Central Virginia Blue Ridge
A line of heavy thunderstorms moved across the area Wednesday afternoon resulting in high winds, heavy rains and some vivid lightning.
Our BRLM Weathernet stations had each picked up over 1/2″ of rain by 6:30 PM Wednesday evening with heavier amounts in other locations. Our BRL-Trager Brother’s station had .53″ of rain by 6:30 PM Wednesday. Up at 3500′ our BRL-Nature Foundation at Wintergreen station has .90″.
Some power outages were also reported as shown below in our tweet just after 6:30PM Wednesday evening.
Some without power across area per @MyCVEC map: http://t.co/v1ecfB1ZJ2 pic.twitter.com/lSykhR7bzO
— BlueRidgeLife (@BlueRidgeLife) September 2, 2015
As of 6:37 PM here’s the @MyCVEC areas reporting out via their outage map. pic.twitter.com/Q5IbzmQq5Y
— BlueRidgeLife (@BlueRidgeLife) September 2, 2015
Tommy says we can expect more scattered thunderstorms on Thursday afternoon as well, but the Labor Day Weekend is looking very nice!