Spring's Pace To Slow Down This Week, But Not Stop

Rain falling from clouds and evaporating before reaching
the ground was partly responsible for a spectacular
sunrise in Vermont this morning. 

We Vermonters are jaded enough with our often cold weather so that once the warmer season arrives, chilly still almost feels nice to us.  

It'll be kind of like that this upcoming week. High temperatures most days won't get out of the 50s. Such high temperatures seem nice enough, but we're far enough into spring that even that is cooler than normal.

Except for possibly tomorrow, highs aren't expected to reach as high as 60 degrees until sometimes after next Sunday. 

Normal afternoon temperatures around this time of year are in the low to mid 60s.  Record highs are in the 80s to around 90. We won't be seeing that anytime soon!

At least nights this week don't look frosty. Cloudiness will help keep low temperatures above the 32 degree danger zone. 

Though we will have almost daily chances of rain, it doesn't look like we'll get a huge amount of it. 

This morning's radar has a bark much worse than its bite.    It appears to show a band of persistent showers riding west to east across New York and Vermont.  The showers are encountering dry air, so some of it is evaporating as it hits the ground (The evaporating rain in the air helped create a gorgeous sunrise this morning).

It looks like some rain will come down tonight and tomorrow morning, the heaviest south. Even there, amounts will only be a quarter inch or so.  Up north, maybe a tenth of an inch.

Another disturbance rolls through Wednesday with perhaps another half inch of rain.  Forecast models indicate some sort of nor'easter Thursday night and Friday.  Most of the forecasts only give us light rain as the storm would be far enough east, and weak enough to not cause much trouble.  A couple models do show a stronger, closer storm, so we'll see.

The weather pattern after that looks active, but not extreme.  Generally cooler than average weather is probably going to last until at least the middle of the month. Not frigid, mind you. Fingers crossed, I think we're past that. 

On the bright side, since we're on the cool side of things, we're avoiding volatile springtime weather further south.  Several tornadoes touched down in Mississippi Sunday, causing widespread damage but thankfully no serious injuries. 

Today, wide areas of the South can expect severe thunderstorms packing destructive wind, large, damaging hail and some tornadoes.