Vermont Snow Finally Winding Down. More Than A Foot Many Places. Long Cold Spell To Continue

The view out my home office window in St. Albans,
Vermont as getting increasingly blocked by snow 
after todays snowstorm. 

As you surely noticed if you live here, it snowed lightly all day in Vermont, adding to the totals we talked about this morning. 

The snow has an incredible fluff factor, so seemingly, we had a lot more snow.  As the next few days go by, though, the snow that piled up should settle by several inches. 

Especially since, after this evening, very little if any new snow is on the way until at least next Saturday, and possibly beyond that. 

But the snow we have is sure as hell not going to melt. We have a lot more cold air coming. More on that in a minute. 

It's beginning to look like northern Vermont might have gotten a little more snow than the south, which is opposite of what was forecast. The following won't be final totals, since it was still snowing in most of Vermont. 

But so far, the biggest totals I've seen are 19 inches in Waterbury Center, 18 inches in Walden, 16 inches in Morrisville and 15 inches in Danville. 

As of 1 p.m in Burlington, they had collected 13.5 inches. And it kept snowing after that. Here where I am in St. Albans, I'm lagging behind a lot of places. As of 4:30 p.m, the storm total measurement was up to 10.2 inches. 

Even if you didn't like dealing with all the snow and the frigid temperatures, we in Vermont should thank our lucky stars. Of all the states affected by the huge winter storm that thrashed the U.S., Vermont was one of the few places where the storm probably did more good than harm. 

It's giving a great boost to the winter sports industry and tourism. And it's just a bit more water than will melt into the ground come spring. It'll help the growing season get off to a good start. 

LOOKING AHEAD

This snow isn't going to last much longer, if it hasn't already quit by the time you read this. Most of us should be done with it by 8 p.m. or so. If not sooner. 

Of course, if you're driving home from work or wherever this evening, the roads are still covered in snow statewide Obviously, take it slow. 

Since it's staying cold, the roads won't be pristine tomorrow morning, either. You'll need a little extra time to get to work because we'll still have snow on the roads. 

COLD WEATHER

We are by no means in the most intense cold wave on record here in Vermont, but it looks like it will turn out to be one of the longest lasting ones in quite a long time. 

The temperature fell below 20 degrees this past Friday in Burlington. If current forecasts holds, it won't make it to 20 again until maybe a week from now. I don't have time this afternoon, but by tomorrow morning I'll look up when the last time that happened. 

Overnight lows will stay near zero each night. Below zero in a lot of places. The cold should tend to intensify a bit Thursday, Friday and Saturday, when temperatures could go well below zero at night. 

At least it doesn't look as bad as Friday and Saturday, when some places got into the 20s below. 

By the way, I had wondered if anybody in Vermont made it to 30 below Saturday night. As far as I can tell, the answer is no, But East Haven got down to 29 below, so close. 

As I mentioned this morning, I'm hearing some buzz about a possible nor'easter toward next Sunday. and/or Monday Some of the computer models do suggest such a storm. So far at least, it seems the forecasts are trending too far east to give us much more than a worsening wind chill from north winds.

That prediction can become wildly different one way or another by the end of the week, so as always, we'll update as needed