Vermont Having Trouble Escaping Rain This Week

 For the second morning in a  row, surprise showers are rolling through Vermont.

Some fairly rare asperatis clouds over Georgia,
Vermont Tuesday, which was another overcast, 
gray day among many lately. 

Once again, they are not going to amount to anything huge, but it's certainly keeping things damp for people doing fall cleanup before winter arrives. 

The gods have been steering extra rain toward us since Saturday.

The weekend storm over-performed, as I noted previously, dumping more than two inches of rain on many parts of Vermont. 

In northern Vermont Sunday, the rain continued all day, without a break. On Monday, skies were slow to clear and drizzle unexpectedly lingered in some areas until mid-day.

Tuesday was supposed to be dry, but what were those pesky light showers doing around all morning. (There was even a pocket or two of freezing rain briefly early in the morning up in the Adirondacks).

At least the thicker than expected overcast also brought us a glimpse of some rare asperitas clouds, which are these weird wavy gray clouds you see in first photo in this post. 

That brings us to this morning. I checked radar when I got up and it was lit up with an army of showers rushing in from New York State and into Vermont.  These are a bit more convective in nature, with a hint of the tall clouds you'd see in summertime showers and thunderstorms. 

It doesn't look like any of these showers contain any thunder or lightning, so don't worry about that. Though I did note a couple lightning strikes west of Montreal, which is interesting. 

Much like yesterday, the showers should pretty much be out of here by this afternoon, knock on wood, fingers crossed for no more surprises.

It is much warmer this morning, so that part of the forecast was spot on. 

Although it will be oddly warm for the next couple of days, it won't be exactly be sunny. And we'll still be prone to these little batches of "surprise" showers.  

Ahead of this morning's batch of showers, convective
clouds began to bubble up around dawn over
St. Albans, Vermont 

The air is going to be really humid for this time of year.  Not uncomfortably so, but still not the type of dry air that is characteristic of late October.

Dew points will be in the 50s.  That will help lead to lots of clouds.  Often when the air is that damp, we can get some good rains. 

But there's no big triggers to set off any steady downpours. Instead, clumps of decaying showers and thunderstorms from the Midwest might pass through from time to time in the form of fast-moving light showers or sprinkles through Friday. 

Most of the time it will be dry, though. 

The warm spell ends over the weekend.  Sunday at this point is looking overcast, cool with increasing chances of rain.   Go figure on a Vermont weekend this year!  The cold rain is probably going to last into Monday, which is Halloween. Hopefully it will end in time for trick or treating that evening. 

We're also going to end this long mostly warm spell that began at the end of August.  For the first time in a long time, we're in for what appears to be a fairly extended period of chillier than normal weather, starting on Halloween. 

For the first time this autumn, the National Weather Service mentions a chance of snow even in the valleys next Monday night and Tuesday. It'll only be flurries, so it's panic time.  But it is a reminder that winter will come, despite the messages this warm autumn has been sending us so far.