Soaking Rain Showers

A good, soaking rain will continue to track northeast through Central Virginia today as an upper-level storm system passes overhead. Totals should run about a quarter of an inch or less, but this is still welcome rainfall as Richmond is now about 1.5" below average for the month. We'll have another round of rain this weekend as a large storm system approaches from the west. Here is the infrared satellite image Wednesday morning with the two storms depicted:

The second storm over the Western U.S. has a history of already producing severe weather out west, and this system is expected to bring strong to potentially severe thunderstorms to Central Virginia by Sunday.