Weather

The dense haze from Canadian wildfire smoke is expected to gradually lessen over the next couple of days in Southwest and Southside Virginia.

Thursday marks the 11th anniversary of one of Virginia’s windiest squall lines on its hottest day in a generation.

Another in a series of stuck low-pressure systems is circulating rounds of rainfall into Virginia all week and keeping summerlike heat at bay.

Record-warm global average temperatures are almost a foregone conclusion, but that might not translate to the thermometer at your Southwest or Southside Virginia home.

Many locations in Southwest and Southside Virginia will be in the 40s on Thursday and Friday mornings as wildfire smoke continues to waft through our air.

Stuck low-pressure systems are stymying the start of summerlike weather – but read to the end to find instructions for entering a summer heat prediction contest.

Northwest flow from Canada has helped bring smoke from Alberta wildfires over Virginia and also spread cooler air to stymie the hot trend of early 2023.

The twisters were in Lee County and Scott County.

Occasional series focusing on weather at specific locations in Cardinal News territory begins today. Also, a look at Tuesday storms in the region and whether it will get hot anytime soon.

Also, researchers uncover details of an 1834 tornado in Southside, and a look at just how cool our mid-spring has been historically.