So long, RVA!
Monday’s high temperature will be well into the 80s, approaching 90. Yeah, 90. It’s not an official heat wave – that requires three consecutive days of temperatures above 90 – but it’s definitely warm for early October.
Friday, Saturday, and Sunday will all see mostly clear skies with highs at or above 80 degrees. Saturday will likely be the warmest of the three, topping out in the mid 80s. Overnight lows each night will be in the 50s, warming slightly each night from Friday to Sunday, starting near 50 and ending in the mid 50s.
If the low moves out as forecast, Wednesday will be the last day of thick clouds, as the low moves off to the northeast. There’s a small possibility of a scattered shower, but that, along with the cloudiness, should diminish later in the day.
Visible satellite imagery shows a lot of lingering cloudiness this morning, which will continue through the rest of Monday. Temperatures will only climb into the low 60s this afternoon, before dropping into the mid 40s overnight.
Most of the rain has cleared the area, and the flash flood watch has been canceled. The low pressure system responsible for the past 48 hours’ rainfall is moving northward just offshore. I don’t think we’ll see any more rain, but I can’t rule out the chance of a scattered shower through Friday morning.
For Wednesday, rainfall associated with a stationary front parked just off the Virginia coast, coupled with a trough near the mountains, will dominate Wednesday’s weather. In advance of expected periods of possibly heavy rain, the National Weather Service has issued a Flash Flood Watch for all of the eastern 2/3 of the state.
Monday will be mostly wet, as moisture from the Gulf of Mexico is pulled along a stationary front parked over southeastern Virginia and eastern North Carolina by an area of low pressure over the Tennessee valley.
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