Indian Summer Strikes, Not That Anyone's Complaining

A beautiful late afternoon autumn sky Friday over St. Albans,
Vermont. Yesterday marked the start of Indian Summer 
type weather in Vermont that could last a week. 

 Yesterday in Vermont was gorgeous and today will be gorgeous-er  as Indian Summer comes to the region. 

Starting today, each of the next seven days at least are likely to reach 60 degrees or more.  We might even have one or two days that flirt with or touch 70 degrees in this spell of weather. It's quite unusual (but not unheard of) to get that long a stretch of such continuous warm weather this late into the autumn.

This will be what I call a "dirty" Indian Summer in that it won't be wall to wall sunshine. During this upcoming spell of fine weather, there will also be the occasional cloudiness, and even a little rain here and there. 

Today will feature a lot of sunshine as temperatures top out into the mid 60s. Sunday will be almost as nice, but high clouds will filter in, and thicken and lower some in the afternoon. A relatively weak but wet coastal storm will be responsible for those clouds.

Showers and periods of rain should come into at least parts of Vermont Sunday night and part of Monday.  Forecasters aren't entirely sure how far north and west the rain will come, but there's a fairly decent chance of at least a few light showers in northwestern Vermont. It'll almost definitely rain in southeastern Vermont. 

The storm's heavy rain should stay in southern and eastern New England. 

The storm clears out Monday and we go back to the sunshine and warmth into mid week. The warmest stretch at this point looks like it might be Tuesday and Wednesday, when we have the best shot of seeing a late breaking 70 degree afternoon or two.

Another front comes into play probably later Wednesday or Thursday. We don't know how much rain this will bring, but early bets are not much.  It'll turn cooler by Friday, but with highs then forecast to be near 60 degrees, that's still a little above normal. 

This stretch of pleasant weather is part of a flip in the weather pattern.  As you read in this here blog thingy earlier this week, widespread record low temperatures hit the Midwest and South, causing killing frosts as far south as northern Florida. 

These same areas that had got the cold air are not being enveloped by nice, toasty air. Some areas that saw record low temperatures will see a smattering of record highs over the next few days. A for instance is Omaha, Nebraska, which reached 16 degrees Tuesday morning. By tomorrow, the forecast high temperature there is 88 degrees.

We see some uncertain signs that this warmth in Vermont might last awhile. Long range forecasts keep our area warm into the first week of November, though the mild weather might be interrupted by a cold shot or two thrown in.