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| Rainy storm clouds gather over St. Albans, Vermont on Saturday. More rains are expected tomorrow, and we have several more chances of drought-busting rains after that through the month. |
Rain and gloomy skies can be depressing in this rapidly darkening time of year, but we still need it. If current forecasts hold, we're in for another decent installment of precipitation.
A cold front approaching from the west is likely to scoop up some remaining moisture from once-Hurricane Delta.
If everything works out right, that would mean a period of drenching rains Tuesday. It might not be torrential downpours, but several hours of steady rain would help.
It looks like between a half inch and an inch of rain could come down with this one. Even better: The heaviest rain looks like it will go through eastern Vermont, which is more in drought than western zones.
The rather heavy rain will extend through New Hampshire and Maine, and southern New England. That's great, because the current drought there is generally worse than in Vermont.
We have sort of lucked out with rain since September 30, when we got the first real soaking rain in at least a month. And so far, October in Vermont is more or less running near normal in terms of rainfall.
Autumn rains like this are great for erasing droughts, and I hope the stream of mid-sized rains continue. Trees have gone or are going dormant now, so they won't be sucking up any groundwater to maintain photosynthesis in the leaves. Because um, there will soon be no leaves.
There is also a decent chance we could get another round of rain Thursday night or Friday.
I don't really trust long range forecasts, but just for laughs and giggles, I did check out some of them. Those forecasts hint at greater than average chances of above normal precipitation through the next two weeks.
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