Wet Vermont Thursday Will Probably Be Chilliest Until September

On a dark, rainy June morning in St. Albans, Vermont,
wisteria begins to bloom.  At least they have enough
water, as we're expecting up to an inch of rain today.

 We in Vermont are experiencing a great indoor day today.  Instead of garden and yard work, or hiking, or playing outside, it's time to maybe straighten up the home office desk. Pay some bills. Tidy up the kitchen. Or just chill with Netflix.  

It's wet and chilly, in case you haven't noticed.

We dealing with a pretty dynamic storm system, at least by June standards.  More often than not, the period from Memorial to Labor Day features hit and miss showers and storms. Some people are winners, others are losers in the rain department. 

This time, everybody is receiving a nice soaking.  Of course some people will have more rain than others. All of us should end the day with at least a half inch of new rain.  Several places, especially in southern Vermont, will see more than an inch of rain.

The heaviest rain will come down this morning and early afternoon.  It won't be enough to cause any real flooding, but there could be some ponding of water on roads, a hydroplaning risk on the Interstates, that sort of thing. 

Even as the rain turns lighter, more showery and spottier this afternoon, clouds will linger.  That'll keep temperatures no higher than the low 60s all day. Except in southern Vermont, where a little evening sun might boost temperatures toward 70 degrees.

Today's highs in northern Vermont will be ten to 15 degrees cooler than normal, but we won't have any record "low" high temperatures.  (Today's record low high in Burlington is 55 degrees, and they were already a bit warmer than that as of this early morning writing).

Still, there's a good chance this afternoon will be the chilliest until sometime in September.

Tomorrow and Saturday look much better with at least some sun and temperatures poking back up into the seasonable 70s.  We'll probably see a few scattered showers here and there both days, but they will be few and far between. 

The overall weather pattern isn't changing quite yet, though, so another period of weather fronts and such will provide more showers Sunday and Monday. I'm not sure yet how much rain we'll get out of that. 

As I said yesterday, the real hot weather will be suppressed to the southern half of the United States for the foreseeable future. Still, though, by the middle of next week, we have signs that we will turn warmer and drier, but not rain-free. 

That suggests we'll have more summer-like weather starting in about a week, but still, nothing torrid.