With hurricane season a few weeks away, the time to prepare is now!
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Happy Monday and welcome to another edition of the Beyond The Forecast newsletter! We’re talking hurricanes and how you can prepare for them, even though the season does not officially begin until June 1.
Each day will focus on a different way for you to be ready for tropical cyclones. For example, today’s topic is about developing an evacuation plan.
You may not think this is worth doing, as we live so far inland, but it may be worthwhile to think about if you live in a flood-prone area. Remember, we received 12-18″ of rain across eight different tropical systems in 2020 and flooding was an issue at times.
Did you see the “rainbow clouds” on Sunday? We explain cloud iridescence
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Happy Monday and welcome to another edition of the Beyond The Forecast newsletter! We’re coming off a beautiful weekend in the Commonwealth, which included reports of an uncommon sight in Sunday’s afternoon sky.
We received numerous photos from folks in the Roanoke Valley of “rainbow clouds.” The picture at the top of this newsletter is from Kelly Camden Guill in Bonsack.
Below, you’ll see a nice photo from WSLS’s Samantha Smith at Green Goat in Roanoke.
Another WSLS employee, Rafael Ibarra, passed along this gorgeous photo of Sunday’s pretty phenomenon. But what are we seeing here?
New tool estimates solar and wind power production based on weather forecasts
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Happy Monday and welcome to another edition of the Beyond The Forecast newsletter! We’ve been talking a lot about sustainable sources of energy lately, due to Earth Day last week.
A new tool developed by Climate Central can show us how much solar and wind energy is being produced in each county in our corner of the Commonwealth!
It’s called WeatherPower and uses National Weather Service forecasts, along with information about existing renewable energy sources, to predict how much energy will be generated on a given day.
Franklin County was ravaged by an EF-3 tornado two years ago today
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Happy Monday and welcome to another edition of the Beyond The Forecast newsletter! It’s a bittersweet day for some folks in Franklin County as they look back at an EF-3 tornado that moved through two years ago.
The twister’s path was 8.2 miles long and 250 yards wide. It reached maximum wind speeds of 159 miles per hour and injured two people.
The National Weather Service (NWS) office in Blacksburg conducted the storm survey. You can read about the nitty-gritty details here.
The damage pictured in the header of this newsletter happened on Windy Ridge Road, north of Sydnorsville. Below, you see a modular home on Fishburn Mountain Road that was destroyed by the tornado.
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