Temperatures this week have matched the hottest periods of July and August, but the atmospheric pattern ahead is looking more like fall for Virginia.
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Get the latest weather news, storm alerts, forecasts, and climate updates across Southwest and Southside Virginia from Cardinal News. Our local weather coverage tracks severe storms, flooding, snow, drought, and changing conditions impacting communities including the New River Valley, Roanoke Valley, Lynchburg, Danville, Martinsville, Bristol, Abingdon, Wytheville, and surrounding Appalachian and Blue Ridge regions.
Hurricane Idalia spins in fall-like days for Southwest and Southside Virginia
Some parts of southern Virginia didn’t need a hurricane to get up to a foot of rain early this week.
Summer heat peaks Friday, but sharp cooldown into next week may hint at fall
We’re not ready just yet to trade sweating for sweaters in Southwest and Southside Virginia, but cooler air from Canada will once again short-circuit a heat wave.
Does August have late sizzle for Virginia? Anything like 40 years ago?
There are signs of a heat wave building by the weekend into next week, but it’s a big stretch to expect a 1983 redux.
7 things to know about hurricane season in inland Virginia
We don’t live on a coast in Southwest/Southside Virginia, so we don’t get the most destructive impacts, but tropical systems can be troublesome. Also, a look at Lynchburg’s record wet July.
How thunderstorms develop, organize and intensify
A primer on thunderstorm formation accompanied by storm photos from Southwest and Southside Virginia during the past few weeks.
Heat wave set to punch into Virginia’s mild summer
Southwest and Southside Virginia have missed out on heat waves broiling other areas, but heat is bulging eastward in days ahead, and a few spots may hit 100 by Saturday.
Super-soaking rain, supercells and stubborn summer smoke
Here’s how some places got inundated and we all inhaled more unwanted smoke over the past several days in Southwest and Southside Virginia.
Heat index to climb as sticky July heat returns
Less humid weather early this week in Virginia caused the heat index – a measure of how higher temperatures affect the body with varying humidity levels – to be a few degrees cooler than the actual temperature.
Heat, smoke and snow: Five weather predictions for second half of 2023
Winter and summer have largely been missing in the first half of 2023 across Southwest and Southside Virginia. Here’s what the second half of the year may hold.

