OK, A Little Vermont Rain. That's A Start. More Coming?

I had to water my gardens way too early starting in May, shown here
and it looks like that state of affairs will continue. We got some rain
yesterday, and a little more is in the forecast, butI don't see anything
drought busting in the near future

The good news is that in parched, Burlington, Vermont, yesterday's rainfall just about doubled the amount that has fallen so far this month.

The bad news is that brings the month's total to just 0.70 so far, which is more than two inches on the light side.

Overall, Wednesday's rainfall was not impressive, but at least pretty much all of Vermont had a least a little wetting.

Generally less than a third of an inch fell in most places, but there was a nice little bullseye of nearly three quarters of an inch around Franklin County in northwest Vermont, where I live. A bit more rain likely fell after these observations were made Wednesday morning.

Looking ahead, for people who want a drought buster deluge, it's not in the cards. But at least there are decent chances of rain in the forecast.  We'll see if that pans out.

Today and Friday will be dry, aside from some isolated, light showers that won't amount to much of anything.

A relatively small storm coming in from the west for Saturday has a little oomph to it, so it has the potential to drop between a quarter and a half inch of rain, which would be nice.

This is one of those tricky systems to watch, because it can bring a package of surprisingly severe thunderstorms with it.  However, the expected track of this storm would take the severe weather south of us.

Instead, as it looks now at least, Saturday will really not be a nice summer day, with clouds, a little wind and frequent showers. Which to me, is great news for the soil moisture out there.

An upper level low is forecast to settle over us Sunday through Tuesday, giving us a decent chance of afternoo and evening showers all three days.  Again, these potential showers won't amount to a huge amount. However, like I keep saying, we'll take anything we can get at this point.

By the way, long range forecasts, always iffy I understand, call for dry, warm weather heading into early July.