Damp Vermont Tuesday After Monday Storm Under-Performed

Pretty dark and damp today in northern Vermont, as you
can see from this photo this morning in St. Albans.
Much brighter, more pleasant weather is coming
for the rest of the week, though. 

Yesterday and last night's expected soaking in Vermont wasn't quite the soggy episode that many forecasters had expected. 

But it still rained hard in the bullseye zone of the storm in eastern Massachusetts, parts of New Hampshire and Maine. 

Western Maine had widespread two to three inch rain reports, with a few places getting more than that. Flood warnings were up for the region this morning but have since expired.  

Here in Vermont, I suspected in yesterday's post there would be a sharp cut off in rainfall amounts in the Champlain Valley, and that certainly came true.  Only 0.10 inches of rain fell yesterday in Burlington.  

Central Vermont got somewhat less rain than expected, with amounts, give or take in the half inch range. But southern and far eastern Vermont got an inch or more of rain, so they got what was coming to them. 

Today is looking wetter than we thought it would be only a couple days ago. That's especially true in northern and central Vermont. Frequent, mostly light showers have been ongoing all morning, and that state of affairs should continue through the day. 

Although radar isn't showing it, some of the shallow rain clouds overhead are actually able to produce brief heavy downpours. I passed through a couple such downpours driving through Georgia, Vermont this morning. 

If you do get a downpour, it won't long. They'll fall far, far short of ever being able to cause any high water issues. Just want to mention that in case you're understandably still spooked from Vermont disastrous summer of floods. 

Especially for those of you north of Route 4, today will be a classic raw, dark, autumn day, with temperatures holding in the low 60s again, on the cool side. This type of weather is pretty normal for mid-September. 

For those of you who don't like the gloom, we're still looking a few days of super pleasant, sunny, comfortable September days starting tomorrow. Most mornings will be pretty foggy, though, especially in the river valleys. That's typical of this time of year. The fog will clear up by mid-morning daily

It is nice to have a stretch of normal September weather for a change.