Chief Meteorologist Patrick Rockey’s First Warning Forecast
How's this for a Hampton Roads forecast: high temperatures in the 80s, 70s, 60s, 50s and maybe even 40s! That's what we can expect over the next week as a series of cold front send temperatures tumbling just in time for the start of spring.
The first cold front will move through on Friday afternoon and evening. Ahead of that front, temperatures will soar into the 80s again for many of us.
The cold front won't have much moisture to work with, so we're only expecting a few showers and possibly a stray thunderstorm.
Behind that cold front, we're expecting high temperatures 15 to 20 degrees colder on Saturday. Even so, highs in the lower 60s will be a lot closer to our normal than highs in the lower 80s.
Temperatures rebound for St. Patrick's Day on Sunday. We'll top out around 70 degrees, with a mix of clouds and sunshine.
With another cold front pushing through, expect a slight (20%) chance for a shower during the second half of the weekend. But it does look like most of us will stay dry and we could actually enjoy a mainly dry weekend.
Behind that cold temperatures will drop and stay down for the work week. In fact, some of us may not even climb out of the 40s on Tuesday, the first day of spring!
