Surprise! Decent Vermont Snowfall Now In the Cards For Tuesday

Unlike most storms, the National Weather Service office
in South Burlington is predicting pretty uniform snow
totals Tuesday in Vermont. If this forecast pans out,
almost all of us will see somewhere between four
and six inches of fresh powder on Tuesday.

 Well, that escalated today!

A winter weather advisory is now in effect for all of Vermont Tuesday. What had been expected to be a very light snowfall has turned into a decent, moderate sized hit.  

Predicted accumulations are pretty uniform throughout the state with most of us probably in for four to six inches of powder.

A coastal storm that was expected to miss us by a wide margin is now expected to track a little closer to the New England coast, enabling it to join forces with a disturbance coming in from the west. The result?  A not-spectacular snowstorm but decent dump for us. 

It'll be a big help for winter sports in the state. Especially for snowmobiles, snow shoeing and cross country skiing in low elevations that don't have that much snow. 

For a change, the snow is showing no signs that it will want to mix with anything. It'll just be a powdery snow all day Tuesday, as temperatures hold in the 20s. 

It'll probably start snowing lightly in Vermont during the early to mid morning, and peak in the afternoon with a period of moderate snow. 

Road conditions won't be great. There should be a little snow on the roads for the morning commute and even more in the evening. 

There won't be a lot of wind with this thing, and as I said, the snow will be powdery. That means we don't have to worry about another round of power outages this time. 

Unlike the pleasant snowstorm we had on January 7, this snow will stick around for a little while anyway. The January 7 snow melted or got crushed into miserable slush and ice on January 10 when we got hit by the first of two big, destructive windstorms.

This time, it will stay cold for days. In fact, Friday and Saturday still look very cold. By very cold I mean many of us will be below zero at night, highs will only be in the single numbers and teens, and wind chills could be well below zero.   

This being the winter of 2023-24 the delightful new snow cover won't last forever. Longer range forecasts are trending stronger and stronger toward another extended heat wave that would probably start about a week from tomorrow.   

By the way, there's always last minute adjustments to every storm, so I'm sure there will be changes to the forecast when we wake up tomorrow morning.