"Meh" Storm Coming To Vermont Continues Very Changeable Weather Pattern

Here's that familiar National Weather Service snowfall prediction
map. This one is for late tonight and tomorrow and depicts
not such a big storm.  Most areas will have two to five inches
 of snow Yellow areas could get up to six inches. 

If you have work or fun do outside in the snow in Vermont, today's your day.

The rest of the day will be mild, and the sun will be out at least from time to time. What's not to like?

Besides, we have some see-sawing weather coming up, and you never know when will be the next good outdoor day.

The next storm, the one I explained yesterday, is making lots of headlines as it continues the flooding and some severe weather in the Southeast.  

There's quite a moisture feed into the storm in the Gulf Coast states and Tennessee and Ohio valleys with this one.

When the storm races toward New England tonight and tomorrow, that moisture feed won't be so hot this far north, so we can expect just a small scale storm.

There are winter weather advisories up in Vermont for areas away from the broad valleys, like parts of the Champlain and pieces of the Connecticut Valley.  In those valleys, forecasters are expecting two to four inches of snow late tonight and tomorrow.  The winter weather advisory zones are in for three to six inches of snow, as it looks now.

So, not a monster storm like last week, but one in which you will have to deal with.  Which means cleaning the snow off your car and driving carefully and slowly on potentially snow covered roads during the morning commute.

In far southern Vermont, the supply of moisture will be a little better with this storm than further north. However, there's a good chance that down in Bennington and Windham counties, some of this stuff will mix with sleet, freezing rain and/or rain. So it will be distinctly messier the further south you go in the Green Mountain State on Thursday.

The precipitation will tend to lighten up in the afternoon, but that's when temperatures will also start to drop.  It's the seesaw I talked about at the start of this here blog thingy.

There's a quick shot of Arctic air coming in, much like last week. That means zero degree temperatures by Friday morning and some wind chill problems, too. High temperatures won't get out of the single digits Friday afternoon, and then most of us will be between 10 and 20 below for actual temperatures late Friday night and early Saturday morning. Brrrr!!

Then we go into a dramatic warmup. Temperatures Saturday night won't really go down, and we'll bounce back up into the 30s Sunday.  In the Champlain Valley, it will "warm up cold," as I like to call it. That means actual temperatures will be on the mild side, but gusty winds will make it feel a lot colder.

It looks like a little snow and rain will come through Sunday, but it won't amount to much. Then we get cold again for Monday, but not nearly as cold as it will be Friday.

Beyond that, it looks like a storm will go by to our west, bringing in warmth and mixed precipitation next Tuesday.  That's an iffy one.  Consider that's six days away, and a lot can happen to forecasts in that time period.

It's a relatively safe bet another bout of inclement weather will come through next Tuesday.  But I'm not committing to which form that might take.

This up an down weather is beginning to give me motion sickness.