Plenty more clean up to do in my St. Albans, Vermont 
driveway. Forecasts issued Sunday and Monday said we'd 
get about two inches. Instead I have 11.5 inches
of new, heavy snow. 

As we start our Wednesday morning, the snow continues to come down in many parts of Vermont

It's mostly lighter snow, but patches of heavier snow were still around early this morning, especially along the spine and western slopes of the Green Mountains. Even the southern Green Mountains that go so much snow yesterday, still seemed to be getting more as of dawn today. 

WHOPPING ACCUMULATIONS 

Final totals aren't in yet, since it's still snowing in many areas, but the amounts in some areas are absolutely eye-popping. In Vermont, the highest total I've seen so far is 36 inches in Marlboro, followed closely by 34.9 inches in Readsboro.

Those two reports came in last evening.  I'm sure they've had additional accumulations since in those two towns. 

The most I've seen anywhere so far is a crushing 36 inches in Moriah, New York, which is the eastern Adirondack foothills west of Port Henry,  and Colrain, Massachusetts, which is on the Vermont border close to Halifax and Readsboro.  Rowe, Massachusetts was close behind with 35 inches. Plainfield, New Hampshire had 32 inches. 

(There was a report of 43 inches in Beacon, New York, but the National Weather Service office in New York City says that report is erroneous).

Northern and central Vermont definitely over-performed, too.  Preliminary reports give us 23.2 inches in Shrewsbury, 20 inches in Mount Holly, The Addison County town of Waltham had 22.5 inches, which surprised me because it's not a particularly high elevation. (The highest snow totals came from elevated terrain).

Further north in Vermont, so far the highest totals I've seen so far are 22.5 inches in Waterbury Center and 18 inches in Greensboro.   Morrisville was close behind at 17.5 inches. 

We'll see some more, bigger totals later this morning, I'm sure. 

Web cam image from the Vermont Agency of 
Transportation showed traffic tied up in the snow 
along Interstate 89 in Georgia early this morning. 

This storm will join the famous big time, historic snowstorms in Vermont that are clustered around the March 13 and 14 time frame. Those include the Great Blizzard of 1888, a three-foot dump on March 14, 1984, the so-called "Storm of the Century" in 1993 and the Pi Day Blizzard on March 14, 2017.

THE CURRENT SITUATION:

It's still a mess out there in much of Vermont early this morning. About 26,000 homes and businesses were still without power as of 7 a.m. today. That's down from a peak of about 38,000 yesterday, but it's still a lot 

Any falling snow out there is still a little on the wet side as temperatures were near 30 degrees at daybreak.   It's windy out there, and it will stay that way all day. That will cause a few new outages, and make it a lot harder to restore power to those who are already out. 

A lot of schools in Vermont have delayed openings today and a few are closed. More time is needed to clear road of the heavy snow. Power outages, fallen trees and branches are all complicating the cleanup. 

Traffic cameras across the state at dawn today showed main roads in low elevations in southeastern Vermont were pretty good. 

Elsewhere, not so much. Most looks snow covered and slippery as snow continued to fall. Road crews are out, but you're really going to need to take your time heading into work today. Or stay home if you can. Unlike at this time yesterday, roads in the Champlain Valley look worse than highways in other parts of the state. 

I'm also still seeing reports of sections of roads blocked in a few spots in Vermont due to fallen trees and power lines.  I also noticed on a Vermont Agency of Transportation web cam of some sort of traffic jam and stopped traffic on Interstate 89 in Georgia as of 7:45 a.m. today. 

Roads - at least the main ones - should improve quite a bit during the day as snow intensities decline. It'll be a cold one, but plenty warm enough for salt to work on the highways. Plus, unlike yesterday, in most places, the snowfall will be light enough such that some heat from the strong March sun should get through to melt snow and ice on the pavement. 

WHAT'S NEXT

As noted, it was snowing fairly hard in a few locations and steadily in a lot of others as of 7 a.m. today. 

That huge, lumbering nor'easter was still close to the New England coast early this morning, and it was flinging moisture back westward all the way to Vermont and eastern New York.

Trees heavily weighed down by wet snow in my 
St. Albans, Vermont  yard early this morning. 

The storm was expected to be moving east by now, but it's had a hard time moving. Signs are now suggesting that is finally slowly departing, so the snow should taper off gradually. It will probably keep falling at perhaps lighter intensities all day in the mountains and western slopes. 

Winds will gust as high as 40 mph, so where it's a little colder, blowing snow will be a problem today. 

The storm is out of our hair tonight, but no rest for the weary!  A couple of systems will bring us a little bit more snow, then, for most of us, some rain Friday and Friday night. 

The first little thing to come through will be a weak disturbance that will spread snow showers across mostly northern Vermont tomorrow afternoon. That snow will probably mix with rain in the warmer, lower valleys. 

Anybody that does get snow from this won't see much. Maybe an inch or two.

On Friday a somewhat stronger storm comes through. with mostly rain, though some snow will come at the beginning and end of it, especially in the mountains and the Northeast Kingdom.

We won't see enough rain to cause any widespread flooding but there could be some problems in towns and cities where rain and melting snow will sit and cause street flooding because storm drains are clogged with snowbanks. 

Behind that storm, we'll have a really cold day on Sunday with a few snow showers around (Highs will only be about 30 degrees, which is at least ten degrees colder than normal for this time of year).

However, it's beginning to look like we start next week with great sugaring weather. Hard freezes will come at night as temperatures go into the low 20s, but afternoons will pop up to the low 40s for many of us. Sunshine should help, too.

Those of you who want to play in the snow over the next few days certainly have plenty of it. Just watch it in steep back country areas. I'd say there's a pretty good avalanche risk up there.