Vermont Snow Continued In Spots Overnight; Snow Pretty Much Over Chill Isn't

Still some dustings of snow in my St. Albans, Vermont 
gardens this morning.

Judging from webcams this morning, it looks like there was a pretty widespread one to two inches of snow overnight in northern Vermont, at least at elevations above about 1,500 feet. 

Some high elevation roads, like Route 17 in Buels Gore and Route 242 in Westfield, actually looked a bit icy early this morning, so be careful if driving up in the northern Green Mountains early today.

The summit of Mount Mansfield looks like they had about four inches of new snow by late Wednesday afternoon, so I bet the highest peaks of the Green Mountains clocked in with a good six inches or more of snow out of this. 

Lowlands look almost snow-free, but there's still a dusting of snow on the ground outside my window in St. Albans. Places like Williston and Waterbury also received a fresh dusting of late April snow. As of 6 a.m. it was still snowing a little in places like Montpelier and Morrisville. Temperatures region-wide were near or a little below freezing. Brrr! 

This kind of snow is certainly not unheard of this late in April, it is kind of late for the low elevations to receive any snow. Nowhere near a record, but still -- late.

The good news is that snow showers in the hills should wrap up pretty quickly this morning.  The bad-ish news is it will still be windy and chilly around here for the next couple of days. 

From my northwestern Vermont perch in St. Albans, I could see a sharp line between overcast and clear skies well off to my northwest as of 6:30 this morning. 

That clearing line will probably advance toward and likely into Vermont today. However, that lingering storm that brought the snow to us is still sitting and spinning to our east.  That will give us a day of haves and have nots in Vermont. 

Vermont Agency of Transportation webcam showed 
a trucker dealing with an unseasonably slick 
Route 242 in Westfield, Vermont early this morning.

Somewhere, probably over or near Vermont, that clearing line will stall. Places to the west of that line will have a bright, sunny, but windy and chilly afternoon, but the sun will make things feel less bad. Places to the east will be stuck under clouds, and be even cooler, but still windy. 

I'm not sure where that sunny to cloudy border will end up, but places west of the Green Mountains, and in the southern Connecticut River Valley will have the best chance at sunshine. 

At this point, it looks like the stuck storm to our east will throw some extra clouds our way tomorrow, so we'll call Friday variably cloudy.  On Saturday, that storm will start to grudgingly pull away to the east, which would give us some more sunshine, but still a stiff north wind and temperatures about 10 degrees on the chilly side of normal.

We're still looking toward Sunday to firmly break back out into full fledged spring weather.