More Vermont Storms In The Offing, And Some Of Us Got Woken Up Last Night

Thunderstorm clouds in South Burlington Wednesday. Will we
see additional photogenic skies this weekend? It all depends. 

We managed to get through Thursday without any storms, but that little weather front from Quebec and Ontario that wasn't supposed to amount to all that much packed a punch.

I'm sure many people got woken up by the storms that rolled through around or just after midnight last night. I certainly did. Besides the lightning and thunder, the storms produced heavy downpours and even some pockets of damage.

Trees blew down in Champlain, New York. The National Weather Service office in South Burlington, Vermont received pea-sized hailstones.  We were under a severe thunderstorm warning here in St. Albans, Vermont, where I am. No damage on my property, though.

Skies have basically cleared and we'll probably get through today without a storm.  In the Champlain and Connecticut River valleys, we have a shot of seeing our first 90 degree day of the summer. Iffy, but could happen.

Still, those potentially picturesque and noisy storms I've been talking about seem destined to make a return. As always, they'll be hit and miss, with some people getting a good storm over the next couple of days and other people getting next to nothing.

A complex of showers and thunderstorms from the upper Midwest will approach us tonight and go through after midnight and into Saturday morning. But this area of disturbed weather will be weakening as it comes through. We'll get some showers, and maybe a rumble of thunder out of it. It won't be as dramatic as last night.

What that disturbance does and how quickly it gets out of our hair Saturday morning will determine if we get a lot of new fun thunderstorms Saturday afternoon. A cold front will be coming through in the afternoon. If we get a decent amount of sun before it arrives, some nice thunderstorms could blossom.

If it stays cloudier, the chances of stronger storms will go down.

Further south, there's a decent chance of at least a few strong to severe thunderstorms in the southern half of New England.  Southern Vermont could get on that action, too, so we'll need to keep an eye on that.  More details should be available Saturday morning on where the best chances of rough weather might be.

Sunday could be interesting, too, and possibly picturesque again.  A pocket of very cold air aloft will move overhead on Sunday.  Meanwhile, this time of year the sun is as strong as it can get.

The contrast between the sun's warmth and the cold air above us will form billowing clouds and create lots of showers.  It remains to be seen whether this will manifiest itself in the form of pretty, tall clouds that create showers and thunderstorms, with sun and shadows creating a striking sky. Or  will it just give us a dull, cloudy day?

Will Sunday be a sky watching and photo day, or a quiet day to get work done indoors? It remains to be seen. In any event, there will be showers and maybe a couple thunderstorms around. Since the freezing level in the atmosphere is so low, there might be some small hail with a few storms. And it will be chilly on Sunday for this time of year.

Never fear, though. That's just a brief interruption to summer weather. It will turn warm again Monday as the cold pocket departs, and we'll have relatively toasty weather all of next week. And, depending on the timing of minor disturbances passing by, we might get a few more thunderstormson some days next week

for this time of year will move over