Every forecast across The Mountain State,
highway-clear.

Every Virginia region shares one system — the same maps, the same live radar, the same climate record. No state east of the Mississippi is more vertical. The Allegheny Front wrings the rain out of every system that crosses it and leaves the eastern valleys dry; the high country holds snow into April and takes upslope off the Great Lakes all winter; and the narrow hollows of the southern coalfields flash-flood faster than anywhere in the East. Camille in 1969, the Buffalo Creek failure in 1972, the 2012 derecho and the thousand-year flood of June 2016 are all inside living memory.