Chief Meteorologist Patrick Rockey's First Warning Forecast
What you see is not what you get this week.
After a chilly start to the work week, with some of us waking up to freezing temperatures on Monday morning, we're looking at a major warming trend this week.
But we're also looking at one more really chilly morning. As a matter of fact, some of us could wake up to frost on Tuesday morning.
There is a frost advisory in effect for our inland Hampton Roads and eastern North Carolina communities.
A broad area of high pressure has set up shop over the area, bringing us mainly clear skies. The clear skies allow the heat of the day to escape into space, sending temperatures tumbling after sunset.
But that big H on the weather map will drift east over the next few days. With the clockwise flow of air around the high, our winds will shift to the south.
That will send temperatures up each day through the work week.
Tuesday will be warmer than Monday. And Wednesday will be warmer than Thursday. By Friday and Saturday, we expect high temperatures near 80 degrees. That's more than ten degrees warmer than normal.
High pressure will also keep us high and dry. We have virtually no chance for rain through the next seven days.
However, the longer-range forecast is for wet weather to return to the forecast during the first half on November. Stay tuned.
