Vermont Weather Week Ahead: Meh! And Still Waiting For Spring

It's that kind of early spring, with half-melted snow
holding fast on the ground, clouds, scattered cold
rain and wet snow showers. And bits of sun. The
upcoming week will bring more of the same to Vermont. 

Thankfully, the snow in Saturday mostly under-performed rather than over-performed, as I had feared.

Judging from Vermont Agency of Transportation web cams and my own travels, most places in central and northern parts of the state got about a half inch to an inch of snow.The Champlain Valley south of Georgia, and low elevations in southwestern and southeastern Vermont got nada. Lucky of them! 

 I had about a half inch at my place in St. Albans, Vermont, which melted, only to be replaced by another half inch overnight. 

It's going to be that kind of week. 

We're going to stay in somewhat of a holding pattern in Vermont  this week. Spring won't really advance much, but winter won't win any really big battles. 

We'll just plod on, like we mostly have over the past couple of weeks, with a slow snow melt, with some minor setbacks with bits of snow here and there. 

Today sets the tone.  It'll be blustery and chilly, but not super cold for this time of year. A few rain showers will dampen the pavement here and there, and no doubt your spirits, too. The mountains and hills will see a few snow showers, and they'll get a bit of additional snow, probably two inches or less. 

Monday and Tuesday will feature some sun, some clouds, and daytime temperatures hovering in the upper 30s to low 40s as they  have been all month.  

Of course as they week goes on, and the forecast gets more long range, the reliability of these weather predictions starts to fade a little.

Still, it looks like a sharp cold front might come in Wednesday or Wednesday evening, first with maybe a few rain showers. It's possible this could end up giving us some snow squalls, too. Meteorologists will keep an eye on that. 

If we do get those snow squalls, it'll be just a couple of inches of snow, not some big foot deep blizzard. We have to keep trying to look on the bright side here. 

Thursday looks like it might actually be one of the colder days of this entire month. From this vantage point it looks like the afternoon would barely get above freezing. 

Early indications are we'll sort of warm up, and get some (mostly!)  rain next weekend. Let's just  hope it does turn out to be some light rain, and doesn't change into a late season snowstorm. I doubt it will, but judging how grudging this early spring has been so far, nothing would surprise me. 

There's not much hope looking into the first week to 10 days of April, either. The trends for the beginning of April are still leaning toward chillier than average weather with  near to slightly above normal rain and, um, snow.

Eventually, we'll have the kind of bright, sunny warm spring days we all deserve. But not anytime soon, the way it looks.