A quick-hitting snowfall of 1 to 4 inches, with some localized amounts of up to 6 inches, is expected over a large part of the commonwealth still three weeks before Christmas.
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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.
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A couple of scrapes with ice already, and maybe snow on Friday?
Enough moisture and cold air are connecting in this first week of December for marginal wintry precipitation episodes in Southwest and Southside Virginia.
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First week of December likely to bring more wintry mix to Virginia
Following on the heels of patchy ice on Sunday morning that may have contributed to a fatal traffic accident, ice and/or snow are possible overnight Monday into early Tuesday and again by Friday.
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A chilly Thanksgiving ahead, but nothing like the Great Appalachian Storm of 1950
An oddly tracking and intensely wrapped-up low-pressure system made for an unforgettable “White Friday” for much of western Virginia 75 years ago.
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Will it or won’t it snow much this winter? Opposing factors push and pull on predictions, outcome
Winter guessing season is upon us, and you still have your opportunity to send in your picks for our Cardinal Weather snowfall prediction contest.
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Now that some have seen first snow, let’s start the snowfall prediction contest
Monday brought the earliest accumulating snow in over a decade to several locations in western Virginia, but many others got only flurries or no flakes at all.
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Solar storm brings out bright aurora peeking between the clouds
Virginia’s northwest sky glowed red for a few hours on Tuesday night into early Wednesday. Additional auroras visible at our latitude are possible in the next few nights.
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$240.5 million contract awarded for Creeper Trail rebuilding
Kiewit Corp., a Nebraska-based contractor, is expected to start working this week. The contract gives the company a year to complete the project.
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Winter is coming Monday: Expected snowfall in parts of Southwest Virginia would be earliest in more than a decade
It’s a typical winter setup with Arctic air from the northwest lifting and condensing moisture over the mountains, but showing up a little earlier than we’ve seen lately.
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Why we don’t call the infamous Flood of 1985 the Hurricane Juan flood
The Category 1 hurricane’s fingerprints were on the deadly and destructive flooding 40 years ago this week, but the atmospheric setup that yielded the worst river flooding on record at Roanoke and Lynchburg was much more complicated.
