ROANOKE, Va. – For some, Wednesday morning is the coolest weather we’ve felt in roughly three months. Some would argue it’s worthy of long sleeves or a light jacket early on.
As sunshine takes over (along with some fair weather cumulus clouds), we’ll see temperatures rise close to where they did Tuesday afternoon. Thursday, however, appears slightly warmer.
The big ticket item is the low humidity - a breath of fresh air! This continues through at least Thursday.
While there’s a slight uptick in humidity levels Friday, it’s a non-issue.
Therefore, overnight lows still drop into the 50s through the weekend.
This drop in humidity and dry airmass overhead makes for perfect high school football weather Friday evening.
We’ll start the games off in the 70s with temperatures falling into the 60s in the mountains.
Count on picture-perfect weekend weather for the Virginia Tech and VMI home games, as well as the Beaver Dam Sunflower Festival in Buchanan!
Summer gets its last licks in, though, heading into next week as a strong area of high pressure camps out over the Eastern and Central U.S.
We’ll see high temperatures rise well into the 80s to perhaps near 90° in areas east of the Blue Ridge.
The good news is we won’t have to do deal with insanely high humidity levels. In fact, precipitation trends stay below-average next week due to the sinking air associated with high pressure.
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