NORFOLK, Va. — We tied for the 3rd warmest Halloween on record, with temperatures getting to 82 degrees this afternoon at Norfolk Internation Airport, and also made it to 29 days of no rain.
Overnight tonight, temperatures will be warm, in the mid to upper 60s in most areas with partly cloudy skies.
As we head into Friday, we have slight risk of an isolated shower at Norfolk International Airport Friday evening and early Saturday morning but there is a good chance the all-time record of 33 days without measurable rain will fall.
The US Drought Monitor updated early this morning, and much of Hampton Roads is now under "Moderate Drought".
So why have we been so dry? A ridge of high pressure has been dominating the weather pattern not only here locally but up and down the entire Eastern Seaboard. The last time we measured any rainfall at all was on October 2 and even that was a whopping .01". Our running total rainfall for the entire month so far is only .06" putting us in the record books so far as the 3rd driest October ever.
That same area of high pressure responsible for the long stretch of sunny, beautiful, and dry weather will begin to migrate east and offshore, this will shift our winds out of the southwest and that means a warming trend is about to commence.
Our next weather system arrives on Friday in the way of a cold front. This will bring us a reality check as we head into the first few days of November. Temperatures tumble into the mid-60s this weekend. In terms of any rain chance, they remain minimal on Friday morning.
By Election Day, we'll warm back up to the middle 70s and sunshine will continue. So no worries about the weather as you go to the polls.
In the Tropics...
We are tracking three areas in the tropics.
There are two in the Caribbean and one way out in the northcentral Atlantic, which is no threat to the US.
The National Hurricane Center has designated an area in the south Caribbean Sea as an area to watch over the next week, with a 60% chance of development. An area of low pressure may develop as we head into the middle of next week, and could eventually develop into a tropical depression.
The American (GFS) model is more confident than the European model that a system will develop as we get into the end of next week and has it moving toward the north-northwest. The European model still holds back on any major development for the same time frame. As we go throughout the next couple of days, we have plenty of time to monitor this potential development.
The second area is just to the north of the Dominican Republic, but only has a 10% chance of development within the next week.
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