first alert meteorologist brent watts breaks down the impacts. complete details of your first alert forecast aor to the camera today we do why did with the clouds the rain you the drizzle the fall you name it it's a actually helpless out in the long run for lotta locations and a michelle you air that is now settled in with you charleston it 58 bristol it's into were forty five in roanoke thirty seven and hot springs it's it's a waves it we get this time year will happen tomorrow's were expecting that to slowly begin to breakdown tonight will keep some clouds and showers rain begins to move back in overnight low temperatures running in the upper thirties all part of this large storm system down here spinning across parts of the southern states polling yeah all why very heavy rain and there's also some sheer with this of those instability that's where the tornado watch boxes are in much ineffective we what you can see just that onslaught of heavy rain a moves in along with that's coming it from the gulf of mexico all these red and magenta boxes thos

first alert meteorologist brent watts looks at what may be happening. el nino has taken center stage as the meteorological buzz word, and with good reason. it was the strongest in decades. the warmer than normal ocean water in the pacific has influenced everything from the lack of atlantic hurricanes to a spell of winter tornado outbreaks. but, could climate change also be a contributing factor in our extreme winter weather? remember sweating to december's record heat? it wasn't just a local winter heat wave. it was a second year in a row earth's surface temperatures were the warmest since modern record keeping began in 1880. gavin schmidt/director of goddard institute for space studies: 2014 was also a record warm year, but just by a little bit. 2015 blew it into the grass. so, if the world is getting warmer, why were we stuck shoveling a foot of snow? research suggests a produce shorter winter seasons, with less snow overall. however, because of more moisture in the atmosphere, when snowstorms do occur, they will be big. sean sublette/ meteorologist,

first alert meteorologist brent watts looks at just how much we can expect. almost an inch of snow it's an coming down he saw that where ayman was there in the new river valley this is another picture from top of floyd there in copper hill stacy der were get in some snow there coding the ground and least and i would for some reports of floyd saint this keeps up a couple inches of snow enough to were forecasting for some higher elevations what are elevations not quite that much pair low-pressure system belowits way up here across a great lakes with happening is it is little pinwheels of energy. there's one right there there's another one back here another one back here anything. so just keep moving through over the next couple days does bring some of though snow showers throughout the law most areas does can have some on and off snow showers in the higher elevations especially the greenbrier valley allegheny highlands you know along interstate seventy seven koror get a be in line for that snow over and over again and those of the places that rita be watching t

first alert meteorologist brent watts is here with what we can expect. tonightor her own or are aging user we get maybe one or two days of the tomb the cold conditions it warms back of this is not can a be the case were also have added win soon soaks we have what's called windchill that for you take the wind factor in the temperatures cold air and that's what it feels like so windchill advisors have been issued for all the areas easy here and paint a pretty much include the rona valley hiding one quarter or new river valley and all the way up across the allegheny highlands this is where it's going to be the coldest what you factor in the temperature along with the when still in a exact is you look at your thermometer in the morning when you wake up it may say no five ten fifty degrees but which is step out into it juergen a field much much colder than that so these when you wake up early in the morning at the busstop it's can a feel almost like two degrees in royal oak roanoke almost 10 below across hot springs in the theater doesn't warm-up that much al

first alert meteorologist brent watts has the hour by hour forecast. here is a look at the highs, lows and regional airports. we are back with the complete first alert forecast after this 20to snow was a gallon blacksburg at of her about where it's been snowing for a while now already coding the ground and deep but enough that's causing some problems if you're in be trying to drive along those roadways this evening already seeing that move van we saw a few the snow showers this afternoon now really the bulk of the snow starting to shift its way yet this is one piece of it that will move through bring additional snow through the first part of tomorrow we start to get that change over to occur will time that inching were some of these deeper blue colors are this is were were get in some of that moderate snow bands across parts of botta bedford county along the i eighty one quarter or in a botta todd rockbridge counties that also a few that heavier bands from july askey details no wine and also in martinsville were it's can a start to pick up two over the

meteorologist brent watts is forecasting 60s. complete details of your first alert planyes the grass will be greater for sure we would have this weekend temperatures in the sixties in fact it seventy four radar dallas seventy four in little that arrives in on a stick planwas one of the newest weather stations in the area and all not forty three hundred feet very giles county daycare was up there today's instructor at of virginia tech in the meteorology department was under got the pictures this is ryan i so most like feathers there coming from off the weather station what happens is you get the fault that forms up they are below freezing and he just sticks to inform some listings the featherlike piece of ice is can a sticks out we've seen these before been mountain a great place to see rom i still lotta country to the fault that forms above below freezing out there soaks a interesting to see said is been below freezing fifty mile-per-hour winds over the past couple days quite interesting weather their day thanks for sharing those photos with us much colder there exi

meteorologist brent watts says lows in the single digits. complete details of your first alert forecast frontblowing snow showers got it all across southwest virginia alive look from lane stadium camera there foggy sports.com twenty five degrees current temperature blacksburg with the cloudy skies notice this those winds persistent out of the northwest at about sixteen miles per hour makes it feel like twelve degrees is you got yeah because they're coming in at about twenty two miles per hour very very gusty winds of the of the weather service office they reported of snow there with the past twenty24 hours up like today but appomattox gusts anywhere from 25 to 30 mi./h. that's a place it's about 230 today salem also the rocky mount martinsville showing that almost 30 mile-per-hour gust if you look at some of the snowfall totals evincing a half-inch to an inch from gathright again allegheny county up toward floyd mainly the higher elevations but burkes garden taz well 4 inches of snow really continue to see these cloudy conditions over the next couple days been seeing noodles wa

but meteorologist brent watts says winter is far from over. complete details of your first alert forecast andall snow melting away the severe downtown roanoke and you can see that the skies it cleared out looking good across erie was sherry the time lapse from wytheville love check out the beautiful blanket of snow on the ground want to happen sue it is the day goes on it starts melting away we at those temperatures up to the thirties and forties today think by the end of the week most of this is going to be gone with the exception of linger but you be of the 60s by the weekend. right now. danville 29 the cold spot and hot springs with some lighter snow showers the to been moving through the week little disturbance. most of it up up across the great lakes he could see some clout cover that's a streaming into the mountains of spilling over soaks what have partly cloudy to at times mostly cloudy skies to the evening but eventually clearing out overnight. most of the snow again confined to the west virginia mountains. the ski country though enjoy that the course of great skiing weat

meteorologist brent watts has a look at the warmer weekend forecast. complete details of your first alert forecast right after the break stilla few relook at a data just also finish you are graphic talk about next week potential storms a rain is it's no with a little bow look me ul, unless you have allergies. may see it differently. is approved to relieve both itchy, watery eyes d congestion. ther nasal allergy spray can say that. e breathe in allergens our bodies react by ducing six key inflammatory substances that use our symptoms. stllergy pills only control one substance. onase controls six. d six is greater than one. te allergy relief or incomplete. t your eyes decide. ase. 6>1 changes everything. lots of sunshine today a you insist this picture of that body into the weekend most of that snow will be gone except for some of the bigger piles with these temperatures easy to see why fifties now roanoke fifty one smith mountlake just ... up for you i fifty three danville look at sixty three in charleston also the bristol it's into that warm air is starting to move van from the west and t