Remarkably (After This Summer's Disasters) Vermont Once Again In Bullet Dodging Mode

Finally, a Vermont weather trend with no flooding, no
major storm damage, just things like this nice
sunset over St. Albans, Vermont Monday 

A quick update for Vermont today, because there's an odd reason to celebrate. 

Yes, I know it's rainy and dreary in parts of the state this morning. Yes, I know it's been raining all summer.  

For a change, though, we seem to have fallen into a dodge the bullet mode.  For instance, a severe storm outbreak in the Northeast Saturday mostly missed us, with just a handful of reports of storm damage in Vermont. 

Today is another close miss. The storm bringing the rain to southern Vermont created flash flood problems through the Middle Atlantic States Monday.

 By far the most distressing part of all this was a flash flood in Washington DC that collapsed a wall at a dog daycare center. Several dogs perished, which makes me feel horrible. 

Up here in Vermont, today's rainfall in southern Vermont won't be nearly enough to cause flooding. Northern Vermont is getting little or no rain. Sunshine might even break out in that part of the state this afternoon. 

The next storm, on Thursday at this point also looks to be a non-starter. There is a chance it could produce enough rain to create some local problems here and there, but that's really uncertain at this point. We're following trends on that one in case we get surprised again. 

We're also missing out on heat waves. The South has been baking for weeks, the Pacific Northwest is having a record heat wave currently. Dangerous, possibly record breaking heat is forecast for a large swath of the Midwest this weekend and early next week.

Meanwhile, here in Vermont, the hottest it's gotten all month so far in Burlington is a mild 83 degrees.  No hot spells are in the forecast for at least the next week. We've dodged the heat bullet, too!