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Last Nice Day for a While…

Cheryl Nelson — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 11:40:56 +0000

After some patchy dense fog in spots this morning, skies will become mostly sunny today. It’ll be warm too with highs in the lower to middle 70s. Enjoy today because it will be the last nice day for a while. Expect clouds, rain showers and windy conditions late Wednesday into Saturday morning. A possible coastal storm will keep our weather quite unsettled through the rest of the work-week. Temperatures will be drastically cooler with high temperatures only in the 50s.

Meteorologist Cheryl Nelson

Wild Weather Yesterday!

Cheryl Nelson — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 04:17:53 +0000

What an intense weather day! The lift from a frontal boundary combined with some energy from the sun and a wave of low pressure created some nasty thunderstorms this afternoon. There were numerous reports of damage in Suffolk, Portsmouth and parts of the northern neck and northeast North Carolina. Early reports from the Emergency Manager in Suffolk say that at least 65 homes in the Berkshire Meadows subdivision have minor damage from Sunday’s storms. Gusty winds toppled trees into homes, cars and across roadways, shingles were blown off rooftops and large hail and dangerous lightning reminded us of what a severe thunderstorms is capable of. Thankfully, so far there have been no reports of injuries.

Here are a few photos from WAVY-TV viewers. Remember, you can always send your photos of weather and storm damage to photos@wavy.com. Please make sure your photo size is less than 1 MB. Thank you!

From Darcy near Obici Hospital in Suffolk

Kings Landing area

Meteorologist Cheryl Nelson

A Mixed Bag of Everything

Cheryl Nelson — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 02:48:35 +0000

Rainbows. Sun. Clouds. Rain showers. Thunder. Lightning. Hail. Even some wind. Whew!

A pesky area of low pressure has been spinning off the New England coast over the past couple of days. Every now and then impulses rotate counter-clockwise around that low pressure system. One of those impulses moved over Hampton Roads this evening just before the sun set. At the same time, a cold pool of air was overhead… you combine cold air aloft with energy and the heating of the day…and boom: showers all of a sudden become thunderstorms. Some storms briefly became severe. Hail was reported in parts of North Carolina.

There will still be a few showers and thunderstorms around tonight, but with the loss of daytime heating (sun setting), the overall trend will be for showers and storms to weaken tonight. As a result of the rain that fell today, there will be areas of patchy fog tonight into Tuesday morning.

Thank you to all the WAVY-TV and Fox 43 viewers for sending their photos to photos@wavy.com. By the way, if you could resize your pictures to be less than 1 MB before you send them that would be great! Thank you!

Here are just a few pictures that we received today.

From Mario in Hampton

From Elizabeth in Elizabeth City

From Michael in York County

Meteorologist Cheryl Nelson