A (Needed) Rainy Interlude During An Awesome June

A gorgeous day in Vermont Sunday. And everytime the sun
threatens to last too long and dry things out
a rainstorm arrives. Perfect.  

Much of the Midwest is mired in torrential, flooding rain and the Southwest and California are praying for so much as a drop of rain in a historic drought.  The Mid-Atlantic states have had quite a bit of flooding lately, too.  

Meanwhile, I'm gloating because I live in a rare sweet spot in a season of weather extremes.

Here in Vermont, rainfall has been normal, and coming in installments that are not too big, not too small.

In between these rainy episodes, we've been getting days of perfect late spring and early summer, sunny weather.

Knock on wood, but so far, it's a Goldilocks kind of weather year in these parts.

Just when you think it's getting a little too dry, down comes the rain.  And so it is today.

As of today, we're coming off five days of sunshine and very low humidity, so the gardens are a bit dusty.

Rainfall so far in June has been right at normal, but the sunshine of the past five days has us looking to the skies for a bit of refresher.

Cue the clouds.  

A slow moving cold front is sliding into the Northeast. It doesn't look like we will have much severe weather in these parts, but it does look like it will rain pretty hard.  (Though a few scattered severe thunderstorms might crop up in the southern half of New England and Mid-Atlantic states on Wednesday.)

Here in Vermont, and most of the rest of the Northeast, we can expect one to two inches of rain out of this cold front. Some places might get a bit more. Although some of the heaviest downpours might cause a little street flooding and that kind of thing, there won't be anything super destructive.

Instead, gardens and crops will get another nice, perfect soaking, setting us up for another four or five days of sunny, dry, beautiful weather starting at the end of the week and into the weekend.

Eventually, the other shoe will drop and Vermont and surrounding areas will get some kind of extreme weather. Too hot, too cold, too wet, too dry.

But for now, we're enjoying some relatively "boring" weather, and we'll take it gladly.