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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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Tornado cuts 9-mile-long path through Halifax County
The 75-yard-wide twister with winds up to 100 mph sprang from storms that have brought needed rainfall to drought-stricken areas of Virginia.
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Two faces of summer: Sticky-stormy replaces hot and dry in Virginia — for now
This week brings a reprieve from extreme heat and relief from severe drought — more like most recent summers in our region.
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It has been one of Virginia’s hottest, driest summers — but a switch is about to flip
Major atmospheric shifts to bring cooler and wetter weather over next several days. But how long will it last?
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Roanoke soars to 103 degrees; another sizzler Tuesday for Virginia
Blacksburg also had its hottest day in 12 years on Monday — but a break in the heat wave is on the way.
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Summer doldrums conundrum: Humid air, parched ground
Moisture in the air drives up the heat index, but it rarely condenses enough to ease Virginia’s drought.
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Sizzle returns for Fourth of July after cool respite
Powerful Hurricane Beryl in Caribbean may be a harbinger of an active Atlantic tropical season that might eventually flip Virginia’s rain fortunes.
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Vicious summer cycle: Heat begets drought, drought begets heat
Lynchburg, Martinsville and South Boston have had only a few hundredths of an inch of rain in June as the month nears its end.
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Fahrenheit 100: Infrequent heat benchmark on edge of possibility in Virginia by weekend
The triple-digit mark — 37.7778 Celsius to most of the world — hasn’t been breached much in Virginia during the last dozen years.
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Heat wave set to roll over Virginia; 90s likely for many, 100 possible
Remember to enter our heat prediction contest as the first hot spike arrives Friday, with a longer run of potentially extreme high temperatures next week.
