Chief Meteorologist Patrick Rockey’s First Warning Forecast
Developing nor’easter. Two words you do not want to hear heading into a long holiday weekend.
But it does look like a storm system moving up the coast will bring us wet and windy weather through the holiday weekend and into early next week.
Friday will be generally dry. We expect plenty of clouds, but only a slight chance for rain.
However, the winds will be quite gusty. Expect in northeast wind, 20 to 30+ miles per hour.
Rain will roll up the coast on Saturday. We expect bands of showers, especially across eastern North Carolina. But some of the wet weather could sneak into Hampton Roads.
And Saturday will be our windiest day. We expect northeast winds, 30 to 40 mph with some higher gusts.
On Sunday, we introduce the chance of some thunderstorms, and that will be our best bet for wet weather across Hampton roads. Most of us will wake up to showers along with heavy downpours, and the forecast is much the same for Memorial Day on Monday.
The rain becomes more scattered on Tuesday, but we’re still looking at a decent chance for wet weather.
Dry weather returns on Wednesday and into Thursday. And temperatures warm up to near 80° for the first day of June.
