We Need More Rain!

You may have seen the stories from our morning news, but city leaders are thinking about mandating voluntary water restrictions to the area. Even though we saw some rain last Friday, things have been very dry for the past 30 days. You can see on the map below - most areas across Virginia are 1.5 to 3" below normal.



Interestingly we are not officially in drought conditions yet. In fact we are not even close.



However, if you check out the stream flow across the region, most rivers and streams are flowing below normal...including the James (orange/red dots are below normal).



This is a situation that we will continue to watch very closely. Luckily, the chances for rain are looking pretty good for Saturday!