"Snoliage" Day Past; Still Cold, Future Snow Threat Diminished

A bush in my back yard in St. Albans, Vermont gets dusted with
snow Wednesday morning. 

As of 8:15 this morning, most of the 0.7 inches of snow that fell on my St. Albans, Vermont property yesterday had melted.

The early shot of winter isn't quite over, as I noted a special weather statement from the National Weather Service in South Burlington alerting us to spotty freezing drizzle (ugh!) in the northeast quarter of the state.

Except in the Northeast Kingdom, yesterday's snowfall, while pretty, was not substantial. I did see a report of 5.1 inches in Derby Center and 4.5 inches in Holland, with a smattering of six inch totals over some high elevations.

Northern New Hampshire and Maine were the big "winners' in this storm. Upton, Maine had a foot of snow, and Berlin, New Hampshire was close with 11 inches.

Sugar maple leaves dusted in snow
yesterday in St. Albans, Vermont. 

Some New England ski areas are already in operation. Killington opened nearly a week ago. Mount  Snow in southern Vermont plan its earliest opening in its 64-year history this coming Saturday.

Also coming Saturday is that nor'easter type storm we've been talking about.  As forecasts keep getting adjusted, it doesn't look like it will be a huge snow producer, except possibly on the highest peaks.

It looks like there might be some snow and sleet at the onset of the storm Saturday, even on some valley floors. But warmish air will move in aloft, and we'll have a cold rain instead for most of Saturday night.

Another storm might get going midweek, but nobody's sure if it will come close enough to give us substantial precipitation, and what form that precipitation might take.

In any event, scroll through the photos of the "snoliage" yesterday in this post, because it does have its beauty. I even did a short pano of the snow falling around my house yesterday, which is included below.

The skies cleared for a time in the late afternoon, which quickly melted a lot of the snow, but added some to the beauty around me.

Snow meling in my garden in late afternoon sun yesterday amid
fall foliage.

The sun came out late Wednesday afternoon but my back deck in St.
Albans, Vermont was not as inviting as usual, given that it was
coated in snow 

Here's a very short video of the snow falling around my house in St. Albans, Vermont yesterday: