A good deluge of rain today was much needed, after over 5 weeks without any significant precipitation. Rainfall tallies between 1 and 2 inches were common Wednesday and Wednesday night over Central Virginia, with more to come. I expect occasional showers (some with heavy rain) to continue Thursday and Friday. A plume of tropical moisture extends from the Bahamas and western Caribbean northward into the Mid-Atlantic. Meanwhile, a cold front settled to our south late Wednesday evening, with temperatures lowering into the 50s and lower 60s. This front will drift back north by Friday and we could see another decent slug of rain later Friday into the early morning hours of Saturday. That will be pushed away by the next cold front.
Drying out over the weekend...
That front will help to bring a dry and pleasantly cool air mass to Virginia on Sunday, and will stick around into the middle of next week. So the big question is will we enter a wetter period or revert back to the dryness? The longer range charts show that we might return to a dry spell, although there isn't enough evidence to draw conclusions about the early part of November just yet. Stay tuned...
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