Tuesday Evening Vermont Snow Forecast Update: Decent Dump In Green Mountains, Travel Trouble Wednesday

Through Friday morning, the next round of snow will
really pile up in the Green Mountains. Yellow shading
is six inches or more, orange is eight inches or more
Much of Vermont is under a winter weather 
advisory for three to seven inches of snow,
mostly during the day tomorrow. 

 I'm shooting out a little update on our next bout of Vermont winter weather, due tomorrow. Mainly because there are some new snow alerts up. 

This isn't exactly storm of the century. I don't want to hype it too much. But modest storms like this, typical for a Vermont winter, are still enough to raise a few alarm bells if you're going to drive anywhere tomorrow. 

A winter weather advisory is now up for most of Vermont. It's easier to tell you who's not in the advisory. Those not-in-the-advisory places are the Champlain Valley, the lower Connecticut River valley and far northern Vermont. 

The places in the advisory should expect to see three to seven inches of snow between 7 a.m. Wednesday and 1 a.m. Thursday. 

The Champlain Valley and Connecticut Valley should see two or three inches of snow. That'll still be easily enough to interfere the road conditions

The timing of this storm is - once again - not great. The snow will start just in time for the morning commute, which will mess up your trip to work. The snow will increase in intensity, with rates of up to one inch an hour in some places roughly between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. 

It's still looking like it will warm up in the afternoon, too, so the snow will turn kind of wet and heavy in the lower elevations. That's a double-edged sword. On a few of the main highways, that might help keep snow from piling up on the pavement too much. On the other hand, wet snow can pack down down into slippery ice, making things all the worse.

It looks like the warmest part of the day might come in the late afternoon or evening. Although some of the banana belt  valleys might see a few rain drops mixed with the snow, pretty much everybody will still be snowing. 

So, you might still run into trouble on your way back home from work. The roads will probably still be iffy. 

During the main storm tomorrow, the lightest snow might be in far northern Vermont.  The people who love to brag about their never-ending dumps of snow might briefly shut up as they might be a little left out at first.

However, those northern areas will make up for it late tomorrow night through Thursday night. It'll be the usual upslope snows in the central and northern Green Mountains. Again, this usually happens after a storm leaves the Green Mountain State.

The ski areas are going to win again. Between early tomorrow morning and Friday morning, a lot of Vermont's ski areas could see another eight to 12 inches of snow, on top of the riches of white powder they've already gotten over the past few weeks. The Jay Peak braggarts will be back, and other ski areas will be listening to their cash registers overwork themselves. 

No complaints from me! 

Since it will turn cold again for at least a week after tomorrow's "heat wave,"  that snow should stick around. We're also still looking at the risk of some pretty intense cold Sunday night through Tuesday morning.