Chief Meteorologist Patrick Rockey's First Warning Forecast
Good news and bad news heading into the long holiday weekend.
The bad news: we are tracking a developing nor’easter, which will bring some heavy rain and strong, gusty winds.
The good news: it won’t be wet and windy all weekend. As the storm slowly makes its way in our direction and gets stronger, we will wake up to gusty winds on Saturday morning.
Expect Northeast winds 15 to 25 mph with some higher gusts. And those winds will become even more intense in the afternoon.
But across Hampton Roads, most of the day will be dry, with our rain chances climbing late in the afternoon and into Saturday evening.
However, across eastern, North Carolina, especially the Outer Banks, bands of showers are possible throughout the day, but especially after noon.
Rain will become more widespread on Saturday evening and more intense on Sunday morning.
It looks like we will wake up to heavy downpours and maybe even a few rumbles of thunder.
Scattered showers and storms will continue into Memorial Day on Monday. But it looks like the strong winds will not.
However, breezy conditions will pick back up on Tuesday and stay with us into mid week.
And so will the chance for rain. As a matter of fact, we have a decent chance for rain for six of the next seven days.
And as the rain moves out, and the sky clears, temperatures will be warming up. In fact, it looks like next Friday will be our first day with above-normal temperatures in several weeks. Stay tuned.
