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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Two years after Hurricane Helene ravaged Southwest Virginia, a study of the storm’s effects on the Clinch River is underway.
The debris left behind by Helene and other storms makes it easier for flooding to occur again.
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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.
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Almost a winner a year ago, Lexington woman alone at top of this summer’s Cardinal Weather heat prediction contest
Diana Dymacek of Lexington missed by only one degree total on her best two of three guesses on the summer’s hottest temperature at Southwest and Southside Virginia regional locations.
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September sizzle: Temperatures soar past 100 in Southside Virginia, hit 90s most other places
There is some relief from the heat wave on the way over the Labor Day weekend and into early next week, but it might come with football-interfering showers and storms.
