Digital RSS feed from the Roanoke Times The Roanoke Times en_us Sun, 19 May 2013 17:29:21 http://www.roanoke.com/csp/cms/sites/dt.cms.rss.XMLServer.cls ellen.mosely@roanoke.com Many locations in Southwest Virginia had frost on Tuesday morning. The mercury may scrape 90 at a few spots by this afternoon. Thermometer whiplash has become a rather common malady for our region during the past year. We’re barely a month past what appe... http://www.roanoke.com//news/weather/1931622-6/thermometer-whiplash-jolts-region-once-again.html weather 31554256@rss.roanoke.com Wed, 15 May 2013 17:29:17 An upper-level low that has been circulating rain bands over us the past couple of days is the remnant of a jaw-dropping historic weather event in the states west of us. Spring 2013 has firmly established itself as one that will be remembered for extreme... http://www.roanoke.com//news/weather/1914493-6/oddly-chilly-spring-snow-cold-dip-far-south.html weather 31498226@rss.roanoke.com Wed, 15 May 2013 17:29:17 Asked about the most memorable extreme weather events of the past half-century, the 1985 floods and the 1993 blizzard are often at the top of the list for many Roanokers and Southwest Virginians. But a storm in late April 1978 combined some of the worst e... http://www.roanoke.com//news/weather/1889705-6/storm-of-april-1978-brought-mix-of-weather.html weather 31419849@rss.roanoke.com Wed, 15 May 2013 17:29:17 With cold and snow hanging on in much of the nation many weeks later than normal, spring 2013 is about as different from spring 2012 as it possibly could be. But 2013, so far, is following 2012’s lead in one area: lack of tornadoes. Through Monday, ... http://www.roanoke.com//news/weather/1878950-6/cold-spring-air-quells-tornadoes-so-far.html weather 31385380@rss.roanoke.com Wed, 15 May 2013 17:29:17 Two events involving the announcement of the annual Weather Journal snowfall contest last fall ensured that we would get not one but two snows after the calendar turned to spring. The first was my decision to cut the contest off at March 31, instead of Ap... http://www.roanoke.com//news/weather/1854525-6/snowfall-contest-had-some-flakiness-this-time.html weather 31308201@rss.roanoke.com Wed, 15 May 2013 17:29:17 March is in the books — a very different volume than the one a year ago. Roanoke and Blacksburg haven’t seen such a wide disparity in average temperatures from one March to the next since 1960 and 1961. Roanoke’s average March temperature was more than 1... http://www.roanoke.com//news/weather/1824922-6/with-chilly-march-over-spring-is-on-the.html weather 31213449@rss.roanoke.com Wed, 15 May 2013 17:29:17 So, how would you feel if the spring snow that fell Sunday and Monday were followed by another in about two weeks? That’s exactly what happened in 1971. Southwest Virginia was hit by twin spring snowstorms on March 25 and 26 and April 6 and 7, even bigge... http://www.roanoke.com//news/weather/1808483-6/spring-snows-sometimes-pack-a-wallop.html weather 31160835@rss.roanoke.com Wed, 15 May 2013 17:29:17 The atmosphere is sometimes poetic in its timing of extremes. A year ago, March was Roanoke’s hottest on record. Every day starting on March 11 had a high temperature of at least 60. Highs hit the 70s on 15 of those 21 days, and the 80s on six of them. A ... http://www.roanoke.com//news/weather/1789639-6/unlike-2012-winter-isnt-going-to-let-us.html weather 31102639@rss.roanoke.com Wed, 15 May 2013 17:29:17 While Superstorm Sandy's intense pounding caused more in terms of monetary damage, the 1993 Superstorm had a far wider impact.... http://www.roanoke.com//news/weather/1769560-6/regions-blizzard-of-93-still-widely-remembered.html weather 31042113@rss.roanoke.com Wed, 15 May 2013 17:29:17 You know that oft-repeated saying about knowing whether it will snow or not when you see it out the window? Today’s a good day to haul that out. Most places will see some snow today, but somewhere within the territory in which there are Roanoke Times box... http://www.roanoke.com//news/weather/1749458-6/southern-reach-of-storm-hard-to-figure-out.html weather 30980849@rss.roanoke.com Wed, 15 May 2013 17:29:17 March will be coming in like a polar bear. Windy, unseasonably cold weather will greet the start of meteorological spring on Friday, and through the weekend, as high pressure in eastern Canada traps a bubble of Arctic air over the southern and eastern Uni... http://www.roanoke.com//news/weather/1729554-6/march-will-begin-unseasonably-chilly.html weather 30921981@rss.roanoke.com Wed, 15 May 2013 17:29:17 The 2012-13 winter has been an exercise in mesoscale madness. “Mesoscale” is defined this way in the Random House dictionary: “In meteorology, the scale of phenomena that range in size from 1-100 km (0.7-67 miles), intermediate between small (single stor... http://www.roanoke.com//news/weather/1709470-6/meteorology-and-weather-dont-always-mesh.html weather 30863366@rss.roanoke.com Wed, 15 May 2013 17:29:17 It’s another living-on-the-edge weather system today. This is just the way the 2012-13 winter rolls. It has played havoc with my weekly snow meter, and produced several odd winter weather events in which some locations in Southwest Virginia get surprisi... http://www.roanoke.com//news/weather/1691206-6/today-a-tough-call-so-monitor-conditions.html weather 30804937@rss.roanoke.com Wed, 15 May 2013 17:29:17 Roanoke Valley residents know the drill. We wake up to an inch of slushy muck, puddles of cold rain or a bare ground, and see photos from our Southwest Virginia friends of pristine snow several inches deep covering the landscape 30 or 50 miles away. Our ... http://www.roanoke.com//news/weather/1681161-6/this-time-roanoke-got-biggest-snowfall-totals.html weather 30778318@rss.roanoke.com Wed, 15 May 2013 17:29:17 By any measure, last week was an extraordinary one in Southwest Virginia weather. Patchy ice on Monday morning. Sunny 70s on Tuesday. Heavy rain and strong winds on Wednesday. Breezy flurries with rivers flooding on Thursday. Light snow accumulations on F... http://www.roanoke.com//news/weather/1671222-6/more-winter-or-early-spring-you-can-expect.html weather 30748199@rss.roanoke.com Wed, 15 May 2013 17:29:17