Thursday, December 6, 2012

Mainly sunny today with highs in the low 50s! Sky cover will turn mainly cloudy tonight, keeping lows in the low 40s across the lowlands of West Virginia. While folks in the mountain & eastern counties will see lows in the 30s tonight. A trough building in the Midwest will bring another opportunity for rain across the mountain state Friday. We'll continue to see gradual warming each afternoon with highs reaching into the 50s & 60s for the weekend. But that long wave trough will continue to deepen as it moves into the eastern US. This means we'll keep mainly cloudy skies along with periods of rain Saturday, Sunday and Monday, next week. Periods of moderate to heavy rain are possible this weekend into early next week. So we may see isolated minor high water problems by Sunday night/Monday, especially along small creeks and streams. We'll keep snow and wintry precip out of the picture for now. But temperateness will become cold enough to support snow by Monday night/Tuesday. More later...

Image courtesy of HPC is of our 5-day rainfall totals through Monday night. Nearly 2" of rain are possible along the Ohio River Valley. 3/4 to 1 " are likely out east through this weekend.