A rainy, windy week is in the cards for Hampton Roads, between one weather system that triggered a hazardous weather outlook and the fallout of a tropical storm forecasted for later in the week.
The National Weather Service at Wakefield issued a hazardous weather outlook, starting Sunday and continuing through the week. Thunderstorms and heavy rainfall may lead to localized flooding in central and southeast Virginia.
By Thursday night and into Friday, Hampton Roads residents could see rain and brisk wind from Tropical Storm Idalia, which was producing heavy rainfall across the eastern Yucatan Peninsula and western Cuba.
The storm is forecast to strengthen and could become a hurricane over the eastern Gulf of Mexico, hitting Florida by the middle of the week. Heavy rainfall is likely to spread into the Southeast U.S. by late this week.
“We probably will see some showers from that, and we’re also looking at some breezy conditions,” said Allison Mitchell, meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Wakefield.
Those “breezy conditions” on Thursday and Friday look like winds at 30 to 35 miles per hour, Mitchell said, not tropical storm force wind speeds.
It’s too early to say with certainty what Tropical Storm Idalia will bring to Hampton Roads.
“The forecast is going to evolve over the week as we get more details,” Mitchell said.
Cianna Morales, 757-957-1304, [email protected]
