Vermont Still Having Trouble Shaking Nasty Weather

The outer edges of a very severe thunderstorm west of
Plattsburgh, New York Monday after extended clouds
all the way to the skies over St. Albans, Vermont.
That particular storm avoided the Green Mountain
State, so no trouble in northwest Vermont. 

 It happened again on Monday: Vermont was  under threat from severe weather and flash flooding.

Luckily, the outcome wasn't too bad, as the most of the friskiest thunderstorms stayed in New York State. 

Still, it's a little hard on the psyche when you see yet another flash flood warning in Vermont, like we did for a time Monday afternoon in Addison County.  On the plus side, I don't see any reports of actual   flooding from the Middlebury area.

Trees did fall in the town of Addison during the storms, and penny sized hail was spotted up in Barre.

 I watched from my perch in St. Albans as a big storm miss Vermont by a couple dozen miles to my west. That one knocked over a bunch of trees and power lines north and west of Plattsburgh, New York.  

So that's done. 

We get a break today and tomorrow with only isolated, non-severe, non-flooding showers and storms. Almost everybody will stay dry, though. 

Of course, they've changed the forecast for Thursday, as - again - we can't seem to shake the storms in Vermont. 

Sunny, very warm and humid weather that had been forecast Thursday. Now, there's a strong chance that a complex of showers and thunderstorms from the Midwest will target us instead. 

Since we are getting some dry or at least dry-ish days here and there for a change, the flash flood risk from the type of system that would hit us Thursday is diminishing a little. But it's not entirely going away,   

 If a series of downpours hits a particular spot in Vermont Thursday, there could be some renewed flash flood problems. It won't be an extreme risk, and definitely not widespread, but we seem to have gotten used to that drill this summer. 

After a sweltering Friday, we still see signs of an almost autumn like blast from Canada late in the weekend and early next week. Depending on the timing of the cold front, we could see some locally heavy downpours either later Friday or Saturday.

After the cold front goes by, Vermont might find itself in rare national sweet spot.

While most of the nation will still be roasting in horrible heat waves, there's hope we could find ourselves bathed in low humidity and daytime temperatures barely making it into the 70s. 

There's still some question marks, though, as to whether that cool air will bring sunshine, or clouds and light showers.