Early Afternoon Vermont Storm Update: Slamming Southern, Central Vermont, Northwest Nothingburger?

While much of Vermont is being blasted by a LOT of 
snow that will pile up to 12-24 inches, the northwest
corner of Vermont is getting basically nothing.
Just 3.7 inches in St. Albans as of 1 p.m. so
this will be the bust zone in this storm, as
it looks now. 

 The snow has really come down this morning and early afternoon across parts of southern and central Vermont while the northwest corner of the state seems to be largely missing out on the excitement.  

As of early afternoon, 14.5 inches of new snow was reported in Shrewsbury, and several amounts of around a foot were reported near and south of Route 4.  I still won't be at all surprised if a few places see two feet of snow. 

The snow was really getting going in northern Vermont, with up to nine inches reported so far. A band of especially heavy snow looked like it was setting up in a band southwest to northeast across central Vermont. 

The storm so far is a dud in the northwest corner of Vermont up by St. Albans and points north and west. In St. Albans, only 3.7 inches of snow had accumulated by 1 p.m. and only light snow was falling. It appeared the western edge of the snow was approaching the northwest tip of Vermont.

 If the continues during the early and mid afternoon and it's looking like it might, snow totals in the northern Champlain islands and western Franklin County will be under six inches, not even justifying the winter storm warning that's in effect.

We'll know by late afternoon if this bust comes true. 

Meanwhile, further south, the snow blasts on. 

Rain and a mix was creeping into far southern Vermont as expected. It was raining in Bennington with a temperature of 35 degrees as of 1 p.m, but you didn't have to go far north to hit heavy snow. Northern Bennington and Windham counties were still in the snow. 

So far, the snow in most places hasn't been as wet and heavy as expected. We still didn't have any power outages to report as of 1 p.m. That means things probably won't be as bad as first thought, thought I still expect power outage issues later this afternoon.