Chief Meteorologist Patrick Rockey's First Warning Forecast
Our long-awaited cool down has finally arrived. But the hot and humid weather isn't giving up without a fight. We have a chance for strong-to-severe storms heading into the weekend.
These storms may produce damaging straight-line wind gusts and heavy downpours that could cause some localized flooding.
That cold front will linger across the region into next week and areas of low pressure will move along that front bringing a chance for showers and storms just about every day.
But believe it or not, parts of our region are still in a moderate drought. Folks on the Virginia portion of the Eastern Shore have not shared in the rainfall bounty this month.
But that will probably change, as we're expecting two to four inches of rain (with some higher local totals) over the next week.
And while we are in the middle of what is historically our hottest period of the year, we're expecting below-normal temperatures over at least the next week. Stay tuned.
