Champlain Valley Weather Discussion:
Its looking like some accumulating snow is likely for Tuesday afternoon into Wednesday afternoon, especially for the Western Slopes of the Green mountains, across Northern Vermont. This situation bears watching, due to the fact last time this set up occurred, widespread 10-16 inches of snow fell across much of Northern Vermont, with isolated amounts near 24 inches across portions of Eastern Franklin, Eastern Chittenden, and Western Orleans Counties. The Vermont side of the Champlain Valley had very interesting snow totals, while the Northern Champlain Valley received light snow amounts along the lake shore, on the order of 2-5 inches, the Central Champlain Valley received amounts on the order of 9-14 inches, with very light amounts across the Southern Champlain Valley, of a Trace-2 inches. The New York side of the Valley only received a Trace-2 inches, while the Western slopes of the Adirondack mountains in Northern New York received 3-6 inches.
With that in mind, I shall say once again, this system bears watching. At this point though, the overall setup appears to be further Northeast then the one that occurred in March of 2006. With this set up the heaviest snow should remain across Extreme Northern Vermont, with Warning criteria snow remaining across Maine, and perhaps into Northern New Hampshire. I have placed all of Franklin, Orleans, and Lamoille counties under a Winter Weather Advisory for the potential of 3-6 inches by Wednesday Afternoon. With such cold air in place this snow will be very light and fluffy, and wont take much to accumulate 3-6 inches. I feel that locally higher amounts are likely in the best upslope areas of the Northern Green mountains such as Jay Peak, and Stowe. Depending on the overall track of the storm more or lesser amounts are possible. This is a very tricky set up. Stay tuned for further updates.
There are no OFFICIAL alerts in effect from the National Weather Service at this time.
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