THIS PRELIMINARY FRAME OF DATA - UPDATED 9/8/26 11:59PM EDT OBSERVER NOTES: SURFACE FRONTS (FROPA) - (times noted are ET) 6th - cold front passes early day and slow moves S across Virginia FROST - none NEW STATION DAILY RECORDS: ( database to 7/1/76; daily record archives at http://genserva.com/wxr/rec.htm ) TUE, SEP 1, 2026 - The low temperature today of 76° at 7:00AM EDT in the West Cradock area of Portsmouth ESTABLISHED A NEW MAXIMUM MINIMUM TEMPERATURE RECORD for the date. The previous record was 75° set in 1980. WED, SEP 2, 2026 - The low temperature today of 77° at 6:35AM EDT in the West Cradock area of Portsmouth TIED THE STATION MAXIMUM MINIMUM TEMPERATURE RECORD for the date. The previous record was set in 1980. FRI, SEP 4, 2026 - The high temperature today of 97° at 2:51PM EDT in the West Cradock area of Portsmouth established a NEW STATION MAXIMUM HIGH TEMPERATURE RECORD for the date. The previous record was 95° set in 1985. +------+------+------+------+---+----+----+----+-------------+-----+-----+------+------+------+----+----+---+-------+-------+ | | | | | | | Number of Days | | | | Greatest Depth on Ground | +-----------------+------------------+----+----+-------------+--------------+-----------------+ of Snow, Ice Pellets or Ice | | Max Temperature | Min temperature | |Thunder 0 |Precipitation | Snow, Ice Plts + & Date 0.0" | +--------+--------+---------+--------+----+----+-------------|Maximum Daily | 0.0" +-------+-------------+-------+ | >=90°F | <=32°F | <=32°F | <=0°F |----|----|Fog/Dense Fog|0.14" on the 5th | | | Greatest 2-day total: 0.15" on the 5th & 6th| |--------+--------+---------+--------+----+----+ 1 0 |-------+------+---------+----+--+-------------+---------------| | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |----|----|-------------| Sky cover: Sunny/Fair/Clear 4 Partly Cloudy 2 Cloudy 0 | +--------+--------+---------+--------+----+----+-------------|--------------------------------+-----------------------------+ | Number of Days Rainfall | | | >=0.01 3 >=0.10 1 | | | >=0.50 0 >=1.00 0 | | | TRACE 0 | | +--------+--------+---------+--------+----+----+----------------------------------------------+-----------------------------+ | Notes: | |> 1st - 3rd: static, stationary high pressure over the Middle Atlantic continued sweltering heat and humid conditions over | | SErn Virginia; generally light winds SSW flow persisted; morning fog on the 3rd, new MAX MIN TEMP records 1st & 2nd | | HEAT ADVISORIES posted throughout the period | |> 4th: continued oppressive heat and high humidity; winds from the SSW do pick up a bit; once again TSRA move across SErn | | Virginia in the evening but heaviest activity remains to the NW, W, and SW of the station; just a light thundershower | | between 9 and 10PM; quite a lightning event to the W and SW most of the evening | |> 5th: cold front settles from NNW to SSE acros Virginia early hours with scattered SHRA and TSRA moving along the front | | again a second day passing across and through SErn VA in mid-to-late afternoon; varying rainfall totals but most stations| | recording less than a quarter inch; few pockets across the region seeing 1-inch+ rainfall; winds | |> 6th: high pressure builds across the East and SErn US to northern FL. Here, did have a light shower between 7 and 8 AM; | | sunny/fair/clear skies with light onshore; "cooler", more tolerable, drier temps, and humidity levels. | |> 7th & 8th: beautiful weather; skies sunny/fair/clear, lower humidities, temps average near normal, high pressure covers | | the entire Eastern half of the nation | | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| PRELIMINARY LOCAL CLIMATOLOGICAL DATA HOURLY MEASURABLE PRECIPITATION (Water Equivalent) SEPTEMBER 2026: PWRS Portsmouth, Virginia Station: PWRS Portsmouth, Virginia Latitude: 36° 59' 09" N Longitude: 76° 33' 00" W Elevation (ground): 13 feet Time Zone: Eastern ---+-----------------------------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------+--- | | | D| A.M. Hour Ending at | P.M. 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