Vermont Ski Areas MIGHT Get A Nice Weekend Boost

There's potential, anyway, for the Green Mountains, especially
in northern Vermont to pick up some decent snows this weekend
There might also be a little in the valleys, stay tuned! 

As previously advertised, the weather in Vermont - and most of the rest of the nation - is staying quiet in the run up to Thanksgiving Day. 

There are signs showing up, though, that there might be some interesting weather in the Green Mountain State Friday and into the weekend. 

Don't get too excited. There's nothing that wild coming.  But it the forecast holds, some of the ski areas and the mountains in general could be in for a decent dump of snow. 

Again, if things play out as things appear now, this could be a classic upslope snow event. That's when cold, damp northwest winds are forced to rise up and over the Green Mountains.  When this kind of thing persists, the snow can really pile up along the spine of the Green Mountains, and in some high elevations of the Northeast Kingdom.

It's too early for specific snow forecasts, but many mountain areas have the potential to pick up more than six inches of snow.  Since Vermont's ski resorts typically really start to ramp up for the season on Thanksgiving weekend, this is good news.

Of course, resorts that cater to downhill skiing and snowboarding rely more on making snow, especially in the early season, and I know the snow guns are cranking in today's subfreezing air. If this snow does materialize, it will just be icing on the cake. 

These upslope patterns usually bring little or no snow to the Champlain Valley, the deeper valleys of southwest Vermont and the lower Connecticut Valley, and that will probably be the case here.

The initial cold front seems like it will give us a rain changing to snow scenario in many valleys, including the Champlain Valley. It's a little soon to say when the changeover might happen and how much snow will result. 

We'll have to watch the potential for some light accumulation and slippery driving conditions.  Even in the valleys. The National Weather Service in South Burlington is wisely not getting specific with expected accumulations yet. Way too soon to get into that. 

Snowy roads will be almost a certainty in high elevations Friday night and Saturday. We'll update with specifics when we get closer.  We still have a lot of room for forecasts to change between now and Friday. 

In any event, Saturday looks cold and windy and cloudy and raw.  The northern Green Mountains have the potential - just the potential at this point - to be a winter wonderland by then.