HARDWICK – Tranquil conditions returned early this week as the sun broke through the clouds and high temperatures approached 50°. Of course, the main weather feature of the previous forecast period was a significant winter storm on Saturday that turned out to be one of the largest snowfalls that we’ve[Read More…]
Tyler Molleur
Hit-and-Miss Snow Showers Welcome Spring
HARDWICK – Just as quickly as the snow returned, most of it melted during several days of rainfall over the past forecast period. We saw intermittent spurts of snow Sunday afternoon and evening into Monday night as a couple of weak disturbances passed, leaving an inch or two in their[Read More…]
Cooler and Seasonable Weather Returns
HARDWICK – We will be in the middle of another pendulum-swing Wednesday morning as the skies clear out and temperatures look to reach 50. This comes after a period of highly variable weather, which commenced in the middle of last week, with warmer temperatures and precipitation in the form of[Read More…]
Officer Seats Shuffle to Meet Needs, Budgets Working on Moving Targets
STANNARD — Driving along the unsuspecting and muddy Stannard Mountain Road on Tuesday morning would lead travelers to a sparse-appearing town center. This transformed for a few hours into a corridor lined with cars and a full parking lot near the town hall as 25 voters gathered for town business.[Read More…]
Warm Influence Sustained Through Week; Forecast Turns Murky by Sunday
by Tyler Molleur HARDWICK – Another record-shattering week in the books, as Tuesday of last week easily eliminated old records in several areas. It reached 55 degrees in Montpelier, breaking the former 52-degree record high from 2000. This week the warm air returned, and a record high of 57 was[Read More…]
Good Weekend for Sap Run
HARDWICK – What a difference a week makes. Several days of warm temperatures over the past week, combined with light to moderate rainfall continues to erode away at our snowpack which is already minimal for the season. Valley areas report patchy ground cover of snow, with areas from around 1,500[Read More…]
Warming, Some Precipitation
HARDWICK – Blustery and cool was the way the forecast period started out on Wednesday. We completely dodged an early-week snowstorm and made up for it heading into Thursday night and Friday as a clipper system and lingering mountain-effect snow showers racked up 4 to 8 inches of snow over[Read More…]
Weather Watch: Some Snow Makes a Return This Week
HARDWICK – Somehow the precipitation dodged us for the most part during the last forecast period, with the wettest parts of the region experiencing only up to two tenths of an inch of rainfall in heavier scattered showers on Saturday afternoon. We had more peeks of sun than originally anticipated,[Read More…]
Weather Watch: Seek the Sunshine: Clouds Return Friday
HARDWICK – There wasn’t much in terms of measurable precipitation in the last week, but that didn’t stop the clouds from persisting to create overcast skies for most of the forecast period. We ended up with a combination of rain and snow showers, with the snow amounting to just under[Read More…]
Slightly Warmer Air Will Arrive
HARDWICK – As expected, the past several days have been marked by a warm-up in temperatures that led to mixed precipitation at times on Thursday and Friday, with the primary precipitation type being rain as temperatures warmed to the upper 30s and near 40 during the day. Overnight temperatures barely[Read More…]
Weather Watch
HARDWICK – Seasonally cold air has slowly made its way into the area over the last week, culminating in subzero temperatures and even colder wind chills this past weekend. This also meant the last two higher-profile weather events featured precipitation falling as all snow, a significant departure from what we’ve[Read More…]