Mountains To Stay Snowy As Winter Settles In For Awhile

It's certainly not bright and colorful autumn anymore in 
St. Albans, Vermont. I'd say winter has descended.

 I would say at this point, we're definitely into winter now. 

Yesterday, the temperature stayed at or below freezing all day in most of Vermont, including at my place up in St. Albans. Snow flurries dusted the ground. 

 "Look around, leaves are brown, there's a patch of snow on the ground," goes that song.  Yesterday fit the mood perfectly.  

Although it will turn a wee bit milder on Thanksgiving Day, there's not any really balmy autumn weather on the horizon. The calendar says November, but this being Vermont, it's not fall anymore.

The Green and White Mountains, and the Adirondacks, are due for a decent enough dump of snow over the weekend. Valleys should get dusted, too.  Strong northwest winds on Saturday combined with the cold air will introduce some pretty nippy wind chills.

Temperatures probably won't rise out of the 30s at all most of next week. There will be other dustings of snow during that time.

I'm still a bit impressed by how much snow could end up falling on some of the favored mountains in the northern Green Mountains during the episode of upslope weather later Friday night and Saturday. 

The National Weather Service in South Burlington says there's potential for a foot of snow on some summits, like atop Mount Mansfield and Jay Peak. We'll probably see some of the first winter weather advisories of the season issued for areas like the western slopes of the Green Mountains and the Northeast Kingdom.

All this isn't to say we won't have any mild-ish spells as we head through December and beyond. Every winter has its thaws.  

But if you aren't ready for winter, and many of us aren't, too bad. Deal with it.