Two More Dry, Pleasant Vermont Spring Days Due, And We Might Get A Bonus Day Before Chilly Rain Sets In

Daffodils seen here enjoying a sunny Sunday 
afternoon in St. Albans, Vermont. They'll continue
to soak up the sun today and tomorrow before 
rainy, chilly weather arrives late in the wee. 

Sunday was another luscious spring day in Vermont, and the forecast has held. It was nice watching the daffodils soak up the warm sunshine while dancing in the breeze. Makes you almost forget about the long winter we just emerged from, huh? 

We've got two more such days for you today and tomorrow. And it turns out Wednesday might unexpectedly turn out OK, too!

The best day will be today. We''ll see lots of sunshine and temperatures way up in the 60s. Some of the warmer valleys will touch 70 degrees or so.  It will be cooler along the immediate shore of Lake Champlain as cool breezes come off the still pretty frigid lake.

The nights during this spell have been chilly. Morning lows for most of us across Vermont were in the 30s today. The nights will still be cool, but slightly milder than recent days. So, in the 40s for many of us overnight today. And Tuesday night..

I'm saying Tuesday won't be quite as nice as today, but I'll still grade it an A+.  The sunshine and warm temperatures will continue, but the winds will pick up. Especially in the Champlain Valley, where gusts from the south could reach 30 mph  in spots.

The progress of spring has been moving along nicely the past couple of days. The mild afternoons and the somewhat less cold mornings over the next couple of days will accelerate it even more. 

But not enough to stop this week's fire danger.  The dry grasses and weeds from last fall still predominate. The strong sun has quickly dried out the leaf litter on the floors of the forests. 

Even without that much wind, brush and woodland fires are breaking out. Between the morning of April 22 and 26 three new fires in Vermont burned an additional eleven acres or so in Vermont.  I don't think that figure includes anything that happened Sunday. The total acreage burned so far this year in Vermont is 154.8.

The fire danger remains high today, according to the Vermont Department of Forests, Parks and Recreation.  The danger from woodland and field blazes will go up much more tomorrow amid those gusty winds. So let's be careful out there, folks. 

TURNING WETTER. COLDER

 We've thought for days that rain would move in Wednesday. It turns out some showers coming at us on that day will fall apart before they get here because of the dry air.  At this point, it looks like Wednesday will turn our partly sunny and in the 60s, so pretty good! We might see a few sprinkles on Wednesday, but that's about it. 

The real turn comes Wednesday night and Thursday, when a strong disturbance creates some rain. The disturbance will turn our weather much colder, with highs Thursday only in the low 50s or so. 

After that, Friday and Saturday continue to look nippy, with highs only in the 40s with some low 50s i the warmer valleys south. Ugh.  There will be chances of mostly light showers during that time. And yes, some snow on the mountains. Mostly above 2,000 or 2,500 feet. That happens a lot this time of year, actually, but it's still annoying to know it's snowing somewhere in Vermont as we flip the calendar to May. 

The weather continues to look mostly cool and unsettled into the middle of May.  There might be a warmer day or two thrown in there, and some days will feature sone sun. But this gorgeous stretch of weather we're having now won't repeat itself for quite a long time to come. Enjoy it now.