Soaring temperatures in late June are not necessarily a harbinger of the summer ahead, as last year proved.
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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.
Some more rumbles, gusts and downpours — then a heat wave
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.
90-degree heat begins to enter Virginia’s weather picture
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.
Virginia caught between Canadian smoke and African dust
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.
The curious case of the May-October split of extreme heat in 1941
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.
Amid clammy, raw stretch of late May, we look ahead to what summer might bring — including your contest guesses
It hasn’t felt anything like summer this week, but it’s time to open up the 2025 Cardinal Weather summer heat prediction contest.
U.S. 58 reopens, months after it was destroyed by floodwaters — and months ahead of schedule
A portion of the road through Washington County has been closed since the remnants of Hurricane Helene swept through the region in September, requiring motorists to take detours. It is traveled daily by about 400 vehicles.
Southwest Virginia storm chaser tracks vicious tornadic supercell across Kentucky
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.
Drought to deluge, again: Pouring rain returns in May after dry March and April
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.
‘A dreadful cyclone that came this way’ — the legacy of Rye Cove, Virginia’s deadliest tornado, 96 years later
With haunting lyrics, the Carter Family trio memorialized the horrible loss of students’ lives at a destroyed school in 1929.

