Today's Storm Over-Performed In Northern Vermont; Will End Very Soon

After I'd shoveled about three inches of snow off my 
driveway and truck this afternoon, another burst
of snow dumped an additional 1.5 inches of fairly
wet snow on the driveway.

 The supposed "nothing burger" snowfall today turned out to be more than that, at least in parts of northern Vermont. 

Instead of the sporadic periods of wet snow, mixed with rain that would only amount to an inch or two, it snowed all day north of Burlington. As of 5 p.m. today 4.4  inches of snow had accumulated at my place in St. Albans, Vermont. 

That includes 1.6 inches within two hours ending at 5 p.m. (The 1.6 inches was about the forecast entire storm total in forecasts issued yesterday).

Snowfall reports elsewhere in Vermont are pretty scant today. As of 1 p.m., Burlington had received 2.3 inches of new powder. That's a little more than what had been forecast yesterday, but very much in line with what updated forecasts issued early this morning had indicated. 

Other reports I've seen are: 7 inches in Randolph Center;  6 inches in South Strafford, Vermont as of 4:20 p.m.; 4 inches in Morrisville and just 1.5 inches in Rutland. 

In central and southern Vermont, things had pretty much ended by 4 p.m. Judging from Vermont Agency of Transportation, main roads looked pretty good. In parts of central and especially northern Vermont, your current commute home is looking rather icky. 

The snow seemed to be tapering off early to mid-afternoon along and north of Route 2, but a new burst of moderate snow began around before 4 p.m.  Traffic cams showed iffy roads across the north, and that should continue a bit into the evening. 

Luckily, temperatures have warmed into the low 30s, so road salt is working pretty well.

Even better, radar imagery as of 5 p.m. indicated the last band of moderate snow was getting ready to leave northern Vermont. After this goes, we'll just have light snow showers tonight. We won't see much additional accumulation, if any. 

NEXT 2 DAYS

Warmer valleys in Vermont should actually melt a little of the snow tomorrow and Thursday as temperatures climb well into the 30s to near 40.  It still looks like a bit of rain and snow will come down Wednesday night and Thursday, but it won't amount to much. 

A Vermont Agency of Transportation web cam captured
a state snow plow clearing Route 2 in Cabot as a 
school bus followed behind. Today's storm 
over-performed in parts of Vermont. 

WEEKEND STORM 

We still don't have much news to report on a potential larger storm that could come in Friday night and last into Saturday. 

The potential is definitely there for a good dump of snow, but the computer models are still not singing from the same page on this one. 

We could still see mixed precipitation, but it sort of seems like the scenario is leaning toward snow. It's still not clear at all if Vermont will see heavy snow out of this, and if so where. It definitely could happen. 

In many years, the largest snowstorm of the winter strikes in March.  Think Superstorm, 1993, Big snowstorm of March, 2011, and the Pi Day Blizzard of 2017.  

We won't have a storm anywhere as big as those epic storms, but the possibility is there that Saturday could bring us the deepest snowstorm of the winter. I know that's not saying all that much this year.