Decent Vermont Overnight Rains Will Help With Dry Conditions, But Not Much New Rain In Forecast

A rose mallow bloom in St. Albans, Vermont seemed
happy with the overnight rain as it bloomed under
clearing skis this morning. 

As forecast, we had a nice rainy night across most of Vermont. 

It was too early as of this writing to have a complete listing of rainfall amounts, but it looks like everyone got a decent soaking except in the southeast corner of Vermont, all of which had been accurately forecast by the National Weather Service. 

Burlington received 0.74 inches, and my unofficial rain gauge in St. Albans collected just about the same amount.  Montpelier 0.45; St. Johnsbury, 0.57. 

Rutland is the big winner so far at 1.13 inches. Springfield had 0.56 inches. Bennington had just 0.38 inches.  I don't have reports from far southeast Vermont, but it doesn't look like it rained much there. 

Keene, New Hampshire, just 18 miles east of Brattleboro, had only 0.06 inches. Central New England largely missed out on this. 

Let's go on to the forecasts

TODAY

We woke up this morning with the rain gone, the weather fronts having rushed off to the east. Humidity peaked overnight, but it was starting to decrease as dawn broke. It was still a little muggy during the morning rush hour, but the end to that is near. 

Brisk west winds, sort of shifting from southwest to northwest as the day goes by, will flush the humidity out. Under partly sunny skies, we should get into the 70s to near 80 southeast.

As one last weak weather front comes through, the clouds might tend to increase a bit toward late afternoon and evening, especially north, and one or two very light showers might pop up. But most of us will stay dry. 

FRIDAY

Before dawn,  a push of drier air will clear skies. That might yield to some patchy fog in the valleys as the sun rises. Typical for September.

We'll have a noticeably cooler day. with highs only reaching to within a few degrees either side of 70. Nothing unusual. for this time of year. We've seen much colder weather this time of year, now that we're well into September. (The record for the coldest high temperature in Burlington on Friday is 54 degrees in 1917.)

We'll see lots of sunshine and lighter winds than we'll see today, so it'll be a very nice day. Maybe go apple picking or something?

Clear, calm conditions will drop temperatures into the 40s in most places by dawn Saturday. 

SATURDAY

Another gorgeous day. Patchy valley fog will once again accompany the early chill, but afternoon temperatures will rise well into the 70s. 

NEXT WEEK

We'll see a changeable period. A fast west to east flow will keep ridiculous, persistent and in some cases record late season heat and humidity mostly to the southern half the United States. Cold fronts will race by, not lingering long enough to give us much rain. 

Occasionally, the heat and humidity will try to sneak into the North Country, but that will get beaten back by the cold fronts. Timing when we might get any showers is tricky in this pattern.  It doesn't look like all that much rain will come out of all this.