After Wild Ride In Vermont, Quieter Thank Goodness. Same Goes For Scotland

View out the plane window on approach to Edinburgh,
Scotland today. Notice the background landscape is
not that different from the hills in Vermont. The seacoast
in the foreground doesn't look that much different from the
Lake Champlain shore in Burlington. 

 EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND - Just arrived at my temporary perch in Scotland, will I will be staying for the next eight days ago.  

It was a challenging trip from Newark, New Jersey to Edinburgh, and we arrived more than seven hours later than scheduled. It wasn't weather problems. 

It was just a cargo door that malfunctioned, then we were moved to another plane, but they didn't re-scan the luggage correctly, and that took time to fix, and then the flight crew ran out of hours so they had to find another crew.

Sigh. But we made it! We just arrived at our hotel.   The city at first glance is, as advertised, gorgeous.  We're too tired to explore today. It's 3:40 p.m here and already getting dark. Edinburgh is as far north as north-central Quebec, so we're up there.

Back in Vermont, there were weather challenges once again last evening, I'm told. For a time it was really puking snow along the western slopes of the Green Mountains and the summits. 

It turned into a real mess when a few inches of snow fell along Interstate 89 between Williston and Waterbury, with a good three inches piling up in short order. Meanwhile, at the National Weather Service office in South Burlington, they just barely mustered a trace. 

The sudden onslaught of snow along Interstate 89 caused a ton of slide offs and such.  A section of the interstate between Williston and Richmond closed for a time. 

Some of the higher snow totals from this latest in a what has amounted to a series of surprise snowfalls this week include 6.0 inches in Montgomery,  4.8 inches in Jeffersonville, 4.1 inches in Huntington, 4.0 inches in Johnson and 3.6 inches in the Nashville section of Jonesville. 

The weather here in Edinburgh looks like it will be similar to that of Vermont over the next couple days. (I noticed while the plane was coming in for a landing that the landscape outside of Edinburgh is similar to that of Vermont. There's snow covered hills, no snow on the ground in Edinburgh proper, and an overcast sky. Temperatures are hovering just barely above freezing. 

Same in Vermont. Highs today under cloudy skies should be barely into the 30s. It'll be a little warmer tomorrow over in the Green Mountain State.

For Vermonters, the next shot at precipitation is on Friday and especially Friday night. This could be another mess like on Monday, except rain or snow should be lighter than it was on Monday. The fast flow aloft will probably shear apart the oncoming storm somewhat, so at this stage it looks like the risk of a few inches of wet snow again in the high elevations, and perhaps more rain in the warmer valleys. 

Stay tuned, as things could change, as they certainly did on Monday.  

The forecast beyond Friday still looks clear as mud, as a continued fast flow aloft will throw all kinds of weather disturbances at us. But I still have no idea whether any of these will be fairly substantial, or just the usual snow and rain showers.

At least it won't be that cold. Temperatures should be near normal - highs in the 30s to around 40.

As I mentioned earlier, since I'm way over in Scotland, some of my posts will come in at odd times, and might not be as consistent as usual. My apologies, but as you might understand, I want to explore this beautiful city whilst I'm here. (Notice the UK affectation in that sentence already!)