Active Weather Week Coming To Vermont (Spoiler: Not Very White, Though)

A rare sight in northern Vermont in late November. Clear
 skies and relatively warm temperatures graced my 
St. Albans, Vermont  yard Saturday afternoon.  This
didn't last long. Cloudy, stormy week coming.

 As I've said before November and December are the cloudiest times of year in Vermont. Late November and early December tends to bring us peak cloudiness.  

So, it was a treat Saturday when skies cleared, and we enjoyed a mild, bright day for a change. 

Don't get used to it. We're back in the clouds for the foreseeable future. And it will be kind of stormy, too.

The first storm to come through is later today. Some of us will see glimpses of sun this morning, but it will soon be solidly overcast.  From mid to late afternoon and well into the evening, we'll get a decent shot of rain. 

Today's rain won't be extreme, ranging from a third of an inch to two thirds of an inch or most of us. Far southern Vermont might end up closer to an inch or rain. 

The rain surely will disappoint early season skiers and riders. But it is only November. This storm will end in mountain snow showers later tonight and tomorrow, so there's that. 

Tuesday will be quiet and seasonable, and we might actually get a little more sun to enjoy. That, too, will be short lived.

It'll get quite stormy for the middle of the week. A strong storm and cold front will march across the middle of the nation.  Chances are rising for a potential outbreak of tornadoes, some possibly quite strong, in or near the lower Mississippi Valley on Tuesday. 

For us, no tornadoes, but this storm will scoop quite a bit of moisture up from the Gulf of Mexico, so we could see quite a bit of rain out of this.

And wind. Strong south winds seem likely Wednesday as temperatures warm up to 50 degrees - well above normal.

Behind the storm Thursday, strong, colder west winds will hit. 

Details of this storm need to be ironed out, so I'll have updates and better details in the next couple of days.  

The overall weather pattern will remain active, so there's chances of more stormy weather beyond Thursday.

I've seen quite a bit of hype among weather geeks on social media regarding the potential of colder, snowier storms during the second week of December.

Some of this hype has the worst of the bunch screaming about large New England and Northeast snowstorms in a little over a week. 

Don't hold your breath. The weather pattern that favors storminess like that might or might not develop. Even if it does, that's not a guarantee of any kind of big storm. I would just say the chances of a snowstorm during the second week of December are ever so slightly elevated, but definitely don't count on it.