ROANOKE, Va. – Helene is sticking around the mid-Atlantic and is bringing showers and storms across the region.
A couple of light showers are possible through the rest of the morning hours with patchy fog and mostly cloudy skies also sticking around.
By the afternoon, a couple of thunderstorms will get developed. The New River Valley, Southside and our more southern counties will see storms first. Then, they drift north and east.
Because of all the rain in the past week, the grounds are saturated. Any additional rainfall will have a difficult time being absorbed by the ground. The risk for flash flooding remains elevated for the day as we are expecting heavy rainfall to develop in isolated spots.
An areal flood watch is also in effect until 12:00am tomorrow morning for the Roanoke Valley, Lynchburg, Highlands and Southside.
Later this week, there will be a change in air masses as a front pushes Helene out of the region. Eventually, drier and warmer air will build in across the eastern half of the country.
And while Helene is still bringing rain to the region, we are currently monitoring 2 areas in the tropics that are given a decent chance of developing within the next 7 days.
Something else to note is that while we were tracking Helene, two other storms developed in the Atlantic. Isaac and Joyce will stay at sea and are not a threat to the US.
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