Mostly sunny, 84°F, west wind at three miles per hour — this is the Sunday the forecast kept promising and pulling back. No storms building this afternoon, no radar to check before you leave. Just clean light, comfortable heat, and air that doesn't press. By tonight there's a slight chance of a shower before one, maybe some patchy fog after, but the day itself holds steady. Tomorrow climbs to 86° with morning fog, then clears again before rain chances return Monday night.
The Taubman's open noon to five today — the current exhibitions are Rodin in Bronze and the permanent American collection on the second floor. It's a twenty-minute walk, all of it shaded past Center in the Square and up the hill toward Elmwood Park. Mill Mountain Theatre's dark tonight, but next weekend brings the opening of Bright Star. If you're planning dinner downtown, Lucky and Alexander's both take walk-ins before six — after that it's a wait or a reservation you should've made Thursday.
The Roanoke River Greenway runs east from Wasena Park, five minutes south of here — flat, paved, shaded in long stretches, and empty on Sunday afternoons when everyone else is inside watching something. The full route is over thirteen miles one way, but the first three-mile section to Green Hill Park and back is the move today: easy grade, river on your left, enough breeze to make 84° feel like seventy-eight. Mill Mountain's an option if you want elevation — the drive up is ten minutes, the summit's got the star and the overlook, and the zoo's open until five if you're traveling with someone under ten.
Monday morning starts with fog before seven, then clears to mostly sunny and 86°F. By evening the storms come back — fifty percent chance after eight, possibly a quarter inch. If you're planning anything outside tomorrow, do it before four.
The flats' courtyard caught full sun this afternoon, and the main-floor patio at A Few Old Goats Brewing stayed busy from two onward — people working through the tap list, playing cards, not in any hurry. Tonight's quiet here, no live music, just the hum of a Sunday that doesn't need to perform. If you've been inside all weekend, this is the evening to fix that.