Quick Vermont Thursday Update: Another Drenching, But Flooding Unlikely, For Once. More Smoke, Too A

A narrow plume of wildfire smoke aloft (that milky
looking stuff in this satellite photo) made its way 
down from Canada and over Vermont yesterday.

 We're in for another drenching here in Vermont today, but this time, it looks like it will fall short of creating another flood problem.  Hallelujah! 

A new batch showers and thunderstorms will wet down virtually all of us this afternoon and evening.  In general, most places should get a half inch to an inch of rain. 

A few isolated spots could see up to two inches, which I suppose might create a problem with minor washouts and relatively minor flooding in low spots.  But even if this happens, which is extremely iffy, it shouldn't we widespread or severe at all.

Speaking of severe, some of the thunderstorms later today could be kinda of on the strong side, but it doesn't appear as if they'll cross over into the severe category. 

We're still looking at batches of showers, with locally  heavy rain pretty much every other day for the next week at least. So far, none of these potential storms look especially worrying, so we'll just keep a bit of an eye on them, but not panic.

I notice there's still quite a bit of wildfire smoke out there today.  (When we don't have floods, it seems we have wildfire smoke). Air quality this morning was so-so, but not in the dangerous category. A lot of the smoke is higher up, away from where we breathe.  Mostly, it's just creating hazy skies. 

That's why the sun was dim for much of the day Wednesday.  Smoke high up got in the way.  It did clear up some toward evening, but it's back temporarily this morning.  We'll continue to see smoky skies well into the autumn because the fires in Canada and the western U.S. won't be going away anytime soon.