Now with the area's most accurate forecast, Storm Tracker 59
and it's been a day of very unsettled weather.
We've had some off and on showers and thunderstorms across
portions of the area, even Beckley.
We had some sunshine around noontime and then more downpours
this afternoon.
That's been kind of the the tune of the song
here for today for a lot of us and we
are seeing generally overcast conditions.
Be careful out on the roads this evening.
They will be wet in spots and could have some
water laying in the road in some of the spots
that saw some heavier rain.
We're seeing quite a bit of water spraying there on
our camera there for Pioneer Community Bank Camera and Beckley
at this hour.
So it's just something to keep in mind.
You're going to want to maybe pack some patients and
take a couple extra minutes if you are headed anywhere
this evening.
And we do have numerous downpours still across the region
right now.
We look at our store tracker 59 HD dual live
Doppler radar, the yellows, the oranges indicating the heaviest rains.
We'll zoom in just a bit.
The heaviest rain over the last hour has been across
parts of Greenbrier and Monroe counties.
And that is why that area is under a flood
advisory that goes until this evening around 8:00.
Now, this is a downpour, the kind of train over
the same area there's just South of Lewisburg.
Still a heck of a downpour in Lewisburg a little
bit ago.
But these storms really trained across parts of, let's say
not too far from Alta down toward the Roncever and
then into northern parts of Monroe County down toward the
Six Grove area, for example.
So a quick two inches of rain in those spots
has allowed for the potential for perhaps some St.
flooding and some low lying, poor drainage issues as well.
Low lying issues in this poor drainage areas.
We have more downpours back to the West across parts
of Wyoming and McDowell counties back into parts of western
Raleigh.
So again, we're not done with the downpours just yet
anywhere in our region.
So if you do plan on being outside in the
next few hours, just keep in mind that chances are
fairly high you'll run across the downpour this evening.
These will wrap up around ten, 11:00 tonight and then
we get to do it all again as we head
towards tomorrow, mainly in the afternoon.
71 where it's rained recently in Beckley, it's 80 in
Hinton where we have had some time for the atmosphere
to recover, for things to warm up just a bit.
So kind of just depends on whether you've seen the
rain or not in the last few hours.
If you haven't, you're near 80°.
If you have, you're closer to 70°.
We've got this area of low pressure and it's basically
a just overhead just up to our north and that
has been the focus point for scattered chavers and thunderstorms,
especially on the South side of the system because that's
where the humid air is.
You'll definitely notice the stickiness if you're outside here this
evening with dew point values way up into the 60s
and we'll see temperatures dip back into the low to
mid 60s for tonight.
Scattered channel is going to be still likely especially again
till about ten 11:00 here for tonight.
We start on a pretty quiet note Tuesday, but those
chances for storms really start to increase once again as
we get into the afternoon with the heat, the humidity
and a stalled frontal boundary near the area.
It is beneficial for a lot of us in terms
of drought relief, but we don't want to see too
much rain at once because flash flooding is something that
that we'll still have to be keeping an eye on
over the next, let's say two to three days really.
Now as we start our Tuesday again, we are on
a quiet note.
So not a bad start at all Tuesday.
But by the afternoon, we'll start to see our chances
for rain on the increase here as we head into
the afternoon and notice the yellows and oranges, some of
this could be on the heavy side once again as
this works its way through the region.
So another afternoon with scattered showers and thunderstorms likely, and
that will continue into Wednesday as well.
Wednesday we start fairly quiet once again, but we will
see those scattered showers and thunderstorms make a return here
once we get into the afternoon for our Wednesday.
Looks like we're having a little bit of data issues
here for Wednesday, but definitely going to be a wet
afternoon Wednesday to go along with our Tuesday.
If there's one good thing about it, it keeps the
pollen levels nice and low.
So we look at our palm forecast brought to you
by New River Health, and we look ahead on our
10 day forecast, 81 on Tuesday.
We're stuck in the 70s both Wednesday and Thursday with
those showers being so likely here across the area.
Now, once we get past Thursday, we see this pattern
break just a touch, 70 or 81 on Friday, 82
on Saturday and only isolated chances for showers as we
head into the start of the weekend.
A little better chance as we head into the start
of next week with highs in the mid 80s.
Rivers, thank you very much.
Joe, coming up.