Pesky Light, Wet Snow For A Vermont Friday; Questions Still On 2 More Storms

UPDATE 8:30 a.m. 

If you've made it work on the mostly 

Forecast map fort additional snowfall today shows it'
won't amount to much, with an inch or so in the 
Champlain Valley and perhaps a little
over three inches in some parts of southeast Vermont.UPDATE: 8:30 a.m.

just wet Vermont main roads this morning, congratulations,

Now, a band of snow is moving into Vermont from west to east, so road conditions will probably deteriorate some for the next couple of or few hours.

This isn't super heavy snow, but it will be enough to make roake road conditions go downhill somewhat. 

Let's be careful out there 

PREVIOUS DISCUSSION 7 am. 

 Most of the storm we are currently technically still in this Friday morning came in a three or four hour thump last night. But last night's short round of heavy snow was the bulk of the storm. 

Generally speaking most of us received three or four inches of snow out of it. It looks like, as expected, mixed precipitation held down accumulations in parts of southern Vermont. 

I'm going to stop here for a second and once again express my frustration with a lack of funding for the National Weather Service. Once again, their web sites were junky early this morning. Opening pages within the web site usually yielded error messages. 

If you were persistent and kept trying, you could certainly get their forecast page. But a lot of the deep dive pages, like clicking on a specific town to see current conditions and that of the last several hours, or looking at their forecast discussion or other data, either didn't work and gave error messages, or did work only after multiple tries.

This issue has happened on multiple occasions over the last couple of years. Sometimes when dangerous weather lurked. 

The National Weather Service needs funding to upgrade its public facing technology, as they are such a critical agency.  Instead of providing adequate (not lavish!) funding, Congress is posturing over debt ceiling nonsense.

OK, that's the end of my political rant. Back to the weather. 

Depending on your viewpoint, today will either bring nuisance snow or a little icing on the cake. In other words, we'll get a little more snow, but not much. 

As of this morning, the drive to work for those of you out on the roads doesn't look awful. The lull in the precipitation early this morning has left main roads either wet or slushy.  More rural roads look slick. 

The great job Vermont highway crews did on the roads still might deteriorate some at times today as light snow redevelops. 

Far southern Vermont might recoup some of the snow it lost out on last night, as the most accumulation today will be down in that region with perhaps two or three inches of new accumulation. But even there, the warmest valleys could easily still see rain.  It was 36 degrees at 6 a.m. in Bennington, for instance.  

That's not a recipe for accumulating snow, though temperatures will probably drop a bit later today in southern Vermont. And Vermont Agency of Transportation web cams showed some wet snow in the air along Route 7 in Bennington as of 7 a.m. 

Further north, it will still be warmish today with temperatures in the 30-34 degree range in the valleys. That's definitely cold enough for snow, but there won't be much. Today's accumulations will range from a little less than an inch to up to three inches in favored mid and high elevations. Not a biggie, really. 

MORE STORMS

There's still two more storms in the pipeline, as mentioned yesterday. 

Forecast models are still trying to figure these storms out. '

The next one, Sunday night, seems to be favoring southeastern Vermont with the most snow. That said, the predicted path of this storm keeps windshield wipering back and forth, inland or near the coast. Expectations on its strength keep varying, too. So it's too early to honestly hazard a guess on how much snow will come with Sunday night's system. 

It will be a fast mover, so it won't linger long enough to drop blockbuster amounts of snow. 

The other storm after that, coming midweek is even more of a wild card. It could go inland, giving us in Vermont a mix of precipitation types, or it could go far enough east to dump mostly snow.

We'll just need to keep watching those two systems. And of course I'll provide updates on them.