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| Shower clouds seen bubbling up in St. Albans, Vermont Friday. The rainfall wasn't much, about a third of an inch, but we'll take anything we can get. |
Nationwide, it's easy to do this year, as the weather is unusually quiet. It's rather cool in parts of the eastern half of the nation. I don't know how beach time would work under these chilly breezes.
But there's not much in the way of big storms or extreme heat waves, or anything like that.
First of all, there's no hurricanes to be found anywhere in the Atlantic Ocean. That's strange for the Labor Day weekend. We're nearing the peak of hurricane season, and there's almost always something lurking out there this time of year.
On many Labor Day weekends, some part of the U.S. coast is getting hit by a hurricane, is being threatened by one or is just beginning to recover from a hit. Not this year.
The only thing out there is a disturbance coming off the west coast of Africa. There is some chance it could develop into a tropical storm in a few days. But this thing won't become a threat to anybody for several days, and might not amount to anything at all.
Also, no big outbreaks of severe thunderstorms are in the works this weekend anywhere in the U.S. There could be a few bad storms here and there in the Plains states through the weekend, but any strong storms would be few and far between.
We do have one weather problem going on, though. This has been the summer of flash floods in the United States, and that is continuing into the Labor Day weekend.
There has been flash flooding over the past day or two in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California, and in parts of New Mexico, Kansas and Arkansas.
More flash flooding could occur in Texas, New Mexico and the central Plains today and tomorrow.
A heat wave that broke record high temperatures in the West has faded for now, though the heat is continuing in British Columbia, Canada.
The eastern half of the U.S. is mostly cool for the season today, but a warming trend is starting so the it will be pleasant enough in most places in the East through the weekend
VERMONT WEEKEND
Some places in Vermont got some needed rain Friday. A few spots received as much or even more rain yesterday than they'd gotten all month.
Through Thursday, Montpelier had only 0.34 inches of rain in August. Friday, they got 0.28, almost doubling the meager amount so far this month.
A few places in western Vermont and over in New York received over a half inch of rain. But most places, like Burlington and here in St. Albans, had only about a third of an inch of precipitation Friday.
Southern Vermont missed out again. Bennington reported just 0.12 inches rain. Springfield logged just 0.02
For places south of Route 4, those sprinkles were the last rain they'll see until at least Thursday. So the drought will keep worsening there as we have another spell of dry, warm weather.
In the north, a large area of mostly light showers, with some embedded spots of moderate rain, was moving into northern Vermont this morning as activity rotates around a pool of upper level cool air just to our north over southern Quebec.
The rain won't amount to much. Maybe most towns north of Route 2 could see a few hundredth of an inch of rain. The clouds and rain will keep things cool across the north, as highs only reach the 60s.
Southern Vermont should stay at least partly sunny, with highs near 70.
For the rest of the weekend, both Sunday and Monday, we'll see sunshine and comfortable temperatures both days to bring summer to an unofficial close.
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