One Of Wettest Aprils To End With Wet Start To May

Yep, that's snow! Webcam image this morning at dawn from the
Nashville section of Jericho, Vermont. 

As of early this morning, it was still raining a bit in Burlington, Vermont, and it's sodden out there.

By 5 a.m. this morning, Burlington has had 4.74 inches of rain and melted snow in April, enough for it to be the sixth wettest April on record.

I don't think we'll get enough new rain to take the #5 spot, and we certainly won't break the all-time April record of 7.88 inches set in 2011.

There was even some snow to talk about yesterday and last night in some of the high elevations of Vermont and especially New York, where the cold air from aloft was the toughest and strongest.

Not many reports have trickled in yet, but I do know it snowed all day yesterday in Saranac Lake, New York. A storm total of 5 inches was reported early this morning from an 1,100-foot elevation location in Marshfield, Vermont.

Early morning webcam images across Vermont show widespread snow cover above an elevation of 900 feet or so. It looks like about an inch or more in the Jericho area, and a couple inches around Brookfield, judging from the webcam images.

I saw a scrim of snow on the top of the hill in back of my house in St. Albans, Vermont, so I probably got some snow mixed with rain at my place while I slept last night. But I'll just say that since I didn't see it, it didn't happen.

Don't worry, the weather will turn markedly warmer this week.

Today will gradually get better. Light rain and drizzle this morning (with some higher elevations snow) will slowly taper off. It will still be chilly for the season this afternoon --- highs 48 to 55 across  most of the North Country, but that's a bit better than yesterday.

Traffic camera along Interstate 89 in Brookfield shows a snowy morning.

A few scattered light showers might linger into tonight and early Tuesday. But there will be increasing sun Tuesday with a dramatic warmup --- well into the 60s.

Wednesday, the peak of "heat wave" could bring us the first 80 degree reading of the season.

However, wet times are not over for us. A series of weather disturbances, then cold fronts will come in Thursday and Friday with showers and possible thunderstorms.

It won't rain all the time either day, but it will turn humid. (Yes, another sign of spring, the word "humid" has popped up again.)

Thursday's temperatures will probably be in the low 70s and the air will have a muggy feel to it. Some of the showers Thursday and Friday might come down quite hard. That means some areas could get another inch or more of rain at the end of the week.

I guess we don't have to worry about drought wilting our early season blooms. Of course, I can't predict how wet or dry the overall summer will be. We'll have to wait on that.

With all this rain, Lake Champlain is rising toward its 100 foot minor flood stage. As of late yesterday, it had another foot to go to reach that level. No guanantees that it will, but there's certainly a good chance of it.

The weather pattern does look pretty active for the first half of May but I can't tease out specifics of any storms beyond this coming week.