December needed just eight days to snow on us twice. March may get a lot of us above 80 twice in its first seven days.
And just like that, the coldest winter in over a decade for most of Cardinal News’ Southwest and Southside Virginia coverage area will flip over to some temperatures more like late May than early March.
The brief chill that brought us cold rain and a little bit of spotty sleet, snow and freezing rain (mostly north and west of Roanoke) on Monday and early Tuesday is being pushed away by a growing and intense dome of high pressure spreading from the southwest that will send temperatures soaring into the 70s areawide over the next couple of days and perhaps even lower 80s for some by Friday and Saturday…