The Ultimate Perfect Vermont Spring Saturday Leading Toward A Near Perfect Spring Week

Brilliant blue skies, new leaves on the trees. It was 
impossible to not absolutely love the spring 
weather in Vermont on Saturday. 

 In my 60-year life so far in Vermont I'm hard pressed to recall a spring day as perfect and quintessential as Saturday.   

All the boxes were checked.  The sky was a brilliant blue.  The temperature was perfect, rising into the low 70s. 

 A nice breeze came up, helping to keep the black flies at bay and making the hundreds of daffodils around my house dance in the sunshine. 

We are also in what I regard as peak foliage season.  Most people gawk in awe at our autumn foliage. Me included. 

But my favorite Vermont foliage season comes in May, when the forests are erupting with new green leaves. There are too many subtle shades of green in these newly blossoming leaves to count. The way the new leaves glisten in the sun is almost too much to bear.

Let's just say yesterday's weather put me in a really, really really good mood. 

Nothing in life is perfect, but yesterday, and the coming week will be almost as close as you can get. I did note some clouds blocking the sun in parts of southern Vermont and the Adirondacks yesterday, but it was still nice. 

A St. Albans, Vermont garden glistens in the warm sun
on Saturday, May 6. 

Starting today and going through the week, it won't necessarily be crystal clear out there all the time, but the weather will remain absolutely stunning. And peak foliage will continue, augmented by apple, crab apple and lilac blooms that are starting to burst forth. 

We'll see some clouds creep in this Sunday afternoon, but it will still be a spectacular day. Highs will be about as warm as they were yesterday, near 70. A breeze will develop again, so that will be nice. 

Tonight, a weather disturbance might drop a few light showers across southern Vermont but they won't amount to much. 

Then we'll get hit by a weak "back door" cold front.  It's called that because these come at us from the northeast, instead of the west or northwest like normal cold fronts. Back door cold fronts are most common in the spring. 

Late afternoon sun mixed with speckled shade in a
St. Albans, Vermont garden Saturday. 

I think it's because the North Atlantic is near its coldest point this time of year, so it can cool the atmosphere and send cold fronts our way. 

We'll see almost no rain with it, but you'll definitely notice a cool down. 

Nothing dramatic or scary, but we should barely make it to 60 degrees for highs tomorrow and Tuesday. 

Monday night and Tuesday night will get down into the 30s. So if  you prematurely put out sensitive plants, you might want to think about protecting them.

The sunshine and breezes will continue on Monday through at least Wednesday. 

The next shot at any rain comes Thursday and Friday, but even then, the weather at this point looks as if it will stay mostly beautiful.