Vermont Mountains Buried In Snow, But Weather Now Going Quiet

We weren't able to get all of the flower pots and deck 
furniture put away before winter weather arrived a 
little over a week ago here in St. Albans, Vermont. 
There's still snow on the ground, and forecasts
indicate it won't melt away quickly. 

Most of the snow that kept falling and falling and falling on many of Vermont's mountains is finally pretty much over as of this morning. 

The snow depth near the top of Mount Mansfield reached 38 inches by late Monday afternoon, the deepest on record for the date.

 There have only been six other November dates since 1954 with more snow on the ground on than on Monday. 

Those six dates were all in the Novembers in 1990 and 2018.  

This doesn't predict what kind of winter we're going to have. In Burlington, the winter of 1990-91 was the ninth least snowiest  on record in Burlington. The winter of 2018-19 was the tenth snowiest on record, 

On Sunday and Monday, the mountains collected almost all the snow, with valleys pretty much avoiding almost everything. True, many towns in the Northeast Kingdom managed a few inches, but everyone outside of the Green Mountains and their western slopes.

On the western slopes, Underhill Center saw 9.8 inches of new snow, and Fletcher got 8 inches. Most places got less than an inch. 

The almost daily snows we've seen in the Vermont mountains are pretty much shutting off for awhile. 

Instead, we're going to have a probably sort of brief interlude of boring weather. Which is par for the course for November, and, frankly a bit of a relief from the admittedly badly needed storminess we've recently experienced.  Drought relief is still welcome. 

Actually, the whole nation is getting a break from recent storminess. Only modest storms will cross the United States for the next few days. 

For us, we'll have quiet weather today through Thursday. There might even be a little bit of sun each day, especially on Wednesday. How about that for a change?  

It's been chilly, and unfortunately, or fortunately, depending on your perspective, it's not going to warm up much over the next three days. It'll get to 40 degrees in some of the broader valleys, which I suppose is an improvement over the past week or so. 

If you still have snow on the ground, it's not going to go away quickly.

One of those "meh" storms will come through us here in Vermont around Friday. Since it will be somewhat warmer than it's been lately, most of the precipitation with this thing will come down as rain. Even in the mountains. 

This won't be a big storm at all, so no flooding, no drama. Just a little wet weather for the end of the week. 

Computer models have been hinting it might really warm up around Vermont in the closing days of November, at least for a little while. But some of those forecasts are backing off on that idea. I'm doubting we'll see any truly balmy late autumn weather in the foreseeable future. 

Meanwhile, we still have some uncertain signs of a return to more exciting weather once we get into December.  That just means a more active weather pattern. It's too soon to tell what "exciting" will mean once we get past the Thanksgiving weekend.