Latest Vermont Storm Behaved As Expected; Busy Pattern Ahead, No Rest For The Storm-Weary

The sun emerges as the last of the overnight snowflakes
fall in St. Albans, Vermont this morning. We only 
received 2.1 inches of new snow, but there's plenty
of reports of near eight inches in southern Vermont. 

 The snow in Vermont was just tapering off as of 8 a.m. this morning, and glimpses of blue sky were visible through the last remaining snowflakes in the air. 

Road crews are busily clearing the highways, though most of them remained snow-covered and slippery as of 8 a.m. They'll keep improving through the morning. 

I noticed on traffic cams the roads near ski areas seemed particularly busy. No surprise there, given the great conditions the past few weeks of winter weather have provided. 

As promised, the snow focused on southern Vermont, though everybody got some. 

Snow reports were just coming in, but the six-inch plus totals look pretty widespread all the way to central Vermont. The biggest totals I've seen so far are 9 inches in Tunbridge, and 8.5 inches in West Addison. I saw quite a few eight inch totals in southern Vermont. 

Lighter snow fell roughly in line with expectations further north. I measured just 2.1 inches here in St. Albans. Burlington looks like it will come in with about 2.5 inches of new snow. It also looks like the Northeast Kingdom got about two to as much as three inches of snow. 

TODAY

Traffic cam caught a line of vehicles following a 
Vermont state snowplow up Route 108 in Stowe.
I bet ski resorts in the state are anticipating
a very busy Sunday. 

As promised earlier, we have a nice one coming up.  It won't be wall to wall sunshine as clouds seem like they want to hang around most of the day. But it will be bright and the sun will be out off and on. Bring those shades!  

Even better, we're starting off today relatively mild and will stay that way.  It was near 20 degrees for pretty much all of us early this morning and we'll make it into the upper 20s this afternoon, and the wind will stay pretty light. 

A few extra snow showers or flurries might appear later this afternoon and evening, but they'll just make the air seem that much prettier. 

EARLY WEEK

Back to the relatively quiet and cold weather we've seen all winter, at least between our mid-sized storms. It will be a little chillier than average for this time of year, with highs in the teens to low 20s, and lows in the single numbers. Cold spots go below zero again.

There will be hints of snow here and there, especially on Tuesday when a couple of weak reinforcing cold fronts come down from Quebec and blow through here. That'll set off some snow showers. We might have to watch Tuesday afternoon and evening for some heavier snow showers that could mess with the afternoon commute. We'll see and update as needed.

THURSDAY STORM

This one is already giving headaches to Vermont meteorologists.  It's actually two storms coming at us at once. One of the storms will go by just to our northwest, the other will scoot by to our south across lower New England in tandem with the more northern one. 

The question is, which of the two will be stronger. If the northern one flexes its muscles, it'll get warmer and might we'll  have to deal with a snow to freezing rain and schmutz scenario. As of this morning, the stronger northern storm is beginning to look more likely. 

If trends reverse and the southern storm wins out, it'll just snow. 

It's too soon to say how much of anything we might get out of the Thursday thing, so I guess we'll wait on updates for this one, too.

Yet another storm looks like it will sweep by next Sunday. It's too soon to say whether that one will hit us in Vermont, or go by too far to the south to give us much of anything. It's a waiting game to find out what's going on with all these storms, I guess. 

Meanwhile, live in the day. Don't worry about the rest of the week.  Just go out and play in the really beautiful snow out there today.