If the weather-heads and their end-of-week predications are correct, Hanna is pouring on your personal, private parade even as you read this.

Although Virginia may be in a pre-emptive state of emergency as Tropical Storm Hanna approaches, local vintners aren’t worried that the rain will hurt their grapes.

Prepare to turn the air conditioner on full blast again.

As if the injury of an intense Wednesday night thunderstorm wasn’t enough, Central Virginians are now suffering the insult of near-record heat.

A tornado damaged property in western Virginia Thursday night and heavy winds, hail and up to three inches of rain howled through Central Virginia into Friday, dropping as much as 2.6 inches of rain and leaving about 1,550 customers without power as of Friday morning.

Storms slam Virginia