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Your work week forecast: Warmer, more humid, with a chance for thunderstorms

1 week ago in Local, Native Advertising, Weather

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HARRISONBURG VA: (Rocktown Now) – Warmer and a little more humid today with a chance for a few showers and thunderstorms. The chance will increase greatly on Tuesday, as a strong cold front brings the chance for strong to severe storms to the valley. High pressure will bring a return of sunshine starting Wednesday and continuing through the end of the week. The next chance for rain will be next weekend into the first week in August, as a low is expected to form over the Midwest and move east this weekend.

The WSVA local AccuWeather forecast for Harrisonburg and the Shenandoah Valley

Tonight: increasing clouds. Low 65. Winds south 4-8 mph.

Tomorrow: sunny spells with a gusty thunderstorm; humid. Thunderstorms can bring flooding downpours, hail and damaging wind gusts. High 86. Winds west-southwest 7-14 mph.

Wednesday: variable cloudiness. High 81. Winds northwest 7-14 mph.

Thursday: mostly sunny. High 82. Winds north 6-12 mph.

Friday: mostly sunny. High 83. Winds east-northeast 4-8 mph.


Sunset today will be at 8:30 p.m.
Sunrise on Tuesday will be at 6:14 a.m.

Historical weather data for this date at the Dale Enterprise Weather Station
High: 99 in 1966
Low: 46 in 1962
Precipitation: 1.80 in 1958

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