Tuesday Vermont Evening Update: 1-4 Inches New Snow Due, Ice In Far South

A short period of sunny weather today got me outside
to clean the two inches of snow we got yesterday from
my St. Albans, Vermont driveway. Looks like I'll
have another two or three inches to clear tomorrow. 

I figure we can use a Tuesday evening update on our little storm coming through overnight, since it is year another bout with winter weather. 

We're still on tonight for another burst of snow in northern and central Vermont tonight, with a messy mix in the far south overnight.    

The forecasts haven't changed much since this morning, so here's an overview 

The initial storm is coming at us from the southern Great Lakes, and is bringing a batch of warm air with it, mostly high up in the atmosphere, but not so much down where we live.   

The warm air aloft is coming at us from the south and west. So the Adirondacks and southern Vermont will see the most schmutz tonight. 

The balmy air up high still looks like it will get cut off at the pass as another storm forms off the coast of Maine. The original storm will fade away. 

Since the original storm from the Great Lakes will be fading, it'll lose its ability to transport that warm air deeper into Vermont.  The new storm will try to shove a little cold air at all levels of the atmosphere into North Country later tonight.   

The wind won't be that strong, so it'll be a slow process. But eventually, even far southern Vermont will turn to snow late tonight, at least as it looks now. 

We could see a little mix as far north as the zone between Route 4 and Route 2. But the further north you go, the lower the chance of ice and the greater the chance this will be all snow. 

Accumulations will run from 1 to 4 inches. Definitely not storm of the century. The lower amounts will be in the far south, where they'll have all that ice and sleet. Northern mountains could get the four inches. Most of us are in for two or three inches of new snow.

This won't be as light and fluffy as the stuff we got yesterday and last night. You'll need a little more muscle to clean it up than you did this morning. The good news is it won't be wet cement, either. 

Snow or a mix should start between 8 and 10 p.m. this evening. Maybe a bit earlier than that in far southwest Vermont, and a little later up in the Northeast Kingdom. 

Although the snow will be tapering off by the time tomorrow morning's commute comes around, the roads might still be kind of annoying. I noticed that people slid off Interstate 89 coming into Burlington this morning, despite the light amounts of snow we got, and the fact the road surface wasn't that bad.

So prepare for more of the same tomorrow. 

The light snow will keep dwindling during Wednesday morning, maybe mixing with a little drizzle or freezing drizzle.

I won't really get really far into what's coming this weekend in this evening's post. But the first round of precipitation looks to be rain on Friday. I still  have a lot of questions as to what will happen with a second storm Saturday and Sunday, so stay tuned for updates