Variable amounts of rainfall have led to widely varying visual conditions for fall foliage in higher elevations that are turning first.
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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Why Hurricane Imelda didn’t become the ‘next Helene’ and why Joaquin 10 years ago wasn’t ‘Helene before Helene’
Factors that could have pulled Imelda inland for at least a partial sequel of Helene did not materialize this week, thankfully.
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Helene is a name we will not soon forget
A year ago this week, a powerful hurricane being absorbed into a stubborn upper-level low-pressure system led to a catastrophic regional weather event in the Appalachians.
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September often trends to extremes on rainfall — this one, so far, is dry
A coastal storm failed to deliver more than sprinkly rain over most of Southwest and Southside Virginia this week.
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Bedford County duo, Lexington woman vie for Cardinal Weather heat prediction contest victory
Unseasonably cool low temperatures for early September are a signal to wrap up the summer contest.
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After historically cool August, is summer really over? And might early coolness portend a colder winter?
It was the coolest August on record at Danville and among a few chillier Augusts in many decades of records at several other Virginia locations.
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A summer of downpours and stickiness, but not widespread rain or prolonged extreme heat
The last week of August is bringing the opposite of the stickiness that defined much of this summer.
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Flash flooding engulfs Roanoke Valley streets, leading to swift-water rescues
Rainfall of 3 to 5 inches poured down in less than two hours as a narrow line of storms slowly moved over the same locations repeatedly.
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How Hurricane Erin may help this August finish as one of our coolest on record
Cooler weather pattern bumping Erin out to sea, and Erin’s spin enhancing the cooler weather pattern.
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This week 85 years ago: A flood that still hasn’t been topped at some southern Virginia locations
The remnants of a hurricane that struck the South Carolina coast lifted the New River to a height that even Hurricane Helene couldn’t quite match.
