ROANOKE, Va. – It’s about time the wind left us alone a little bit, but it is quite the cold start to the day. After starting in the 20s, Tuesday will prove to be much calmer with increasing clouds north of a warm front. High temperatures will still be a solid 10° below average for late March.
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Come Wednesday, the warm front will slowly lift to the north. That means high temperatures will slowly creep into the 50s and 60s from south to north. The wind will begin to pick up, especially in the western mountains, the later in the day and night that we go.
That’s all ahead of our next storm system. This will start to produce a severe weather threat late Tuesday night into Wednesday morning in parts of the Plains.
As the storm picks up Gulf moisture, it will become stronger and produce a regional outbreak of severe weather in parts of the Deep South Wednesday.
That line of storms will generally weaken before putting rain and gusty wind in our area Thursday morning.
There’s plenty of wind above the surface to sustain a few stronger storms (especially east of the Parkway) from midday onward Thursday. Our severe weather threat comes down to how much instability/storm fuel there is left in the atmosphere.
If a few severe storms do develop, the main threat would be localized wind damage, an isolated tornado and perhaps localized flooding too.
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