A Little Snow Today In Vermont, Then A Short Mild Interval Until Thanksgiving

Some puffy clouds behind the trees on a Saturday that
gave us a chance to see some rare November Vermont sun

 The sun came out Saturday afternoon which was a nice diversion from the usual Vermont cloudy skies. 

The overcast has returned and as of 8:30 this morning, some light snow was getting ready to move in. 

Relax, though, this won't be a biggy. Light, occasional snow will come down today and tonight, and some of that snow will probably mix with a few cold rain drops. 

Accumulations will end up being a dusting for most of us, maybe an inch in a few places. Some of the ski areas could grab two, three, maybe even four inches. 

After that, we're in for a "warm" spell, but that's relative. Temperatures will be close to normal, with a spike to above normal readings on Wednesday. That's a change from most of this month. Saturday was the 14th day in a row in which it was cooler than average in Burlington. 

By "warmer" I only mean highs with a few degrees of 40 on Monday and Tuesday.  Nights will be mild, too. They'll stay in the mid and upper 20s for most of us, and in the low to mid 30s in the Champlain Valley. I know that seems chilly, but we're knocking on the door of December. You can't expect much. 

Snow is moving back in today but it will be light.
However, a few inches might pile up in the 
mountains by tomorrow morning. 

A modest storm will affect us Tuesday night and Wednesday, but it won't affect your plans for Thanksgiving travel much. 

Mostly because it will almost all come down as rain. That's a bummer for the ski areas, but the roads won't be glare ice, anyway. 

We won't get all that much rain, either, maybe a quarter to a third of an inch. There's still room for forecast adjustments, so it might end up being slightly different than that, but you get the picture. 

Thanksgiving itself will probably be blustery. A cold front will have come through early in the day. The cold air will sort of lag behind the front a bit. So we'll end up with average daytime temperatures, something close to 40 degrees. The wind will blast out of the west with gusts to 30 oe 35 mph.  A few scattered rain and snow showers will blow through from time to time. 

The northern and central Green Mountains have a shot at several inches of snow Thursday night and Friday as lake effect snow and somewhat moist west winds generate some pretty good snow showers in the high elevations 

Low elevations should have lighter snow showers Thanksgiving night and Friday. 

Enjoy the lull in weather excitement. It's still looking like the weather pattern will become rather volatile as we get into December. That means lots of potential storms to watch. To make things interesting, the first blast of true Arctic air looks to come into the U.S. around the first of the month. 

So far, at least, the worst of the frigid air looks like it might mostly stay to our west - hitting the Rockies and Plains hardest.