Vermont Weather Remains Busy, Snowy, Squally With "Wrong Way" Temperatures

Traffic cam of Route 2 on the Causeway between Milton
and South Hero looks windblown, as you can see
on the Lake Champlain ice next to the road. 

 A peaceful light snow was falling across much of Vermont early this morning, as expected. 

Of course, the roads are iffy with that snow, so once again, you'll need to take care driving to school or work.  Much like yesterday, after those early morning snow squalls we had, there's some school closings and quite a few delayed openings, so check your local listings.

Temperatures overnight went the wrong way, and that trend of weird temperature swings will continue for the next several days.  It'll seem like one moment it's frigid, the next balmy. For the next few days, it will be as if winter is really angry, keeps storming out of the room and then coming back in to yell, "OH, AND ANOTHER THING!"

That's life in a Vermont winter, I guess. 

TODAY

As the snow moved in overnight, temperatures slowly rose, instead of falling like they should before dawn. At daybreak, it was mostly in the teens, except low 20s west. So still kinda chilly this morning. 

Those temperatures keep rising for awhile this morning, peaking in the mid and upper 20s north and 30s south by around noon. 

At that point, things get more interesting. The storm is bringing an Arctic cold front with by very late morning or early afternoon. The result: Everybody in the state will face snow showers, blowing snow and crashing temperatures this afternoon. 

Snowing pretty hard this morning along Route 
105 in Berkshire, Vermont on this traffic cam

Similar to early Tuesday, such an abrupt cold front can create dangerous snow squalls. Tuesday's squalls focused o the north, and the weakened somewhat by the time they hit southern Vermont. 

Today will be different, with the squalls most likely in the south, mostly south of a line roughly from Middlebury to Wells River,  The National Weather Service in Burlington says they are less likely north of Route 2.   . 

It'll get gusty everywhere, with the strongest winds in the southern half of Vermont, so the blowing snow will probably be worse there. 

The snow showers will continue all day statewide into the early evening, so unlike your drive home Tuesday, today's will be tricky, too. 

Total predicted snowfall hasn't changed much since yesterday. Pretty much everybody gets two to five inches, including what already fell overnight. Most of the ski resorts should see at least six inches of new fluff.

TOMORROW/FRIDAY

Expected snowfall between this morning and 
Saturday morning. Doesn't include what we got
overnight, but does include predicted snowfall
today and Friday. 

We get a brief break in the snow, but it'll be cold.  We'll start out windy and nippy in the morning with temperatures within a few degrees of 0.  The wind will diminish as clouds increase during the day and it gets up to about 20 degrees, so better by afternoon.

Breaking the rules again, temperatures will keep heading slowly upward Thursday night instead of falling like they're supposed to. 

Friday, it'll be warm again with a little snow. Temperatures should get into the 30s.  The pattern this winter has been for light, fluffy snowfalls. Friday will be a little different. 

We probably won't get much snow, as current forecasts call for maybe one or two inches. But it'll be a wetter, heavier snow than we've gotten used to lately.  

The exact path of Friday's little event is still questionable, so expect some shifts in the forecast.

The temperature roller coaster will continue, though, as we go back in the deep freeze Saturday. (Highs in the low teens, morning readings within a couple degrees of zero. Sunday warms up again, and that continues on Monday when it might actually rain for awhile instead of snow. Then, next Tuesday, it gets pretty cold again. 

On and on it goes.