Roanoke, VA – Saturday Evening Update:
Most of the showers are done for the evening, with the exception of a few pop-up showers and storms closer to the east.
As for our temperatures, we will see yet another tame night; cooling off into the upper 60s to low 70s overnight.
Tomorrow we will see more showers and storms come back into play. There will be a few in the morning, but most of them will hold off until the afternoon.
That being said, most of these showers will be more isolated than what we saw today, but with similar impacts including heavy rain and damaging winds.
Tomorrow’s temperatures will be very similar today: hot with muggy conditions all around!
Saturday Morning:
Friday had the smoke. Saturday will have the storms.
A cold front is expected to sweep through the region later today, with showers and storms likely to form as a result. That front will also sweep a lot of that wildfire smoke out of the area.
Some of these storms could be on the stronger side, with damaging winds as the primary threat.
The Storm Prediction Center has put the eastern half of our area under a slight risk for severe weather. Storms are expected to fire up after about 2 PM.
There’s a chance we see some isolated flash flooding in the mountains with any storms that form and move slow.
Rain chances continue into the next several days, with temperatures in the upper 80s and low 90s.