That Ice Has Really Been Nasty Across New England The Past 24 Hours

A school bus slides down an icy hill in Massachusetts
 this morning. Icy roads greeted drivers last night and this
morning across New England. 

I had a lousy trip home from work between Burlington and St. Albans, Vermont last evening.

It was timed perfect. Just when it was time for me to leave work, a nice burst of fairly heavy sleet and freezing rain moved in.

What a slow commute! The roads were quite bad. Luckily, about 99 percent of my fellow motorists took this ice seriously, so there were no major incidents on my trip

Now, it's above freezing as of noon Tuesday in much of Vermont, though there's still freezing rain in parts of New Hampshire and Maine.  Check out the school bus video from this morning at the bottom of this post to understand how icy it was in Massachusetts this morning.

It'a a real messy Tuesday in January. The rain is heavy enough to make people watch those existing ice jams still there from the January 12 and 13 storm in New York and New England. This rain and thawing could be enough to shift the ice, or back up more water behind the jams.

This is especially true in southern and eastern New England, where the rain is heavier.

If you like ice, you're in luck. The rain will taper off later today and tonight. But, as advertised, there's another cold front on the way. The water from today's rain is going to re-freeze tonight and tomorrow. As has been the case most of this winter so far, it's going to be dicey and icy underfoot.

Frankly, it's a wonder I haven't smashed my head or broken my leg, I've been negotiating icy sidewalks and driveways so much.  With the temperatures swings and frequent mixed storms, this is one of the iciest winters I can remember. At least so far.

And guess what? More mixed precipitation seems a good bet toward this coming Sunday, and again toward the middle or end of next week.

Here's that video view from a window in Sutton, Massachusetts taken by Cherly Kearney Katz this morning as a school bus with kids inside didn't do well on a very skating rink-ish street there. Nobody was hurt, so that's good. The bus even continued on to school after the crash.