Friday Evening Vermont Storm Update: Continues To Over-Perform, In Some Areas, Anyway

Water was flowing everywhere around my 
St. Albans, Vermont property this evening, including
areas it doesn't usually flow as torrential showers and 
storms moved through. 

 I wasn't going to do another update this Friday evening, but we seem to be in an era of over-performing storms. 

Some impressive downpours and strong storms for this time of year, anyway, continued late this afternoon and early this evening. 

There was a severe-warned storm for a time in and around Chittenden County.  I haven't heard of any reports of damage from that thunderstorm, but there was some pretty good wind gusts and torrential downpours with it. 

Very heavy showers were continuing as of 6 p.m. mostly in western and central Vermont as of 6 p.m. The back edge of the worst of it all was moving north, getting into Rutland County.

So the occasionally torrential rains should end soon. Soon enough, I think to prevent serious flooding, but I suspect there will be some spots with a some flash flooding this evening. I've already seen quite a bit of ponding of water on roads. Drainage ditches were also full of water, threatening to spill onto fields, lawns, roads and driveways. 

Any flooding this evening won't be anything on the scale we saw last summer. But it's a reminder we're getting more and more prone to heavier rain than in the past.  A few people will need to do some cleanup after today's rains, that's for sure. 

As of 6 p.m. flood warnings were mostly either east of Vermont in New Hampshire, or in New York. There is a flood warning for the mountains straddling Rutland and Windsor counties near Route 4, for small creeks that might go over their banks there.

The Ottaquechee River down that way had also reached minor flood stage. 

There was a little spin to the stronger storms today, but I'm not aware of any brief tornadoes touching down. There was a low chance of that happening today, but unless there's something I haven't heard about, we probably avoided anything like that.  

After we go through the heavy downpours this evening, we'll just be stuck with lighter showers overnight and on Saturday. All the state's rivers will be running high because of today's rain.  The lighter showers Saturday and Sunday will probably slightly slow the rate at which they recede.