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| People strolling on a nice autumn day yesterday in Georgia, Vermont. Mostly sunny weather will continue all week, but there will be some subtle day to day changes. |
Temperatures soared well into the 50s and winds were on the light side, making for a delightful day.
As previously advertised, this begins a stretch of mostly sunny weather that could last at least until next Monday. With a few little hiccups thrown in. Those hiccups won't make much of a different, though.
The overall pattern continues the same: Strong high pressure centered near northern New England and Quebec, with strong low pressure spinning off the Mid-Atlantic coast. That low pressure won't have a direct effect on us, but might influence temperatures a bit.
Also, the shape the big high pressure system will shift over time, influencing our temperatures. Eventually, a reinforcement of that giant bubble of high pressure will also lower our temperatures a bit. Eventually.
Here are the dailies
TODAY
The start of the workweek will be the warmest part of this sunny spell. As is typical with clear skies this time of year, the day started cold again - 20s in much of Vermont, 30s in the Champlain Valley.
The high today is stretched out between that storm off the coast, and another one up by Hudson Bay. That will set up a southwest winf flow. Highs should get to near 60 in many spots, low 60s in the warmer valleys.
TUESDAY
The high pressure will start to rebuild and strengthen over the Great Lakes as the storm near Hudson Bay takes off toward the Arctic. This will begin to set up a north wind that will gradually lower temperatures. This new arrangement looks like it could create a cold front of sorts that might spread some clouds around Vermont in the morning, but it should turn sunny. Highs should he well up into the 50s.
WEDNESDAY
The center of the strong high pressure will have moved to southern Quebec by Wednesday. The cool north flow will continue but barely. The proximity of the high will mean light winds. It also means a cold, frosty start to the day, with lows in the 25 to 32 degree range for most of us. Highs should reach the 50s again.
THURSDAY
The storm off the East Coast looks like it wants to contribute to a dip in the jet stream forming in far eastern Canada. That will eventually help tug a reinforcing high pressure system into Quebec. All this might spread a couple clouds our way and hold temperatures in the low to mid 50s.
FRIDAY
The models are still disagreeing on how cold it will get with that trough in eastern Canada and the cold high pressure system coming in behind it. The most pessimistic computer models would hold daytime temperatures in the mid 30s a mid 40s and we'd deal with a stiff north with along with some clouds and sprinkles and flurries.
Other models keep us partly sunny with highs in the 45 to 52 degree range. We'll wait and see how this resolves. But the chances of measurable precipitation are really low no matter which model you look at.
SATURDAY
As it looks now, strong high pressure will be centered right overhead in Vermont, or close to it. If that happens, look for another cold, frosty morning, followed by another sunny day with highs at least in the low to mid 50s/
SUNDAY
The high might slip just to our south, turning the very light winds to a southwesterly direction. If that happens, we could pop up into the low 60s again under sunny
BEYOND SUNDAY
It's hard to say how and when these persistent weather patterns break down, but we could start to see that early next week. For now, the next chance of any rain would be around Wednesday, October 28
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