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A storm system last Wednesday night brought both rain and power outages to Rockbridge County.
According to the National Weather Service, Lexington received .8 inches of rain, while Buena Vista received .7 inches.
Rockbridge County is one of 95 cities and counties in the state in which the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality declared a drought watch advisory on June 24.
Tom Stanley, Virginia Cooperative Extension agent for Rockbridge County, explained that the rain last week had no discernable effect on drought conditions.
“With the heat this time of year, we would need more than that,” he said. “We would need it to settle in, a steady rain, a few inches over a few days.”
High winds accompanying the storm left over 100 households in the county without power. At 11 a.m. on Thursday, June 27, BARC Energy Cooperative reported 102 customers without power, while Dominion Electric reported none.
Kevin Moore, deputy chief of Rockbridge Fire and Rescue, said that the fire departments did not have any calls to respond to downed trees from the storm. A number of downed tree branches could be seen, however, in the northern part of the county.
While temperatures and humidity were lower Monday and Tuesday of this week, higher temperatures, along with a chance of storms, return to the forecast for the rest of the week.
