Northern Vermont, Surrounding Areas Could Get Strong Boomers Later

The National Weather Service office
in South Burlington, Vermont posted
this photo of thunderstorms at
dawn today, as viewed from the
Burlington International Airport

Well, it's still humid out there for now, but at least a cold front is approaching that will give us some relief from this ickiness, starting tomorrow.

It won't exactly be cold behind the cold front, but humidity levels will go down a bit by tomorrow,  especially in northern sections of region, and temperatures will be close to normal for this time of year.  It'll still be vaguely humid, especially south, but not like it was yesterday, or is today.

Today, there might be some pretty strong thunderstorms ahead of this front this afternoon and evening.

As of 11 a.m., there was already a collection of decent-sized, but not severe thunderstorms heading toward the New York border from Quebec. A few more scattered storms were in the Connecticut River Valley, heading into New Hampshire.

This won't be a widespread severe outbreak by any means. NOAA's Storm Prediction Center has northern New York and the northern third or so of New England in a marginal risk zone for severe storms. 

That pretty much means that there will be isolated reports of wind damage from these storms, but not everybody will get blasted. Still, it's best to take non-severe storms seriously, too, because we might end up with quite a bit of dangerous cloud to ground lightning, and local torrential downpours.

We pretty much missed out on the rain yesterday, with just scattered showers and storms around. The next shot, after today, of any of us getting any decent rain comes Friday, when another cold front will approach.

Forecasters are pretty bullish on most of us getting a slug of rain. Nothing excessive, but still helpful. I'll believe it when I see it. We have frequently been "cheated" out of rain this summer, even when the setup for the storminess seemed pretty favorable at first.

Regardless of how much rain Friday's cold front brings us, it will be noticeably less humid over the weekend. Comfortable, actually, with near normal temperatures, which should be in the 70s to around 80 this time of year.

We're getting close to the end of summer, so I think you will see the general humid pattern we've been in for so long start to fade. There will be uncomfortably muggy days heading into September, but you'll notice some fresher days getting into the mix, too.

Looks like you survived the summer of 2018.