Beyond The Forecast: Cuddle alerts likely for your Valentine’s date night!
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Happy Monday! It’s the season of love in Southwest and Central Virginia as Valentine’s Day is coming up this weekend.
You’re probably already planning how you will spend your time with that special someone in your life, so we want to give an early look at what kind of weather we could potentially be dealing with.
Before I get to the forecast, let’s take a look at the “weather extremes” for the holiday in Roanoke. We have data back to 1912 for the Star City.
Beyond The Forecast: Diving into the history of Groundhog Day and the rodent’s weather predictions
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Happy Monday! We here at Your Local Weather Authority hope everyone enjoyed our late-January snowstorm. It’s officially a new month and we’re looking ahead to one of the more bizarre “holidays” we recognize each year: Groundhog Day.
We can trace Groundhog Day back to the German holiday “Candlemas”, which was celebrated on February 2 each year. Revelers used a badger, bear or fox to predict the start of spring, based on whether it was a sunny day or not.
The Pennsylvania Dutch were immigrants from Germanic-speaking areas of Europe and created the tradition of Groundhog Day. While the first mention of the holiday in the United States was noted in 1840, the celebration in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania did not begin until 1887.
Heads up! Next winter storm to bring mix of snow, ice Sunday
Snow, ice to cause travel issues and possible power outages Sunday
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Your Local Weather Authority will be tracking snow and a wintry mix at times Sunday.
4:00 p.m. Update
As we continue to learn more about this system, we continue to make little changes to the forecast. We have updated our snowfall totals map to reflect our latest thinking which is that areas such as Roanoke and Lynchburg could receive higher totals. Highest snowfall totals will be north of the 460 corridor and lower totals the farther south you travel.