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A tornado watch was issued for Hampton Roads on Monday.

The watch, which covers all of Hampton Roads — reaching up north past Washington, D.C. and extending down to the Outer Banks in North Carolina — is in effect until 7 p.m. Tornadoes are likely in these areas, along with hail up to a quarter size and widespread wind gusts up to 85 mph.

A watch means conditions are conducive to the development of tornadoes. A tornado warning means a tornado has been spotted or indicated by radar.

The commonwealth could see severe thunderstorms capable of producing damaging winds, large hail and strong tornadoes, according to the National Weather Service.

The weather service’s forecast said there remains a substantial risk of severe weather Monday along and ahead of a strong cold front expected to move through the region later in the day. Forecasters say multiple rounds of storms are possible with the potential for widespread damaging winds, strong tornadoes, and large hail. The most likely timing is expected until 8 p.m.

The threat level scale ranges from 1 to 5, beginning as a marginal threat, to slight, to enhanced, to moderate, to high. Much of the middle of the state — including the Williamsburg area — is under a Level 4 threat. Most of Hampton Roads is under a Level 3 threat.

The strongest storms are expected from 6-9 p.m., according to a Monday afternoon update from NWS.

Damaging winds are possible, with gusts possibly exceeding 70-75 mph. The Williamsburg area has the highest chance, 60%, to see the most severe winds. The majority of the region has a 45-59% probability of damaging winds, and further along the coast, from Virginia Beach to the Outer Banks, has a 30-44% chance of damaging winds. Severe hail is also possible.

There is low potential for strong tornadoes with 111-135 mph winds. The most significant tornado threat is through 8 p.m., though some isolated tornadoes may still occur, according to the weather service. There is high confidence in widespread coverage of storms and low confidence in the potential for tornadoes, according to forecasters.

Temperatures will get down to just below freezing in the Hampton Roads region Tuesday night, likely causing a “hard freeze” of any rain left on the ground from Monday.

For marine vessels, small craft advisory conditions are expected beginning Sunday and continuing into early Tuesday. Gale conditions are likely ahead of and immediately behind the cold front Monday, with gale warnings now in effect for the coastal waters and Chesapeake Bay. Severe thunderstorms could produce wind gusts between 40 and 50 knots.

As of 8 p.m. Monday, storms continue to move through the region and the Peninsula will see storm threats until 11 p.m., according to the weather service. There is no confirmed damage yet.

Mold Removal Hampton releases mold prevention checklist for Hampton Roads homeowners addressing regional moisture challenges. The resource targets areas where summer humidity exceeds 70 percent, offering structured vulnerability assessment and protective measures.

Hampton, United States, March 14, 2026 -- Hampton Roads homeowners now have access to a mold prevention checklist designed to address the region's persistent moisture challenges. Average summer humidity levels frequently exceed 70 percent, creating conditions conducive to microbial growth. Mold Removal Hampton developed the resource in response to documented climate patterns that place local homes at elevated risk, offering residents a structured approach to identifying vulnerabilities and implementing protective measures before costly damage occurs.

More details can be found at https://moldremovalhampton.com/mold-prevention-checklist

The stakes extend beyond property damage. Mold exposure contributes to an estimated 4.6 million asthma cases annually across the United States, according to health statistics. Research shows that removing mold from indoor environments can reduce asthma symptoms by 25 to 45 percent, underscoring the respiratory health implications for families living in moisture-prone areas where spores thrive in warm, humid conditions.

Environmental health guidelines recommend maintaining indoor relative humidity between 30 and 50 percent, consistently below 60 percent, to prevent mold spores from activating and colonizing surfaces. Hampton Roads homes face particular difficulty meeting these thresholds when regional humidity overwhelms inadequately sealed structures, especially during summer months when temperatures rise above 65 degrees Fahrenheit and outdoor moisture infiltrates living spaces through gaps, poor ventilation, and compromised building envelopes.

