at 10:22 PM by Pierce Larkin

West Virginia’s Weather News of The Day

h/t infoplease.com
h/t infoplease.com

This map is of West Virginia, as many of you know. West Virginia is an awesome state, filled with incredible landscapes, places to hike and fish, and places to see. However, the past couple of days, West Virginia has seen some of the worst flooding in the state’s history.

With northwesterly flow has come severe weather and thunderstorms for our region, but that has lead to almost continuous training of heavy rainfall across the state of West Virginia over the past few days. With an incredible amount of atmospheric moisture present, namely high precipitable water values, this has lead to flooding. PWAT values have been high across the Ohio Valley for several days this week, but Wednesday and Thursday they were reaching the 2″ threshold across much of the state of WV.

PWAT values were very high on Thursday morning. h/t SPC
PWAT values were very high on Thursday morning. h/t SPC
The reflectivity at the same time as the PWAT values of that image before. h/t SPC
The reflectivity at the same time as the PWAT values of that image before. h/t SPC

Heavy rainfall didn’t stop in some spots for hours, and thunderstorms just trained along boundaries laid by other storms. This ultimately set up a disastrous scene of flash flooding across the state, as 23 people are now confirmed dead.

It was an active week for severe weather.

There has honestly been organized severe weather everyday this week other than Monday.

The storm reports from this week. h/t SPC
The storm reports from this week. h/t SPC

We have had a very active pattern within northwesterly flow across the eastern US, and while Wednesday was arguably a bust (the event was very, very hyped up), the week has been active. We have seen crazy lightning across out region, very heavy rainfall and warm weather. Basically, every type of summer weather that can occurred has occurred by this point.

An eastern China city was struck by a tornado

A large city of 7 million was struck by a devastating tornado yesterday.

 

This tornado produced high amounts of damage across the city, and the damage looks to be of the violent tornado. The storm was incredibly saddening, as nearly 100 have died due to it so far, and over 800 have been injured.

This weekend looks hot

We’ll be on the eastern edge of a ridge, but even being placed on that will keep us toasty. Highs are looking upwards and into the 90s. If you have any outdoor plans, be sure to stay hydrated, and place that sunscreen on! Also: be sure to check back in with WxOrNotBG tomorrow morning for a fresh weekend forecast!