Update On Those Weekend Rains: Areas That Needed It Most Got The Most

Weekend rainfall totaled more than 1.5 inches in much
of Vermont

That really was a widespread and soaking rain Vermont got over the weekend. 

Pretty much all of Vermont received at least 1.5 inches of rain, except in the southwest corner of the state and a teeny, tiny sliver of the Connecticut River Valley.  

More than two inches fell in pretty good swaths of mostly northern Vermont, with a few spot three inch totals popping up.  

The heaviest rain seemed to line up nicely in parts of the Green Mountain State that the U.S. Drought Monitor deemed abnormally dry before this storm. 

You can click on the map from the National Weather Service in South Burlington in this post to make it bigger and easier to see.

Very little precipitation is in the forecast for the next week or more. Luckily, at this time of year, moisture doesn't leave the ground very quickly.  The trees are dormant, so they don't draw any water to speak of.  Days are short, the sun angle is low and the skies tend to be cloudy this time of year, so evaporation isn't nearly as big a factor as it would be in the summer.