The checklist addresses four critical areas: detecting excess moisture indicators such as musty odors, visible growth, condensation, and water stains; controlling indoor moisture sources through lifestyle adjustments, appliance maintenance, and leak repair; eliminating water infiltration via vapor barriers, proper drainage systems, and gutter maintenance; and removing existing moisture using ventilation, dehumidifiers, and targeted cleaning. This framework provides homeowners with a systematic method for assessing vulnerabilities while prioritizing interventions based on the specific conditions affecting their properties.

Common moisture problems in Hampton Roads homes include poor ventilation that traps humid air indoors, leaky pipes that introduce water into wall cavities and subfloor areas, high regional humidity that penetrates poorly sealed structures, and damp basements or crawl spaces where standing water and inadequate airflow create persistent dampness. The checklist guides residents through inspecting drainage systems, installing vapor barriers over exposed soil in crawl spaces, maintaining gutters and downspouts to direct water away from foundations, and ensuring adequate ventilation in bathrooms, kitchens, and laundry areas where moisture generation is highest.

Virginia law, effective July 1, 2024, requires contractors offering mold remediation services for residential properties to hold certification from the Institute of Inspection, Cleaning and Restoration Certification (IICRC). The legislation amended the Virginia Consumer Protection Act, making it unlawful to advertise or sell professional mold remediation services for residential dwellings without this recognized industry credential. Certified specialists typically follow established remediation standards that include detailed inspection, containment of affected areas, air filtration, and the safe removal of contaminated materials to reduce the risk of recurring mold growth.

The checklist complements these professional services by equipping homeowners with preventive strategies aligned with industry best practices.

For more information, visit https://moldremovalhampton.com/

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The economic news lately has not been good, and that was before oil traffic through the Strait of Hormuz was essentially shut down.

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics recently reported that the American economy unexpectedly lost 92,000 jobs in February. Furthermore, December’s job report was revised to show 17,000 jobs lost.

This is not exactly winning.

Some of the steepest job losses have come in manufacturing, a favorite metric of President Donald Trump. Since he became president, the nation has lost 100,000 manufacturing jobs, although that’s an incomplete measure. Manufacturing jobs have been declining steadily for years. Since the Great Recession of 2008-2009, manufacturing jobs rebounded slightly and reached their peak under President Joe Biden in January 2023, and have been falling ever since. The total decline since then has been 430,000 jobs, so most of that decline happened under Biden, and before Trump’s tariffs, although Trump’s policies certainly haven’t turned that around. Those trendlines suggest the forces pushing manufacturing jobs down might be bigger than any president — automation being a prime factor.

Gov. Abigail Spanberger was concerned enough about the national numbers that she issued a statement noting that the “job numbers are a reminder that economic uncertainty is not going away any time soon.”

All that is the backdrop to two new economic reports that have come out recently, and have specific applications to Virginia. One is the quarterly economic forecast from the University of Virginia’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service; the other is a report from the Brookings Institution that looks specifically at the Washington-area economy, which is important to Virginia because Northern Virginia is the state’s largest regional economy. Neither brings good news.

Let’s start with the Weldon Cooper Center report, since it’s broader.

In October, the center forecast that Virginia’s economy, which had grown by 3.3% in 2023 but has been slowing down since, would grow by just 1.0% in 2026.

The center has now revised that downward to 0.3%.

In October, the center forecast that Virginia employment, which was flat at the time, would edge up ever so slightly to 0.1% in 2026.

Now the center forecasts that employment this year will shrink by 0.2%.

The center attributes much of this slowdown to federal job cuts, which hit hardest in Northern Virginia.

“This period is expected to represent the weakest point of the current economic cycle for Virginia,” the forecast says. “Although inflation is projected to remain moderate and population growth stable, these factors are not expected to offset the broader deceleration in output and labor market conditions.”

If there’s good news, it’s that the state’s economy is forecast to grow a little faster in 2027, although the center has revised downward what that growth rate next year will be — from 1.9% to 1.6%.

