Video: Finally, A Little Vermont Snow

Light snow begins to whiten up the winter landscape
in St. Albans, Vermont on December 11, 2022.

 The classic first big snowstorm of the season in Vermont plays out like this:

It had been cold for a few days, so things have frozen up. The ground is hard and frosty. Ice is forming on the edges of the brooks, and the ponds have a thin skim of ice.  

The blue sky turns milky, with a big rainbow ring around the sun. Then the clouds get lower, thicker, duller, and blot out the sun.  It's gloomy.

Then you notice the tops of the mountains get blurry and disappear. That blurriness descends down the slopes of the mountains until a few snowflakes start drifting down. 

Soon, the snow gets steadier and heavier. A dark, bare landscape finally starts to glow winter white.

Well, there was an attempt, anyway at the scenario in Vermont on Sunday. The snow ultimately didn't amount to much, but otherwise the scenario above pretty much played out. Without the end result of deep snow, but that's OK. 

Of course, I had to video at least part of the sequence.  The sky had already turned gloomy, and water in the brooks made their way past building ice. Jackson the Weather Dog sniffed at  the changed in the weather coming, and shook the first few snowflakes of the day off his coat.  

 The dark, cold, landscape gradually took on some white highlights in the light falling snow. The roads got a bit icy as cars, with Christmas trees strapped on the roof, returned from the cut your own tree farm up in Bakersfield. 

The video is a glimpse of winter's (somewhat reluctant) arrival.  But there is the chance of an even bigger storm toward the end of the week. We'll see.

If you don't see the image of the video below, click on this link to view. Otherwise, click on the image below to view the video of an attempt at bringing on the early part of winter in Vermont: