Kevin Myatt

So quickly, cool-season catchwords like cold-air damming, overrunning moisture and even a nor'easter are part of our regional weather scene that hadn't previously been willing to let summer go.

An El Niño-charged weather pattern washed away an extreme Virginia drought in three months 24 years ago.

The first couple days of October brought some infrequent 90-degree highs to some locations in Southwest and Southside Virginia, but cooler weather has set in since then.

The Atlantic tropical season’s latest first hurricane of the satellite era is expected to strike the Gulf Coast near where Alabama and the Florida Panhandle meet.

Remnants of Hurricane Isaias brought widespread rainfall to soak dry ground and raise reservoir levels this past weekend, but there isn't a followup rainy system in the pipeline.

One spent the summer updating policies and rebuilding an internal website in Richmond. Another led focus groups on maternal and child healthcare in the Shenandoah Valley.

Virginia Tech researchers found that Toxoplasma gondii can't reproduce without a protein that has no counterpart in human cells.

What may be the strongest El Niño on record looms over the winter ahead, but that could go to either extreme.

A protein discovered in a Virginia Tech–led study may open a gateway to treatments for a parasite responsible for a deadly disease in immunocompromised people. The team led by Raj Gaji, assistant professor of parasitology at the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine working in the Center for One Health Research, identified a protein the team named DDP that helps Toxoplasma gondii build its offspring. When researchers switched it off, the parasites stopped multiplying entirely.

October ends with a dry spell, cool mornings and warm afternoons. November shows signs of being wetter, with maybe a hint of a cold spell toward Thanksgiving.