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| Another day of severe weather and tornadoes is due in the Plains today. Up here in Vermont, we can expect some changeable weather over the next few days. |
Here in Vermont, we'll have changeable weather, including a rather stormy Monday and Monday night. More on that coming up.
TORNADO/STORM HAVOC
Bad weather continued on Friday in the middle of the nation and it's going to get worse today.
Early Friday, a band of intense thunderstorms and a few embedded tornados raced from Nebraska, through Iowa and into Illinois, causing more damage.
Greenfield, Iowa, where an intense, deadly tornado mowed down and pulverized homes along a path through town on Tuesday, thunderstorm winds of 75 mph caused added damage there. Those winds tore tarps off of tornado-damaged roofs, knocked down some of the surviving trees and cut power again.
Today, the alarm bells are going off especially in Kansas and Oklahoma, where we have another risk of violent, long-lasting tornadoes later today.
That area is in a moderate risk zone for chaos, the second highest level. As of early this morning, NOAA's Storm Prediction Center was considering upgrading the risk level to a relatively rare high rating. There's still some questions as to how much super humid air will feed into this area. If the humid air doesn't fully engulf this risk area, tornadoes might not be as widespread as feared.
Stay tuned, and we'll hope the humidity sputters.
Metro areas in the danger zone include Oklahoma City and Tulsa, Oklahoma and Wichita, Kansas. In addition to the tornadoes, giant hail and hurricane force straight line winds are also possible in spots. Not everybody in the risk zone will see such dangerous weather, but a few certainly will.
The activity moves on to Ohio and Mid-Mississippi Valley.
VERMONT EFFECTS
Well, the heat we had this past week is certainly over.
After a gorgeous, breezy, refreshing blue sky, green landscape day Friday, those clear skies led to the chilliest dawn since early this month.
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| A crisp, blue sky morning in Vermont will lead to some changeable weather over the next few days, though we're lucky enough to not be in for the kind of severe weather occurring out in the Midwest. No tornadoes for us! |
It wasn't extreme, but temperatures did fall to at least 31 in perennial cold spot Saranac Lake, New York. Readings in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom were in the mid-30s, while most of us were in the 40s.
Burlington ended an 11-day streak of temperatures continuously above 50 degrees, which is quite rare for May.
We'll have another nice day today, though clouds will increase. A weak disturbance tonight will scatter some showers around, and we might even hear a rumble of thunder in a couple spots. No biggie.
Sunday will be a warm, largely sunny day. It might be a little too warm for those participating in Sunday's Vermont City Marathon in Burlington. Temperatures at dawn will start out near 60 and quickly rise well into the 70s by noon. Humidity will be moderate.
The interesting weather arrives Monday into Tuesday as we in Vermont see the effects of that Midwest storm.
Luckily, we won't see extremes, but we should get a good dose of rain, some thunderstorms, and especially in the Champlain Valley, some gusty south winds.
After a few days of low humidity, we'll actually need the rain for the gardens. At this point anywhere from a half inch to an inch and a half of rain is in the cards. The National Weather Service actually has us in a broad marginal risk zone for flash flooding Monday and Monday night.
That said, even if we see anything like that in Vermont, it will be isolated and not catastrophic. We're still - so far at least - not setting ourselves up for anything like we had last summer.
Starting Tuesday and going through the rest of the week, the weather will stay sort of cool for the season with risks for showers almost daily. No new heat waves in sight for now.
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