We Can Finally Stop Talking About Nor'easter, Vermont Rainfall Amounts Disappointing

One last satellite pic of our nor'easter from yesterdays.
That sort of circle feature just southeast of New
Jersey marked the center of the storm. 

The nor'easter we've been talking about for days is finally pulling away from the East Coast, so it's on to other weather issues. 

Before we go, we do of course have updates on what happened with that damn thing and the mess it left behind. 

An elderly woman died in New York City when high winds blew a solar panel off a building and it struck her. 

A small plane crashed onto a highway in Dartmouth, Massachusetts, killing the two occupants. It's still unclear whether the storm had anything to do with the incident, but it was windy and rainy at the time the plane crashed. 

In Sea Bright, New Jersey, about two dozen people had to be rescued when water surged onto Ocean Avenue during Monday's high tide and stranded drivers, Fox Weather reports. 

Other people had to be pulled out of storm surges in the Carolinas. A large tree crushed several cars in Queens, New York. 

It appears no additional homes fell into the waves at North Carolina's Outer Banks, but the storm surges and waves breached dunes and made already teetering homes appear even more ready to collapse into the water. 

As expected, shoreline flooding hit from the Virginia tidewater all the way to southern New England. 

VERMONT

Looking north from beneath the gloomy skies Monday
over St. Albans, Vermont you could see blue sky
in the far distance over Quebec. 

The nor'easter disappointed people in southern Vermont as it dumped less rain than originally hoped. 

Some areas south of Route 4 were expecting a half inch to an inch of drought-denting rains. Instead, most everyone had less than a quarter inch. 

Winds were gusty enough in a few spots in southern Vermont to set off some scattered power outages that affected about 600 home and businesses. 

Instead of a nice feed of moisture from the nor'easter, a  single band of showers limped north through Vermont while weakening Monday, which is why we didn't get our needed rain.

 The remnants of that band of rain stalled over far northern Vermont most of the day while slowly falling apart. So we had sprinkles, drizzles and gray clouds all day.  If you were under those clouds and sprinkles near the Canadian border, you could make out some blues skies far to the north in Quebec. 

Rainfall amounts north of Route 2 were around 0,05 inches or less,  in line with forecasts.  

Montpelier managed to get 0.22 inches, mostly from an area of light rain that moved over that area overnight and early this morning. 

A somewhat unexpected patch of showers was moving into northern Vermont around dawn today.  Some areas could see a tenth of an inch of rain by the time it clears out later this morning. I guess we'll take it. Better than nothing, I suppose. 

LOOKING AHEAD

Since it didn't rain much, the northern New England drought goes on, undeterred.  

 This afternoon should get a little nicer, with a few breaks in the clouds and temperatures sneaking up to a near normal high of around 60 degrees. 

A dry cold front will come through tonight, bringing us some chilly north winds Wednesday and Thursday.  

Our pesky nor'easter will be far out to sea both days, while another in a long series of dry honking big high pressure comes in from the west. The squeeze play between the two systems will give us those north winds. 

We might see gusts to 30 mph and the humidity those days will be pretty low. What little rain we got yesterday and this morning will evaporate pretty fast, so once again, we'll have to worry about brush fires again. Especially since those winds would spread anything that manages to start. 

Those chilly north winds will keep high temperatures Wednesday and Thursday to within a few degrees either side of 50. Nights will be at or below freezing for most of us. That shouldn't concern too many of us since our gardens are pretty much kaput anyway. 

Let's face it. The summer that extended into October this year is definitely over. 

It'll start to warm up a little toward Saturday. Our next shot at any decent rain would come Sunday or Monday. Stay tuned over the coming days to find out whether we actually get any rain out of the or whether it'll be another bust.