to see a warming trend and could see temperatures get up to 20 degrees above average by the end of the week.