Confirmed: Bullet (Mostly) Dodged Tuesday. Now, A Reprieve Until Friday

Continuing the trend of (sometimes) avoiding storm
photos, here we have a hollyhock bloom with water
droplets backlit by evening sun
Tuesday evening in St. Albans, Vermont.

I sort of anxiously peeked at today's new storm reports on the National Weather Service/South Burlington web page and found........not much. 

This pretty much confirms that we didn't have a lot of new issues on Tuesday despite a renewed flash flood threat. 

It had to be psychologically trying in hard hit Ludlow when a new flash flood warning was issued for that area. But so far, I'm not getting any reports of anything super bad down there. 

We did have a mudslide in Proctorsville Gulf, which is a sort of mini-canyon on Route 103 a little southeast of Ludlow. 

An isolated severe thunderstorm took down a couple of trees in Tunbridge. And I'm sure there were other instances here or there of a damaged back road or driveway, or a tree or two taken down in a rambunctious storm.  But Tuesday clearly did  not add that much to the destruction we've seen in Vermont this month. 

Burlington continues to be a "rain hole" in Vermont, picking up, once again, little rain. Some forecasts had called for an inch or so of rain in the Queen City on Tuesday. Instead, they picked up just 0.10 for a relatively modest total so far this month of 3.79 inches. That compares with Montpelier's total so far this month just about ten inches. 

WHAT'S NEXT

Things are definitely looking up for Vermont.  We are not entirely out of the woods with flood threats, but I'm a little  happier. 

First off, it won't rain today and tomorrow..  Wildfire smoke is still around, but it's  ittle thinner than it's been in recent days. 

Both days will bd quite warm, and moderately humid, so you want to take care of yourself, stay hydrated and not overdo things with flood cleanup.

The next chance of trouble is Friday.  Two days of dry weather won't solve the problem of saturated ground, so locally heavy rain will probably create some issues. 

The National Weather Service in South Burlington indicates it will probably issue a new flood watch for parts or all of Vermont on Friday.   

Meteorologists are pretty sure Friday's rain won't cause widespread flooding, and won't' send main rivers over the their banks again. But, pinpoint locations have a shot at new flash flooding. 

Even though showers will probably continue into Saturday, those showers at this point don't seem like they'll be heavy enough to make things worse. 

Onward and upward, then! 

 

St. Albans not far behind with 0.20