The Almost No Snow Forecast Stands, But.......(Updated To Include Expanded Winter Weather Advisories)

My driveway in St. Albans, Vermont is pretty much cleaned
up from last Friday's 15.7 inch snowfall. Despite some
hints of flurries and freezing drizzle in the forecast,
I won't have to worry about too much more shoveling
this week with a mostly dry forecast.

UPDATED, 5 p.m. MONDAY

The National Weather Service in South Burlington has expanded the winter weather advisories since this morning.

Those advisories now cover all of Vermont except anything west of the Green Mountains from Addison County north. 

Forecasters are still expecting only light precipitation, but it will come in the form of an ugly light snow and freezing drizzle combination tonight and early tomorrow.

It doesn't take much to ice up the roads, so be careful driving tonight and early tomorrow.

There might be a few snowflakes, or a wee bit of freezing drizzle or freezing fog in northwestern Vermont overnight and early tomorrow.

Though the northwest has no weather advisories, there could still be a few slick spots even there. 

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For days now, I've been saying that after that big dump of snow we had in central and northern parts of Vermont that we'll next go through a long period with little new snow.  

All that is still true, but if you're in parts of southern and eastern Vermont, it turns out you'll deal with a small bout of icky, wintry weather today and tonight. 

Another nor'easter will take a similar track as the one that brought a blizzard to eastern New England a couple weekends ago.  

The difference this time is the one coming by later today is much, much, weaker than the previous, has much less moisture to work with and will be out of out hair soon.

The upshot is this piddling little nor'easter will still shove a little snow and freezing drizzle into southern and eastern Vermont later today and tonight.  These areas will end up with at most an inch or two of snow and a light glaze. Or additional glaze since trees in southern Vermont are still ice covered from the freezing rain Thursday night and Friday morning.

Today's "storm" if you want to call it that, won't add enough additional ice to renew any power outage problem.  But roads will become slick again in southern Vermont, and east of the Green Mountains. That's especially true south of St. Johnsbury. 

It's all enough for the National Weather Service to issue winter weather advisories for southern and eastern Vermont due to the iffy roads that now seem likely. 

Northwestern Vermont might get some flurries or a few particles of freezing drizzle tonight, but nothing wild. 

The forecast for the rest of the week is still the same: Relatively mild and just little bits of snow showers, with possible very light rain showers in the valleys Thursday.