Forecasts can always change, though, so let’s look at what has actually happened.

Historically speaking, that’s an astonishing sentence to write. For generations, Northern Virginia has been what’s held up the state’s economy. Now, Northern Virginia is where a lot of the problems are. We saw this indirectly in the recent population estimates that showed Fairfax County losing population from 2020 to 2025. If that continues for the rest of the decade, it would be the first time Fairfax has lost population since the 1820s.

We see this indirectly again in the job statistics (we’ll see it even more directly in an upcoming section, which is what gives me confidence that a lot of the stats you’re about to see originate in Northern Virginia).

Out of 18 official job categories, Virginia lost jobs in nine of them last year. Four of those categories dominated:

Professional service: -11,400Government: -9,400Manufacturing: -6,600Accommodation and food services: -6,000

The Weldon Cooper report says the government job cuts “occurred more gradually” than many expected. “This allowed the labor market to stabilize temporarily before entering the weaker conditions projected for the end of 2025, delaying the economy’s recovery to late 2026,” the report says.

However, many of those professional service jobs are likely to be government contractors, who count in a separate category. Still, between professional service jobs and government jobs, that’s 28,800 well-paying jobs gone from the state economy.

The health care sector in Virginia added 16,000 jobs last year — and yet a recent report out of Southside, which documented the number of unfilled health care jobs there, showed that’s still not enough. That report for GO Virginia Region 3 by Chmura Economics & Analytics found there are 3,400 health care jobs going unfilled in the part of Southside that runs from Patrick County to Brunswick County.

The sector that’s added the second biggest number of jobs is construction — 8,000 jobs. On a percentage basis, construction is the fastest-growing, at 3.7%. “Construction remains one of the more resilient industries in the Commonwealth,” the Weldon Cooper report says. However, it warns: “As much of this construction is directly associated with data centers, the question remains: Will the growth in data centers in Virginia continue in future years?”

That question factors into one of the key issues now pending before the General Assembly: How much should the legislature try to slow down data center growth? And if the current tax incentive for data centers is done away with, as the Senate version of the budget wants to do, what impact would that have on the state’s economy?

The Federal Reserve says there are 224,900 construction jobs in Virginia. The Northern Virginia Technology Council estimates the number of data center-related construction jobs at 14,240, so that’s 6.3% of the construction industry that’s tied to data centers.

Weldon Cooper forecasts that in 2026, Virginia will continue to lose government jobs, but at a slower rate — from 9,400 last year to 3,400 this year.

It also sees the loss of manufacturing jobs and travel-related jobs in accommodation and food services, likewise continuing, but at a slower pace.

Manufacturing is forecast to go from 6,600 job losses to 4,600 job losses; travel-related jobs from 6,000 to 4,900.

Spanberger’s office recently announced new manufacturing jobs in Pittsylvania County (1,500 jobs for a rocket manufacturer), Henry County (60 jobs for a car parts manufacturer) and Giles County (46 jobs for a trailer manufacturer). Those localities should appreciate anew the acquisition of manufacturing jobs when manufacturing jobs overall are declining, both in the state and nationally.

Brookings has been tracking what the loss of government jobs has been for the D.C. area (which encompasses the whole D.C. metro, not just Northern Virginia). The Northern Virginia side of that is important to those of us in Southwest and Southside because most of our school money comes from the state, and the biggest share of that comes from … Northern Virginia. Unless you want your property taxes to go up to pay for your local schools, you should care about what happens to the Northern Virginia economy because it directly connects to ours — and your wallet.

Brookings says the D.C. metro’s employment base shrank 14% in 2025, with most of that coming later in the year when deferred departures from the federal workforce started showing up in the statistics. “In total, the [D.C.] region ended 2025 with around 56,000 fewer jobs than it had a year prior, with about 54,000 of these jobs (96%) stemming directly from federal layoffs,” Brookings says.

Now for the kicker: Brookings looked at every U.S. metro area with a population of 1 million or more — 55 in all.

