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|By Christopher Holtzman
Hurricane Isabel is the most recent hurricane to have devastating effects on the Shenandoah Valley, striking the area 17 years ago.
Updated: 12 hours ago
|By Benjamin Beddoes
The western wildfires have caused great impact to the western region of the United States bringing poor air quality due to the smoke being on the ground. But in our area the effects aren’t on the ground, they’re up in the sky!
Updated: Sep. 16, 2020 at 11:29 PM EDT
|By JAY REEVES, ANGIE WANG and JEFF MARTIN
Sally was the second hurricane to hit the Gulf Coast in less than three weeks and the latest to blow in during one of the busiest hurricane seasons ever.
Updated: Sep. 16, 2020 at 10:23 PM EDT
|By WHSV First Alert Storm Team
It’s not uncommon for wildfire smoke to be wrapped up into the jetstream and into the atmospheric flow and carried other places far away from where fires are burning. What’s unique right now, is how much smoke there is across the Midwest and East Coast, all from the wildfire smoke across the western United States.
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Updated: Sep. 16, 2020 at 6:05 PM EDT
|By Benjamin Beddoes
We are six days away from the first day of fall and many people are dealing with allergies. Allergists say the timing of allergies in the fall is different from the actual season.
Updated: Sep. 12, 2020 at 9:38 PM EDT
|By Benjamin Beddoes
Saturday our area experienced “the wedge". We experienced cooler temperatures, low level clouds, and little temperature variation.
Updated: Sep. 10, 2020 at 8:50 PM EDT
|By Benjamin Beddoes
September 10th is the peak of the Atlantic Hurricane Season. This means on average, the most tropical activity occurs on this date.
Updated: Sep. 8, 2020 at 9:12 PM EDT
|By Benjamin Beddoes
Commonly we will say “only in our state do we experience 4 seasons in one week.” Thanks to a powerful cold front, the Rockies turned from summer to winter in the snap of a finger.
Updated: Sep. 8, 2020 at 1:47 PM EDT
|By Ed Payne
The high in Scottsbluff, near the Wyoming border, peaked at 105 on Saturday. Tuesday’s temperature will top out in the low 40s.
Updated: Sep. 7, 2020 at 8:53 PM EDT
|By Benjamin Beddoes
We have made it to Labor Day. Some people refer to this as the unofficial end of summer. So how fast does the weather change? Let’s take a look.
7-Day Forecast
Updated: Sep. 4, 2020 at 5:12 PM EDT
|By Aubrey Urbanowicz
It’s been 24 years since hurricane Fran slammed the East Coast and dumped incredible amounts of rain in the Shenandoah Valley, and the Potomac Highlands.
Updated: Sep. 1, 2020 at 10:11 PM EDT
|By Chief Meteorologist Brent Watts
An injured bird typically found near the ocean was discovered under a car in Halifax.
Updated: Sep. 1, 2020 at 1:02 PM EDT
|By My Sherie Johnson
Tracy Underwood's family rode out Laura in their bathroom for four hours and prayed for relief.
Updated: Aug. 31, 2020 at 8:26 PM EDT
|By Aubrey Urbanowicz
After a hot and fairly dry July, August was the complete opposite.
Updated: Aug. 29, 2020 at 9:06 PM EDT
|By Benjamin Beddoes
A cold front that produced severe thunderstorms and the remnants of Laura passed through our area yesterday evening and finished up this morning. Here’s what happened across the area.
Updated: Aug. 28, 2020 at 10:55 PM EDT
|By Benjamin Beddoes
Strong storms moved through the state of Connecticut Thursday evening.
Updated: Aug. 28, 2020 at 6:04 PM EDT
|By Aubrey Urbanowicz
Storm chasing, people who get so close to a storm for the love of weather, and for gathering data. One storm chaser describes what it’s like to be in the eye wall of a hurricane, and why he chases storms.
Updated: Aug. 27, 2020 at 6:46 PM EDT
|By Benjamin Beddoes
As summer is wrapping up, harvest season is now in session.
Updated: Aug. 27, 2020 at 6:40 PM EDT
|By Simone McKenny
Staunton and Augusta County are preparing for Hurricane Laura to make its way to the Shenandoah Valley.
Updated: Aug. 27, 2020 at 6:25 PM EDT
|By Benjamin Beddoes
Hurricane Laura made landfall in Louisiana early Wednesday morning and brought maximum sustained winds of 150 mph. That kind of intensity doesn’t happen often in the U.S.
Updated: Aug. 25, 2020 at 7:34 PM EDT
|By Aubrey Urbanowicz
On Thursday afternoon, August 6th a single storm became a powerful supercell with damaging winds and that cell, was rotating dropped two tornadoes in the region.
Updated: Aug. 23, 2020 at 10:00 PM EDT
|By Benjamin Beddoes
Flash flooding struck the Staunton area and surrounding communities again after the first one occurred 2 weeks ago.
Two weeks after the Aug. 8th Staunton flooding event, local businesses are affected by more flooding
Updated: Aug. 23, 2020 at 7:40 PM EDT
|By Stephanie Penn
"All of our drains were absolutely clear this time, but it still didn’t matter because once that creek gets backed to a certain level, the pipes have nowhere to go.”
Updated: Aug. 20, 2020 at 8:17 PM EDT
|By Associated Press
Two new tropical depressions have formed in the Atlantic and could be on tracks toward the United States.
