"Snoliage" In Parts Of Vermont Saturday; Wind, Rain To Keep Stripping Leave

Not everybody thinks snow is a great thing during foliage season.  

I took this snoliage photo two years ago in St. Albans, 
Vermont, but people throughout much of Vermont's 
Northeast Kingdom and higher elevations had a chance
to get their own "snoliage" photos Saturday morning.

But it is absolutely gorgeous. 

Especially during a fleeting moment when the sun comes out right after the snow. 

Which is what happened in parts of Vermont and New Hampshire Saturday when rain turned to snow in some high elevations, and in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont and northern New Hampshire.

A number of photographers captured that fleeting moment when the sun lit up the snow and the foliage, just before that sun melted the snow. 

I missed this opportunity, since it didn't snow where I live in St. Albans, Vermont. But it was all nice to see on social media.  I'm reluctant to appropriate photos from social media, so go on Twitter or Instagram so search out snow photos from Vermont and New Hampshire from yesterday. 

Most places that got snow didn't receive much.  The reports in Vermont were mostly under two inches. The exceptions were the remote towns of Norton and Averill along the Canadian border in the Northeast Kingdom.  

Those towns received five or six inches of snow, as they shared in the heavier snow that socked northern New Hampshire.

The good news with the the storm, aside from the pretty pictures, is that the heaviest precipitation came down in the eastern half of Vermont and in New Hampshire. The lingering drought there was worse than in places further west, so this will help. 

More than an inch of rain fell in eastern Vermont, with a few places coming in close to two inches of precipitation. Danville, Vermont, for instance, logged 2.14 inches of rain. 

Western Vermont did OK, so that will help any lingering dryness there. Both Burlington, and my unofficial rain gauge in St. Albans, Vermont, collected right around three quarters of an inch of rain 

Though rainfall this month is running above normal, we still need more.  There are frequent chances this coming week, though rainfall isn't expected to be heavy.  Unfortunately, it looks like places east of the Green Mountains will get less than locations further west, but what are you going to do.

There won't be any real chances for more "snoliage" either.  It will be too warm for snow all week. Also the rain and expected gusty winds will strip most of the leaves from trees. We're heading into stick season, folks.