Scattered storms develop in Sunday’s hot and humid conditions

ROANOKE, Va. – We here at Your Local Weather Authority hope you got the weekend off to a good start on Saturday!

Storms overperformed the models a bit during the afternoon and evening as we saw a couple of severe thunderstorm and flood warnings.

Scattered storms are expected to develop again today amid the hot and humid conditions. We expect coverage to be highest between 1 and 8 p.m.

Today’s hour-by-hour rain/storm chances (Copyright 2021 by WSLS 10 – All rights reserved.)

Basically any storm that forms could carry the risk for stronger wind gusts if it is able to strengthen. Most of our region is in a level 1 severe weather risk from the Storm Prediction Center.

Any risk for localized flooding is expected to stay confined to the Appalachians.

This afternoon & evening’s storm threats (Copyright 2021 by WSLS 10 – All rights reserved.)

Did I mention that it would be hot and humid? Although the actual temperatures won’t be much higher than Saturday, we expect the humidity to increase a good bit.

That means the “feels like” temperatures or the heat index will be well into the 90s for many of you. Stay cool out there!

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This afternoon’s peak temperatures and heat index values (Copyright 2021 by WSLS 10 – All rights reserved.)

Monday looks like more of the same: typical summertime heat and humidity, along with scattered storms.

While the heat isn’t expected to let up Tuesday through Thursday, I do believe the chance for storms will come down some. You can thank a large high pressure system over the East Coast for that.

What we’re tracking Tuesday 2 p.m. (Copyright 2021 by WSLS 10 – All rights reserved.)

Look for storm chances to rise again by Friday and the start of next weekend.

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