Vermont Snow Keeps Piling Up In Some Spots, But Other Areas Remain Strangely Snow-Free

Traffic cam grab shows wintry travel along 
Interstate 89 in Colchester early this afternoon.

Now that we're into January, it's a tale of two very different types of winter in Vermont. 

 It's occasionally looked vaguely blizzardy and definitely cold out there the past couple of days in some parts of Vermont. Even the Champlain Valley has been getting some snow, even if it's nothing huge. 

In the Champlain Valley, the lake has been pretty efficient at adding snow to make things whiter than they otherwise would be. 

At 1 p.m. today, Burlington was actually reporting a period of heavy snow, even as the snow just lightly falling almost everywhere else. 

Other areas are completely snow free, with drab, brown bare ground instead of the usually winter white surroundings.  

For most of us, it never snowed hard, and it's just been rounds of snow, blowing snow, iffy road conditions and gradually accumulating snow.

The snow cover remains thin for many of us, or even non-existent. Traffic cameras are showing pretty much no snow on the ground at all on the Connecticut River valley floor from Brattleboro all the way up to Thetford.

You have to hit Newbury along Interstate 91 to see a snow cover. 

The lowest elevations of southwest Vermont, like Bennington and Fair Haven, have barely a dusting on the ground. Go up slightly in elevation, though, and the snow cover is fresh and consistent, if not super deep. 

At about the same time as the above photo, it's not even
looking like winter on Route 4 in Fair Haven.

Shrewsbury, in the heart of the eastern Rutland County snow belt, usually has TONS of snow on the ground. As of this morning, the snow cover there was just six inches.

Head north to higher elevations in and near the Green Mountains, though, and there's some real snow on the ground.  There's 22 inches of snow on the ground in Montgomery, and 18 inches in Westfield. Greensboro has 14 inches. 

Further south, along the slopes of the Green Mountains, there's a decent amount of snow, too. Huntington is enjoying a 14-inch deep snow cover. Starksboro has a foot. 

And all this doesn't include what has fallen this morning and afternoon

OUTLOOK

Not much more snow is on the way, but there will continue to be some minor accumulations in the coming days up in high elevations, especially in the northern Green Mountains. 

The snow should finally taper off in the northern mountains tonight or very early tomorrow.  A little light snow might come through Saturday, which affords the best opportunity for southern Vermont valleys to receive a dusting of snow. Just a dusting. 

Most of the meager snowfall we might get over the next week, though, will probably hit mostly in the northern Greens again. 

There's no sign of any decent storm of snow or anything else around Vermont until at least January 19.