OAK HILL, WV (WOAY) – It was a calm day today around the region, quite a change from the storms that rolled through the area yesterday. Some parts of Raleigh County picked up more than 6″ of rain in only a few hours, according to the estimates from our Doppler Radar.
The band of heavy rainfall accumulations stretched into parts of Wyoming County as well, along with other counties outside of the viewing area. That has left standing water on some of the side roads. Be careful as you head out to any overnight plans and watch for standing water; the depth of water over a road is especially difficult to gauge at night. With dry air in place, temperatures will fall off quickly this evening. By tomorrow morning, they’ll be in the upper 40s and lower 50s.
Tonight and tomorrow are the start of a nice stretch of weather for us, a chance to dry out after yesterday’s heavy rain. Tomorrow will be a cool day in relative terms around the area, with highs in the middle 70s, a few degrees below the average. As high pressure slides off to the southeast of the area, the flow becomes southwesterly again, and highs will be back in the 80s by Thursday and Friday.
As we go into the weekend, another low-pressure center will push to our north and will drag a cool front through the area.
It’s a similar setup to what we saw yesterday, and it appears that there will be some Gulf moisture for the front to work with. We’ll have to monitor the situation to see how much rain falls and whether it will combine with the already moist soils to produce more flooding. The Weather Prediction Center has placed the area in the 5 to 15% probability for excessive rainfall between Friday and Saturday, meaning that we could see amounts of rain that would cause flash flooding. The chance for rain will last for a few days as well as the cool front passes through and then becomes stationary. Totals will be decent and will again help to ease the drought.
Eventually, the front will break down, and temperatures begin to warm up. We’ll be pushing 90 degrees in some areas by the end of the forecast, and the 6-to-10-day outlook that was released today indicates that we’ll stay well above normal.
