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| First snow of the season Saturday at the snow measuring stake near the summit of Mount Mansfield Vermont Photo by Scott Braaten via a National Weather Service post on Twitter |
As you noticed, it's more seasonable this weekend. But our normal fall weather will descend right into winter this week. By Thursday, highs will only be in the 30s, typical of early December.
That's quite a transition.
When weather patterns change, they do change don't they.?
We are stuck in chilly weather for awhile. As it stands now, it's likely there won't be a return to mild weather until maybe the closing days of the month. Oh sure, there might be a couple comfortable days thrown in, but it is going to like November for a couple weeks.
There will even be a little snow. The air flow will be from the northwest, so there won't be a lot of moisture around to play with. But repeated cold fronts will throw light rain and snow showers at us every couple of days for the next ten days or so. Wednesday's cold front is strong, so that will be our first chance to see snowflakes on Vermont's valley floors.
By the way, it's even colder and snowier elseewhere. It was snowing across quite a bit of South Dakota, Minnesota and northwestern Iowa this morning. Snow is in the forecast at points remarkably far south over the next couple of days. Parts of Kansas, western Oklahoma and the Texas panhandle are in for snow over the next 24 hours.
Record cold temperatures are expected by Monday in a stripe from Wyoming and South Dakota south to northern Texas.
This cold second half of October doesn't mean anything for what this winter will be like. It's really impossible to say whether this winter will be cold or warm, snowy or not.
If you like a foretaste of winter, this will be your week. If not, I bet we'll have some sort of Indian Summer before winter really sets in.
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