Wednesday, April 24, 2024

Early spring colors in Huntington Center

Morning Observation:

This morning in Huntington at 7:30AM it’s currently a balmy 50 degrees under cloudy skies. Winds are calm. Relative humidity is 69%, dewpoint 40, barometric pressure 29.72”. Yesterday’s high was 69, and yesterday’s low was 31. The overnight low got down to 50.

This morning in North Hero it’s currently 45 degrees and raining lightly under overcast skies. Winds are calm. Relative humidity is 91%, dewpoint 43, barometric pressure 29.72”. We picked up 0.11” of rain so far today. Yesterday’s high was 61, and yesterday’s low was 41. The overnight low got down to 45.

Forecast Discussion:

Morning radar imagery shows a trough of low pressure stretching along the St. Lawrence river with a line of shower extending along it. These showers are making their way into Vermont at this hour. Daytime highs are expected to top out this morning and drop through the day as a sharp cold front swings through changing rain over to snow showers by this afternoon. Not much accumulation is expected given the warm antecedent temperatures—maybe a dusting above 1000′ with perhaps an inch over higher mountain summits. Precipitation is expected to come to an end quickly later this evening with skies clearing as cool high pressure moves in. Dry conditions will round out the week with highs on Thursday in the mid 40s and in the upper 50s to near 60 on Friday under sunny skies. Most of Saturday is looking dry at this point with a chance of showers arriving Saturday night and into Sunday as a series of weak troughs swing through. Temperatures are expected to be on the increase through the weekend with highs in the low 60s Saturday, mid 60s on Sunday, and pushing 70 on Monday.

3-Day Forecast:

We’ll see cloudy skies today with rain showers before 5:00PM, then a slight chance of rain and snow showers. Temperature will top out around 50 this morning and fall to around 36 by 5:00PM. Winds will be southwesterly 7-13 mph becoming northerly in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 100% with little or no snow accumulation expected. Tonight should start out mostly cloudy then gradually become clear with a low around 23 and north winds 7-13 mph.

Thursday should be sunny and cool with a high near 46 and northwest winds 7-9 mph. Thursday night should be clear with a low around 26 and north winds around 5 mph becoming calm in the evening.

Friday should be sunny with a high near 57 and calm winds becoming westerly around 5 mph in the afternoon. Friday night should be mostly clear with a low around 33 and light and variable winds becoming southeasterly around 5 mph after midnight.

Almanac:

Last year on this date in Huntington we had a high of 47 and a low of 41. We picked up 0.36″ of rain.
Last year in North Hero we had a high of 49 and a low of 42. We picked up 0.15″ of rain.

Burlington averages for this date are a low of 40 and a high of 60.
The record low was 25 in 1993.
The record high was 82 in 1942.

The Lake Champlain lake level in Burlington is 98.42′.
The water temperature is 44˚.
Last year’s lake level was at 98.25′.

The Mt. Mansfield snow stake depth is 59″.
The average depth for this date is 56″.

Mt. Washington Summit Conditions
Current Temperature: 29˚
Winds are out of the west at 35 gusting to 45 mph
24 hr Precipitation: 0
Visibility: less than 1/16 mile in freezing fog

Sky Notes:

Sunrise: 5:52AM
Sunset: 7:48PM
Length of day: 13:55:30
Today will be 2:47 longer than yesterday.

The Moon is waning gibbous, 15 days old with 99% illumination.
Moonrise: 8:55PM
Moonset: 5:56AM

About Today’s Photo:

I love the subtle colors of this time of year with the reds and pinks of maple blossoms blushing the hillsides and the grass just beginning to green. In this view from Huntington Center, Bald hill rises to the left with Little Baldy to the right and Camel’s Hump in the center.