Heavy Rain Band Mostly Misses Vermont In This Goldilocks Summer

So far this summer, we've barely had to water the flowers
in St. Albans, Vermont. Relatively light but
consistent rains have been doing the work for us.

 As expected, a narrow north to south oriented , heavy rain band set up over northern New York and western  Quebec overnight, dumping one to locally as much as three inches of rain. 

One confirmed report was 1.77 inches of rain in Ile Perrot, Quebec, west of Montreal, bringing the month's total there to six inches. 

There might be some spot flooding here and there in the mountains of northern New York or southwestern Quebec,   but so far, we have no reports of anything wild.  I'm just impressed by how well this was forecast. 

 It was a tricky one, but the National Weather Service office in South Burlington and all the local meteorologists around here got this one right. Both in the location of the rain and how much fell. 

Further to the south and west in the humid air yesterday, severe thunderstorms struck from western New York southward into Virginia. Some of the storms in Virginia were especially fierce, causing damage to a number of homes and businesses and felling thousands of trees. 

Here in Vermont, we're continuing to experience a Goldilocks kind of summer, a couple of cold, windy days last weekend notwithstanding.  Most of the time over the past few weeks, we've seen no real temperature extremes and no real super wet or super dry spells.  Not too hot, not too cold, not too dry, not too wet. We haven't had much in the way of severe storms, either. 

That's a departure from most recent Junes, which featured torrid, record-breaking heat waves and drought. 

This Goldilocks trend looks like it will continue. That rain band in New York was slowly moving into Vermont early this morning.  It was raining at a good clip in St. Albans as of 7 a.m., but the sun was shining over eastern Vermont.

The rain band will slowly weaken as it grudgingly moves further into the Green Mountain State.     The northwestern corner of Vermont will see the most rain, perhaps up to a half inch. By the time what's left of this reaches central and eastern Vermont, it will only drop a tenth of an inch or so of rain. No biggie.

Today will be the sixth and last day in a row with cool temperatures in Vermont. The clouds today will hold temperatures down in the 60s to around 70.

Channeling our inner Annie, the sun will come out tomorrow, giving us a fine summer day with readings up near 80 degrees. It will actually turn kind of hot over the weekend with 80s on Saturday and some places nearing 90 degrees Sunday. 

Burlington has a shot at reaching 90 degrees Sunday for the first time this year. For comparison's sake, it had already been at least 90 degrees five times by this date last year and nine times in 2020. So yeah, we've caught a break so far this summer.

A cold front Sunday night will return us to cooler, comfortable weather early next week.  The front won't bring any excessive rains or severe thunderstorms. Instead we'll just get a quick drink of water for the gardens.

Extended forecasts continue with the Goldilocks theme. At this point, it looks like we'll continue to have near normal temperatures and rainfall through the first week of July.