The annual snowfall prediction contest — the fifth in Cardinal News, but the 18th counting its Roanoke Times predecessors — begins taking entries next week in what promises to be a confusing and possibly confounding winter.
Kevin Myatt
Kevin Myatt has written about Southwest and Southside Virginia weather for the past two decades, previously for The Roanoke Times. He has led Virginia Tech students on storm chase trips, edited a book on Mid-Atlantic hurricanes and written articles for the Washington Post's "Capital Weather Gang." X (formerly Twitter): @KevinMyattWx Facebook: Kevin Myatt's Weather Wonders. Email: weather@cardinalnews.org.
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Weather leading into Halloween is delightful, not at all frightful. Hints of changes ahead?
October ends with a dry spell, cool mornings and warm afternoons. November shows signs of being wetter, with maybe a hint of a cold spell toward Thanksgiving.
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Weekend snow on highest peaks opens up peek at winter snow potential
What may be the strongest El Niño on record looms over the winter ahead, but that could go to either extreme.
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Soggy weekend past, warm mid-week now, chilly weekend ahead — don’t get used to any of it
Remnants of Hurricane Isaias brought widespread rainfall to soak dry ground and raise reservoir levels this past weekend, but there isn’t a followup rainy system in the pipeline.
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Hurricane Isaias’ remnants to bring beneficial rain and flooding risk to Virginia this weekend
The Atlantic tropical season’s latest first hurricane of the satellite era is expected to strike the Gulf Coast near where Alabama and the Florida Panhandle meet.
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Summerlike heat creeps into October, but that’s probably last of it for 2026
The first couple days of October brought some infrequent 90-degree highs to some locations in Southwest and Southside Virginia, but cooler weather has set in since then.
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The great reservoir refill of 2002. Can that repeat in 2026?
An El Niño-charged weather pattern washed away an extreme Virginia drought in three months 24 years ago.
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Autumn weather finally breaks through for a few days
Wednesday’s chilly dampness will be followed by a cool but dry weekend.
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One of our hottest starts to September, after the last two were among the coolest
Still no sign of consistently cooler temperatures or wetter drought-easing weather patterns on the horizon.
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Atlantic hurricane season on a record pace — for lack of activity
Strong winds aloft over the Atlantic related to the ongoing strong El Niño, the warming of the equatorial Pacific sea surface, are keeping tropical development in check.
