After Rainy Tuesday, A Long-ish Vermont Dry Spell?

Areas of pretty heavy rain moved out of the southern half of Vermont by about noon today, but other showers, some with fairly heavy rain have blossomed across Vermont and northern New York.

A sunflower enjoys a bright day last Saturday in St. Albans, Vermont.
After some rain today, northern New England is in for a long
stretch of fair weather.   

It will be kind of hit and miss the rest of the day and this evening.  Pretty much everybody will get some rain. But some towns will get drenched, while others will just get a bit of precipitation.

There was a pretty heavy area of rain just south and east of Burlington at around 3:30, for instance, while it was just sprinkling around St. Albans.

A slow moving cold front is causing these showers. Since the front is moving at a crawl, showers have tended to move parallel to the weather system.

So we're getting some "training" showers, where one particular area gets hit by a series of storms that are traveling along one path, like boxcars being towed by a train engine.

Often, you get some nasty flash floods when you get training showers and storms. But this weather system isn't too dynamic. Also, the ground, for once, isn't totally saturated. That means some water can soak in.

I wouldn't rule out some local flash flooding today, especially in central and maybe southern Vermont that got quite a bit of rain earlier today.  And some urban areas could get some street flooding. But I think the overall risk is pretty low.

After this rain goes by, it looks like we're in for perhaps the longest stretch of dry weather we've seen this wet summer.

There will probably be a few light showers, especially in northern Vermont, northern New York and the rest of northern New England Wednesday. There are signs there could be a sprinkle Friday, too, but don't hold your breath on that one

Other than that, it doesn't look like it will rain again in Vermont until after Monday.

It will definitely feel like autumn on Wednesday with some clouds a chilly north wind and temperatures not getting out of the 60s. That will be the coldest its been since early June.

But summer is not over. It will warm up at least into the upper 70s over the weekend, and there are some signs it could be on the warm and fairly humid side next week.