Weather

Southwest and Southside Virginia will get a reprieve from recent extreme heat and sticky-stormy weather just in time for the Fourth of July weekend.

Soaring temperatures in late June are not necessarily a harbinger of the summer ahead, as last year proved.

A front has been stuck near us for several days, bringing rounds of showers and storms, but a stronger front will soon clear that out and set Virginia up for a hot spell.

It is actually a tad late for the first 90-degree temperatures of the year. Speaking of heat, don’t be late entering the Cardinal Weather summer heat prediction contest.

While the smoke from distant wildfires that brought hazy skies this week will gradually clear, a dust plume from the Sahara Desert will approach later in the week.

Southwest and Southside Virginia had a historically cool day in the last week of May this year, quite the opposite of a torrid late May trend 84 years ago.

It hasn’t felt anything like summer this week, but it’s time to open up the 2025 Cardinal Weather summer heat prediction contest.

The supercell that formed in the Missouri Ozarks on Friday traveled over 400 miles before unraveling just before it could get into Southwest Virginia early Saturday.

Some creeks flooded and some muddy hillsides slid with 1 to 4 inches of rain, locally more, over much of Southwest and Southside Virginia early this week.