Don Slater WAVY TV

01/26/2026

11/10/2025

Here’s the actual cold front moving out of Portsmouth and into northwestern Chesapeake. It’s not rain that’s being depicted on radar, but dust and dirt. This is from around 10:30, Sunday evening. Look in the comments for wind.

10/28/2025

This morning, 11:47 ET:

Entering the northwest side of the eye and exiting southeast for the 1547Z fix on Cat 5 Hurricane Melissa. Flight by TEAL76, a USAF Reserve Hurricane Hunter crew from the 53d Weather Reconnaissance Squadron

10/28/2025

185 mph.

10/27/2025

As of the Sunday, 8pm advisory from the Hurricane Center, Melissa has 145 mph sustained winds with gusts to 175
mph. The expected path of the storm heads right across Jamaica late Monday night through Tuesday. In addition to the wind and tides, rain could be catastrophic. As much as 40”!

10/12/2025

High tide was at 2pm…this is at 5:40 pm. It’ll be a while…

10/12/2025

Tides across much of the Hampton Roads area have peaked and though still high, should slowly subside in the next few hours. Here are three graphs with the highest tide reached. Sewells Point had expected 6.5’, got 6.15’. Lynnhaven Inlet got close to its expected 6.2’ tide with a maximumof 6.17’ (round it up and you’re there). Yorktown expected 5.8’ and got 5.4’.

05/31/2023

Though public awareness is low, some scientists believe "biochar" is quietly becoming the world's first major carbon removal success story.