Temperatures dropped like a rock last night in Vermont and surrounding areas, even more than some forecasts anticipated.
Everyone in Vermont had a frost and/or freeze except for places right along Champlain Valley and some of the urban cores, like Burlington.
Some of these temperatures were ridiculous. Island Pond reached at least 23 degrees. Saranac Lake, New York got down to 21 degrees. Saranac Lake is a notorious cold spot, but here's a bit of perspective: There were nine mornings last January in that Adirondacks town that were actually warmer this morning.
Montpelier reached 28 degrees, breaking a record low for the date by one degree.
Editor's Note: Because new Blogger is extremely glitchy and bad, and they're not interested in fixing anything, we are apparently no longer allowed to caption photos. Photo in this post is my truck windshield, very definitely iced in this Saturday morning.
We've got two more nights of this to go, so this is an odd one. Usually, a freeze this time of year hits on one night and it's gone.
A few clouds tonight could make Sunday morning's lows a tiny bit warmer than this morning, but still, most of us will get another frost and freeze. Monday morning looks as if it will be as cold as this morning, so yeah, gardens are doomed.
It will finally warm up next week to readings that are more or less near normal.
The dry weather will continue, too, unfortunately. We'll get little to no rain for at least the next week. Expect the drought to worsen
TROPICS ARE ZOOMING!
Yesterday was probably among the busiest on record for new tropical storms. In the course of just one afternoon, we had new tropical storms Wilfred, Alpha and Beta.
We've already run out of letters for names, so we've moved on to Greek letters. This is only the second time on record this has happened. The last time, in 2005, we didn't have to move on to Greek letters until the third week in October.
The only big threat among these three new characters is Beta. It was the third tropical storm to form on Saturday, and it is threatening the Gulf Coast with potentially drenching rains.
Beta is going to be one of those dreaded slow movers. It'll sit in basically the same region in the western Gulf of Mexico for a few days. It might become a hurricane later by Sunday afternoon as it slowly presses toward the central Texas coast
Once it gets to a point near that coast, chances are it will reverse course and move eastward across the northern Gulf of Mexico. This is all uncertain at this point, so everybody along the Gulf Coast ought to watch this one. As if they needed another tropical storm or hurricane this year.
Elsewhere, Subtropical Storm Alpha formed just off the coast of Portugal Saturday. That's a VERY weird place for any kind of tropical storm to form. I've never seen anything like it. It moved inland into Portugal during the day, causing some damaging winds, flooding and a couple tornadoes.
Tropical Storm Wilfred also formed in the eastern Atlantic Ocean Saturday. The National Hurricane Center is calling it "Woeful Wilfred" because it's weak, disorganized, and expected to dissipate in the next few days.
Meanwhile, Hurricane Teddy is going to buffet Bermuda before smashing into Nova Scotia while transitioning to a non-tropical storm.
Teddy will create big waves over the western Atlantic Ocean. Between the storm itself, stiff northeasterly winds on the back side of the storm along the East Coast, and the timing with unusually high astronomical tides, coastal flooding, beach erosion and scary rip currents are likely all up and down the East Coast.
As far south as Charleston, South Carolina, this weather situation will cause some substantial tidal flooding.
Then there's the ghost of Paulette. That's the hurricane that smacked Bermuda before heading up into the North Atlantic and dying.
Now, the remnants of Paulette are heading south again and could spin up as a new tropical storm somewhere south of the Azores.
This is one bizarre hurricane season. It's so 2020, isn't it?
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