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| After the rains in my back yard, St. Albans, Vermont on Tuesday. Got out there between the the rainfall Monday and today to get a little fall cleanup done Was nice to be in such beautiful surroundings. |
who hates our deep northern New England drought.
It won't be a huge dump of water, but any rain is good rain.
The best rain was of course on Monday. Final rainfall totals are in.
The best rains were along and just west of the central and northern Green Mountains, and in the northern Champlain Valley. Some of these totals were really impressive.
Nashville, which is a section of Jericho, Vermont was the big winner with 3.79 inches, though I did receive an unofficial report of 4.25 inches out of Georgia, Vermont.
Other big totals included 3.55 inches in Warren; 3.44 inches in Chittenden; 3.17 inches in Underhill and 3.16 inches in Hancock.
It was nice to see rivers with actual water in them after that rain.
TODAY
The amount of rain we'll see today won't come anywhere near what we saw Monday. The National Weather Service is going for maybe a tenth of an inch south of Route 9 near the Massachusetts border a quarter inch give or take between Route 9 and Route 2 and perhaps a third of an inch north of Route 2.
But that's broad brush. This is going to be a showery type thing, so some places will get extra rain, other places will miss out. Kind of like a summer cold front.
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| Total rainfall from Monday's storm. Heaviest rain was in the central and northern Green Mountains and northern Champlain Valley. A few spots got more than three inches of badly needed rain |
We even have a chance of a few thunderstorms mixed in. It's kind of a dynamic storm even if its moisture supply isn't huge. Since it's a little chilly, a few storms might feature a bit of small hail.
Don't worry, if you do see hail, it would be the size of peas, not Volkswagens. So nothing damaging or scary.
We've already seen some brief downpours in northwestern Vermont a little after dawn today. It's a sign the bulk of today's action will be between now and mid afternoon.
We'll see a lull late this afternoon through most of tomorrow morning. We'll only see widely scattered light showers.
Showers will pick up again tomorrow afternoon. They will be light, though. Just chilly and annoying. We'll be lucky to see another tenth of an inch of rain. It'll be cold enough on the Green Mountain summits for a little snow.
DRY TIMES AGAIN?
Unfortunately, we are yet to fully escape the weather pattern that encouraged this drought. Since at least August we have repeatedly had huge honking high pressure systems stall over us or in Quebec.
At first, on Friday and Saturday, it will stay generally cloudy, with maybe a sprinkle or mountain snow flurry or two. Then, nothing.
These highs have featured super dry air. They also deflect any storms that want to come our way, and eat up any moisture that wants to drift up toward northern New England.
We have yet another huge honking high that will set up shop over us and Quebec beginning Saturday. That'll keep us in Vermont dry for at least a week.
One cold front will try to approach us next Thursday but that high will probably make those go poof before they get here. Then the big honking high will get reinforced. So after the sprinkles this Friday or Saturday, expect no rain until at least November 1.
That's a full week without precipitation. We've had longer stretches. And since it's late fall, the sun won't dry us out as fast as it could in the summer and early autumn.
Plus, long range forecasts are somewhat encouraging, leaning toward above normal precipitation for at least a little while in early November.
The drought will linger for a long time yet. But fingers crossed, I'm hoping the drought peaked last week. Maybe we'll slowly improve.
The newest weekly U.S. Drought Monitor comes out tomorrow. It will reflect conditions through yesterday. I'll provide an update once it's available
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