JRWeather Winter Storm Warning In Effect Until 5AM Thursday; JRWeather Winter Weather Advisory In Effect Until 5AM Thursday...
JRWeather WINTER STORM WARNING
JRWeather continues a Winter Storm Warning for Orleans, Essex, Lamoille, Caledonia, Washington, Eastern Franklin, and Eastern Chittenden Counties in Vermont, and St. Lawrence, Franklin, and Western Clinton Counties in New York Until 5AM Thursday.
Light to occasionally moderate snow will continue, but gradually taper off overnight. Additional snow accumulations will range from 1-3 inches. This will bring snow totals in the 6-10 inch range across the St. Lawrence Valley of Northern New York, The Northeast Kingdom, and the Western Slopes of the Northern Green Mountains in Vermont. With the lower amounts falling in Vermont, and the higher amounts falling in the St. Lawrence Valley of New York.
A Winter Storm Warning is issued when severe winter weather is likely. In this case the Winter Storm Warning is for moderate to heavy amounts of snow, and light ice accumulations. Travel will continue to be hazardous overnight, but should gradual become better by the early morning hours across much of the area. If traveling, use extreme caution.
JRWeather WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY
JRWeather has issued a Winter Weather for Rutland, Windsor, Bennington, Windham, Addison, Orange, Grand Isle, Western Franklin, and Western Chittenden Counties In Vermont, and Essex, and Eastern Clinton County in New York Until 3AM Thursday.
Light snow with an occasional moderate burst will continue the next several hours, before tapering off to very light and scattered snow showers/ flurries Thursday Morning. Additional snowfall of a Dusting - 2 inches is likely by 3AM. This will bring total snow accumulations in the 4-7 inch range across much of the region. Some lower amounts may be found in the immediate Champlain Valley, and across Southern Vermont.
A Winter Weather Advisory is issued when significant but not severe winter weather is imminent or occurring. In this case the the Winter Weather Advisory is for light to moderate amounts of snow, with light icing. Travel will continue to be hazardous overnight but begin to improve by Thursday morning, if your traveling use caution.
DISCUSSION
A fall or spring like storm sure can happen in January. Its suprising how the weather has been so crazy the past several years. If this storm were to occur a couple decades ago, or heck even as little as a decade ago, I gurantee the track of the storm, and the snow amounts would have been much different. We would have seen a 6-12"+ storm. But coulda, woulda, shoulda doesnt matter.
This storm, was like I said, a fall or sping type storm, as far as the accumulations went. It was elevation dependent, for the most part. The Champlain Valley of Vermont has seen 2-4 inches so far, but in the Northern Adirondack mountains, 3-6 inches of snow fell, and ofcourse the always trapped in cold St. Lawrence Valley, and nearby Adirondack Western slope areas currently have 4-7 inches of snow. Additional snowfall amounts will range from a dusting to as much as 3 inches with locally higher amounts. Especially across the Western Slopes of the Northern Adirondack Mountains, and Western Slopes of the Northern Green Mountains. I will continue the Warnings, and Advisories until there expire at 5AM. After 5AM light snow showers/ flurries will still occur across much of the region, but no significant accumulations are expected after 5AM. The western slope areas however could see an additional 1-3 inches by mid-afternoon, but these accumulations will only be light, and confined to the upslope areas, and there is no need to continue a warning for an event by then that would be 30-36 hours long.
I am headed to bed, because I have to get up for work in about 6 hours. Not to mention I am going to be keeping and eye on the next system, which if the NAM model verifies, I will need to issue a Winter Storm Watch in about 24-36 hours for at least Southern Vermont, if Not Central Vermont. But we will wait for more model information before we write that in stone. Also as stated a couple blogs ago, that bonefide arctic air still looks to move in and stick around for a while, starting the beginning of next week. Stay tuned, and have yourself a goodnight!
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