A Couple More Days Of Light Vermont Snow Before A New Thaw

Late afternoon sun breaks through the clouds near the 
Winooski River in Burlington, Vermont's Intervale
Friday.  The view is looking east and the dark clouds
in the background are snow continuing to fall
along the western slopes of the Green Mountains. 

 I woke up this Saturday morning to find it snowing lightly once again outside my St. Albans, Vermont home.  

The forecasts indicating we'd get "flurried to death" this weekend seem to be coming true.  No blockbuster storms, for sure, but it will seems in some areas there are always snowflakes in the air. 

Vermont ski resorts are ending up having a good Presidents Day weekend, at least I hope. The light to moderate snows of yesterday have freshened up the slopes, the resorts are blasting the snow guns, more snow is falling and temperatures are comfortable for winter sports. 

For a change this winter, things are breaking in favor of the winter sports industry. At least for now. 

Yesterday's snow ended in the morning for most of us, but kept going all day along the western slopes and summits of the central and northern Green Mountains.  By 5:30 p.m. Friday, 6.8 inches of new snow had accumulated in Underhill and it was still coming down. 

There were several reports of six inches or so of snow elsewhere in and near the northern Green Mountains on Friday, with a general two to five inches elsewhere. Some lucky or unlucky valley dwellers, depending on your perspective got only a little over an inch. 

WEEKEND SNOW

The light snow falling across a good portion of Vermont this morning will tend to get lighter and more showery as the day goes on. The best chances of it continuing to snow are up in the mountains once again. 

The snow comes to more of a lull tonight between systems. Flurries might still be around, but they'll be fewer and further between. 

Things get mildly exciting again later on Sunday.  Lake affects snows in northwestern New York might have enough oomph to spread snow showers into Vermont again.  And, once again, mostly in the mountains.

Then, a small storm will race at full speed down from Hudson Bay, Canada, then make a hard left turn through southern Quebec Sunday night and then zoom away, kind of like a kid in a car who does a doughnut in an icy parking lot and then speeds away so the cops don't catch  him.

For us, that means the little storm will flick a quick cold front through us Sunday night and maybe early Monday with its band of snow showers and possible snow squalls.  The quick hitters won't drop much snow, but we'll have to watch out for brief white outs on the highways and briefly slick roads

That will pretty much end our rare period of consistent, but very light snows in Vermont

ANOTHER THAW?

Tuesday looks like it will start off cold with temperatures in the single numbers. By afternoon, under what looks to be a  sunny day, temperatures should hit the low 30s. The sun angle is getting higher now, so the heat from the sun is getting more noticeable. 

Sunshine, comfortable temperatures and light winds will really make it seem pleasant out there. 

It's still looking like a thaw will set in Wednesday and Thursday as valleys get to about 40 degrees. Dry air and subfreezing nights mean the snow might not melt all that fast. On the other hands, the snow has a very low water content, so that will make it disappear fairly quickly.

Some sort of storminess and possibly cooler weather looks like it might come next weekend. But the overall pattern wants to favor mild weather over the Northeast. 

We're running out of time to have hard core subzero deep snow winter weather.  I might be jinxing the month of March here, but if you want deep winter weather, it's really beginning to look like you'll need to wait until next December and January. .