New England/North Country June Cold Snap Set Records, Created Snow

Looking just a bit wintry at the summit of Mount
Washington, New Hampshire Saturday with snow
and ice. The Observatory there is calling this
weekend's weather "Juneuary"

 That weird June cold snap we're experiencing is behaving just as expected, having kept us shivering Saturday and likely to leave us unable to keep our hats on today, a windy Sunday. 

Burlington, Vermont's "high" temperature yesterday was 55 degrees, setting a record for the coldest high temperature on record for the date. The old record was 56 degrees in 1959. 

Plattsburgh, New York also set a record Saturday for coldest high temperature for the date, with a reading of 57 degrees.

 Low temperature records still happen from time to time, of course, but they've become more rare with climate change. 

Most of the time, if we set a record, it's for warmth,  not cold.  No record highs are in our immediate future.

Yesterday's high temperature in Burlington was three degrees colder than the normal low temperature for the date.

But at least the coldest weather in Vermont has passed, except for some towns overnight tonight. More on that in a moment. 

Mount Washington, New Hampshire, recorded 1.3 inches of snow and sleet Saturday. But most of the time Saturday up there on New England's highest peak, they were getting freezing rain.  It must be so slick and dangerous up there this morning. It was still 27 degrees at the Mount Washington summit as I wrote this at around 7 a.m. Sunday.

We also saw video of snowflakes atop Whiteface Mountain, New York, elevation 4,867 feet or so.

I don't think we managed to receive any snow in Vermont Saturday, unless the summit of Jay Peak saw a flake or two. (Jay Peak was a bit closer to the core of the cold air Saturday).   

It looks like the summit of Mount Mansfield was just a little too warm for snow.  Temperatures there hovered near 40 degrees Saturday.

If this were a colder season, you would have really seen some deep mountain snows, as the upslope winds on the west side of the Greens really cranked out the moisture. Mount Mansfield had an inch of rain Saturday.

Valleys received very little. Burlington logged in with a quarter inch of rain. Most valley areas outside the northern Champlain Valley and away from the western slopes only managed a tenth of an inch or so.

Lots of people grumbled about this weekend's unseasonable chill. But this blog is all about me, me, Me !!!  I got lucky. I have a project this weekend that involves lots and lots of physical labor.  I wilt in hot weather, so this cool weekend was a blessing. I embraced it.  

The coldest weather today will be east and north of us. Caribou, Maine, is expected a "balmy" high temperature of 48 degrees today, which like in Burlington yesterday, is colder than the normal low for the date. 

We'll have more sun today, especially west of the Green Mountains. The sun's heat will allow cool air aloft to mixed down, which will produce gusty winds.  Lots of us will see gusts to 35 mph or so today. 

Winds will die down tonight, which will allow it to get pretty chilly.  I imagine the coldest hollows of the Northeast Kingdom and Adirondacks could see some patchy frost. The vast majority of us will go down into the 40s. 

While the first half of the week will be cooler than normal, it won't be that odd for June.

The next big weather question mark is on Tuesday. A warm front will approach us, but stall either over western Vermont or New York. Disturbances will blast north to south along this warm front. 

It is just about impossible to tell at this point where they'll blast through, and exactly when.  There's a chance that somebody around Vermont or eastern New York could see some locally heavy rain. But the forecast is so tricky that nobody knows if that heavy rain will get going and if so, where. 

Stay tuned, I guess.

The second half of the week will bring us back to the regularly scheduled normal June programming