Updated: Aug. 19, 2020 at 9:07 PM EDT
|By Associated Press
Thousands of people were under orders to evacuate in regions surrounding the San Francisco Bay Area Wednesday as nearly 40 wildfires blazed across the state amid a blistering heat wave now in its second week.
Updated: Aug. 19, 2020 at 6:19 PM EDT
|By Benjamin Beddoes
For Valley farmers, weather always plays a significant role with the crops they grow.
Updated: Aug. 19, 2020 at 6:06 PM EDT
|By Benjamin Beddoes
With recent flash flooding in our area and other parts of Virginia, it may be a good time to look into flood insurance.
Updated: Aug. 19, 2020 at 9:20 AM EDT
|By Christopher Holtzman
The peak of hurricane season is approaching and it has already been a very active season with several records set. In fact, the rest of the season looks fairly active.
Updated: Aug. 18, 2020 at 9:03 PM EDT
|By Spencer Maki
Millions of Iowa crop acres were damaged in the Monday, Aug. 10 Derecho. Early estimates from the state’s Secretary of Agriculture found roughly 14 million acres of insured crops were damaged, with the majority being corn fields.
Updated: Aug. 18, 2020 at 4:57 PM EDT
|By Aubrey Urbanowicz
It’s now been 51 years, since one the most powerful hurricanes ever to strike the United States. Hurricane Camille, the category five hurricane struck the Gulf Coast on August 17, 1969. The next night, 10-31" of rain fell in parts of Virginia.
Updated: Aug. 17, 2020 at 9:38 PM EDT
|By Steve Timko
The National Weather Service in Reno on Saturday warned of a tornado caused by the Loyalton Fire in California west of Reno
Updated: Aug. 17, 2020 at 8:33 PM EDT
|By Aubrey Urbanowicz
Hurricane Camille is only one of four category 5 hurricanes to make landfall on the U.S. It’s also the second most powerful in terms of maximum wind speed and minimum pressure.
Updated: Aug. 17, 2020 at 7:10 PM EDT
|By Lileana Pearson
People in Iowa are cleaning up the damage left behind after a powerful derecho one week ago. Many are still without power and millions of acres of corn destroyed.
Updated: Aug. 17, 2020 at 6:27 PM EDT
Drought, wildfires, extreme heat all out West
Updated: Aug. 17, 2020 at 5:14 PM EDT
|By Associated Press
A rare summer thunderstorm brought lightning that sparked several small blazes in Northern California early Sunday and stoked a huge forest fire that has forced hundreds of people from their homes north of Los Angeles.
Updated: Aug. 17, 2020 at 11:26 AM EDT
|By Associated Press
An automated measuring system in California’s Death Valley reported a reading that would be among the highest ever recorded globally if it is confirmed.
Updated: Aug. 16, 2020 at 12:02 AM EDT
|By Andrew Freiden and Nick Russo
5-9″ of rain has fallen in parts of Chesterfield county, with more to come in large portions of the the county.
Updated: Aug. 14, 2020 at 8:55 PM EDT
|By Aaron Scheinblum
Currently, it is estimated that strong winds from a derecho on Monday destroyed ten million acres of farmland statewide in Iowa
Updated: Aug. 14, 2020 at 8:22 PM EDT
|By Stephanie Penn
Part of the area has seen 4-9″ of rain in the last week while others have seen less than 1″.
Updated: Aug. 14, 2020 at 5:08 PM EDT
|By Chief Meteorologist Brent Watts
Lightning stripped the bark off this tree during a thunderstorm over Penhook.
Updated: Aug. 14, 2020 at 12:58 PM EDT
|By Chief Meteorologist Brent Watts
The storm struck Savannah, Georgia as a Category 2 hurricane on August 12th, then moved inland and slowed down days after landfall. The end result was a stalled tropical system over mountainous terrain.
Updated: Aug. 14, 2020 at 10:28 AM EDT
|By Benjamin Beddoes
Flooding has been a major concern over the last week and will continue to be an issue into the weekend, but what do the various flood warnings mean? Let’s find out.
Updated: Aug. 11, 2020 at 8:50 PM EDT
|By Aubrey Urbanowicz
A path of damage, more than 700 miles after a powerful derecho slams the Midwest
Updated: Aug. 11, 2020 at 7:26 PM EDT
|By John Hood
Saturday night’s flooding affected multiple parts of the park including playgrounds, sidewalks, baseball fields, and even the duck pond.
Updated: Aug. 11, 2020 at 6:12 PM EDT
|By Aubrey Urbanowicz
One of the most impressive meteor showers will be peaking soon
Updated: Aug. 10, 2020 at 11:12 PM EDT
|By Aubrey Urbanowicz
A powerful derecho swept across the Great Plains and Midwest on Monday leaving more than 1 million people without power, and a damage path of more than 800 miles.
Updated: Aug. 10, 2020 at 9:35 PM EDT
|By Aubrey Urbanowicz
How much rain fell that led to flash flooding in Staunton on Saturday
Updated: Aug. 10, 2020 at 4:36 PM EDT
|By Rachel Hirschheimer, NBC29
Neighbors in Staunton are picking up the pieces after flooding tore through their community Saturday, August 8.
Updated: Aug. 10, 2020 at 11:18 AM EDT
|By Tara Todd, NBC29
Many businesses in Staunton had already been struggling with the COVID-19 pandemic, and now are facing the prospect of rebuilding after flash flooding late Saturday night.
Updated: Aug. 9, 2020 at 10:28 PM EDT
|By Stephanie Penn
The city of Staunton is working hard today to repair any damages made by Saturday’s rain.