CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The National Weather Service indicated a cold front started moving into West Virginia early Monday and it’s a shift which will significantly change the weather pattern the state has been in for the past couple of weeks.
But Meteorologist John Peck says don’t get too comfortable with it.
“Heat index values will be in the mid to upper 80’s, but by Thursday back in the upper 90’s,” he said.
The rainfall possibilities will return on Friday as well and stretch into the weekend. The humid air could trigger a thunderstorm again just about any time from Friday into the weekend.
“We’re going to have heat building back up between now and the end of the week, but the good news is we won’t have much rain with it, so there is that,” he added.
The break comes just in time as soils were becoming saturated from regular downpours in recent days. The National Weather Service reported high water in parts of Boone, Kanawha, and Lincoln Counties on Sunday evening. The flooding was not significant, but each day as the soil became saturated it was taking less and less of each downpour to drive streams out of their banks.
The forecasters have a flood watch in effect for the southern coalfield counties through this evening.