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| Winooski River running high and muddy late this afternoon near Burlington, Vermont's Intervale. |
Oh, and flooding.
The flooding stayed minor, but it was widespread. Rivers were running high or in minor flood stage from the Canadian border to Massachusetts.
In most places, the water is beginning to recede, but a lot of roads near rivers and streams are still closed by high water.
Keep away from those roads until the water goes down and the road closure signs disappear. There might still be some roads closed tomorrow morning, so keep that in mind as you head to work or school.
Rainfall was in line with expectations, with around an inch in southern Vermont and a third to two thirds of an inch from about Route 4 north. That amount of rain doesn't normally cause flooding. It was the massive amount of snow melt that did it under those May-like temperatures over the weekend.
The rain kept going today because a wave of low pressure formed along the cold front that came through early today. Thankfully, the rain was light, so it had little if any effect on water levels. The rain also turned light snow north and mountains, which effective shut off any more water runoff.
I see the hill in back of my house in St. Albans, Vermont at about 1,100 feet in elevation is now white capped again, though the snow didn't stick in my yard at about 650 feet.
Tonight will be seasonably chilly as any light snow ends overnight and skies clear. Temperatures for virtually all of us will go below freezing, meaning the muddy morass on dirt roads might firm up a bit.
Not for long
A NEW HEAT WAVE
It's going to get unseasonably hot again for March for a few days.
Under sunny skies, it'll get to near 50 tomorrow, which is warmer than normal but not incredible for March.
By Wednesday, many of us will be in the mid 60s. Those won't be record highs, mostly because of the extreme warmth of the Great March Heat Wave of 2012, which gave us a week of summer-like weather.
Thursday also looks warm and windy, kind of like Sunday was, with temperatures in the low to mid 60s instead of the near 70 we had on Sunday .
A WINTRY SURPRISE?
The storm coming in Thursday night and Friday is looking more and more interesting. It's beginning to appear that it won't be a simple cold front that will push some rain through and then much colder temperatures.
It's beginning to look like a strong wave of low pressure could form along the front and become a pretty impressive nor'easter. If that happens, heavy rain could turn to heavy wet snow later Thursday night and Friday.
Too soon to know the details but we could either receive enough rain to cause new flooding, or we could see a very heavy, wet late season snowstorm, Or something between those two extremes,
We'll have to keep an eye on this weird one closely. Watch this space for more details as we get updates this week.
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