Of those, the D.C. metro lost more jobs, on a percentage basis, than any other last year — down 1.7%. Not all of those were on the Virginia side, but enough were that Virginians throughout the state ought to be concerned for the reasons noted above.

That’s not all: The metro that lost the second-biggest number of jobs, on a percentage basis, was also in Virginia — Hampton Roads was down 1.4%.

That means Virginia’s two biggest regional economies lost jobs last year. That’s why the Weldon Cooper Center forecast for next year is so pessimistic.

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Strong storms possible Monday afternoon and evening in Hampton Roads. Damaging wind gusts are the main threat as a cold front moves through.

NORFOLK, Va. — A Weather Impact Alert has been issued for Hampton Roads on Monday, March 16th, as a strong cold front moves through the region, bringing the threat for strong to severe thunderstorms during the afternoon and evening hours.

Monday will start off mild and breezy with temperatures climbing into the lower 70s, but conditions will quickly become more unsettled as the day progresses. A powerful cold front approaching from the west will trigger a line of showers and thunderstorms that will sweep across the region later in the day.

The Storm Prediction Center has placed Hampton Roads under a Level 3 “Enhanced Risk” for severe weather, meaning scattered to numerous severe storms will be possible across the region.

At this point, the primary threat appears to be damaging wind gusts, which could exceed 50 to 70 mph in the strongest storms. These winds could bring down tree limbs, cause isolated power outages, and create hazardous travel conditions during the evening commute.

Heavy downpours and frequent lightning will also accompany the storms. While the risk is lower, an isolated tornado cannot be completely ruled out given the strength of the system moving through the Mid-Atlantic.

Timing will be important. The greatest chance for strong to severe storms in Hampton Roads appears to be from mid-afternoon through the evening hours Monday, as the cold front crosses the region.

Behind the front, much cooler air quickly pours into the area. Temperatures that reach the low 70s Monday afternoon will fall sharply Monday night, with highs only reaching the upper 40s to near 50 degrees by Tuesday.

Hazardous conditions remain in the Eastern Shore portion of the VDOT Hampton Roads District

HAMPTON ROADS — While Peninsula, Southside and western Hampton Roads areas appear to have been spared the brunt of the current winter storm, the Virginia Eastern Shore region continues to dig out from heavy snow, numerous downed trees and contend with blustery conditions overnight into Monday morning. Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) crews remain active on 12-hour shifts during 24/7 District-wide operations, treating and plowing roadways as needed.

Eastern Shore primary and secondary roadways are in severe condition. As of early this morning, field reports note that portions of northern Accomack County have received as much as 10-12 inches of snow, while Northampton County has been impacted by approximately 5 inches of snow. Prior to the storm, supplemental forces were brought into Hampton Roads to help with snow operations on the Eastern Shore.

Severe conditions mean there is a significant accumulation of snow partially covering roadways, which are considered hazardous. Motorists should stay off roadways while crews are working on plowing and treatment operations. Additionally, gusty winds remain impactful with downed trees and power lines, along with drifting snow in many locations affecting visibility.

Interstates, primary and secondary roadways on the Southside, western portion of Hampton Roads, and the Peninsula, including the Historic Triangle, are reporting as clear. Crews are continuing to monitor roadways and address slick roadway conditions.

Motorists should reduce speed, increase following distance, and use caution as remaining moisture on the roadways could present icy conditions with temperatures remaining close to freezing.

Before traveling, check roadway conditions along your entire route using VDOT’s free 511 mobile app, visiting 511.vdot.virginia.gov or calling 511 while in Virginia.

VDOT prioritizes state-maintained roads carrying the most traffic for treatment and snow removal. Crews focus first on interstates and limited-access highways, followed by primary routes and major secondary roads with high traffic volumes or vital emergency facilities, followed by low-volume secondary roads and subdivision streets, as resources allow.

VDOT maintains all interstates, major state-maintained primary routes and county roads in Hampton Roads. Individual municipalities maintain their own primary and secondary roadways.

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