Weather

Powerful Hurricane Beryl in Caribbean may be a harbinger of an active Atlantic tropical season that might eventually flip Virginia’s rain fortunes.

Lynchburg, Martinsville and South Boston have had only a few hundredths of an inch of rain in June as the month nears its end.

The triple-digit mark — 37.7778 Celsius to most of the world — hasn’t been breached much in Virginia during the last dozen years.

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.

Computer forecast models have replaced the hand-drawn maps that helped win World War II. Artificial intelligence is poised to take weather forecasting to the next level.

Also, remember to enter the Cardinal Weather heat prediction contest, details at the end of this column.

June may start quite cool, a good time to ponder how hot it may eventually get and enter the Cardinal Weather heat prediction contest.

An EF-1 tornado was found to have cut a two-mile-long, 300-yard-wide swath through Salem with winds up to 105 mph on Sunday.

Sunday’s storms originated in Oklahoma and left a trail of damage all the way to Virginia. Additional storms are expected on Memorial Day.

Last week’s rain has eased widespread dryness, but the holiday weekend may be soggier than many would like.