CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Although West Virginia started the year abnormally wet, ironically it’s been the driest August and September for some parts of the Mountain State in history.

“It was a wet end to the winter, spring was fairly wet, and we began wet in the early part of the summer. July was top 5 or top 10 wettest July’s on record for many of our climate sites. But once we got out of July it was like the spigot turned off,” said Nick Webb, Meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Charleston.

The dry pattern has persisted and came with a shift in air flow out of the north which cooled things off considerably, but it also cut off moisture from the Gulf of America to our region. Webb added there really hasn’t been any tropical storm remnants from a hurricane which is typically anot

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