Today - the first Friday of May - will be the final episode of the latest dry stretch for Mecklenburg county. That's a good thing, since much of Southside Virginia is now classified as being "Abnormally Dry" on this week's Drought Monitor. Showers arriving tonight and hanging around off and on this weekend will put an end to the recent aridity (and wash the pollen out of the air as well!).
As this is being written a backdoor cold front has already reached northern Virginia and the Washington DC area. This boundary will continue south and west today, driven by high pressure centered atop New England. Ahead of this feature today looks to be partly to mostly sunny with afternoon highs again reaching the upper 80s.
The front will cross Mecklenburg county near the dinner hour and will swap winds around out of the east. Rain will arrive after sunset this evening along with cooler air from off the Atlantic waters. Tonight will be cloudy with showers, and temperatures will drop to near the 60 degree mark by dawn Saturday.
Tomorrow then looks to be cloudy and damp, although the rain will be intermittent rather than steady. Afternoon thermometer readings will be much lower than today's, with highs on Saturday struggling to reach the low 70s. Sunday will continue to be gloomy along with more rain and possibly thunderstorms as temperatures top out in the mid- to upper 70s.
As shown on the right hand panel of the above graphic total rain amounts collected in county gauges this weekend will be between a half-inch and an inch of liquid. That's not enough to completely dispel the dry conditions, but it'll help!
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