· Messy and very windy storm blows into Vermont later this afternoon and into tonight before tracking our of the region tomorrow.

· Some glazing and treacherous travel likely east of Green Mountains where temperatures will remain sub-freezing and conditions terrible to go anywhere. This may start out at onset as a wintry mix.

· If you don’t have to go anywhere – stay home especially after about 2:30 to 3:30 PM this afternoon as precip comes in spotty/intermittent.

· Temperatures rise into the low and mid 40s overnight, then gradually make a fall during the day Tuesday but staying in the mid and upper 30s.

· Less active Weather Wednesday and first part of Thursday – before what could be a SIGNIFICANT SNOWFALL developing Thursday PM into Friday. More to come…this system evolved with colder air deeper low pressure ECMWF ensemble members were verifying this system in what could very well be the biggest snowfall here in Vermont in a few years. Stay tuned.

Freezing Rain Advisory this afternoon… through 10 PM this Evening East of the Greens excepting Windsor county.

TODAY: Increasingly cloudy later this morning. Periods of light freezing rain possibly starting out as a wintry mix with treacherous travel mid to late afternoon. Temperatures rising into the low 30s late today.Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph increasing this afternoon.

TONIGHT: Periods of light freezing rain this evening with treacherous travel…transitioning to all rain late evening into the overnight.Temperatures rising into the low to mid 40s overnight with areas of fog. South winds 10 to 25 mph with higher gusts across the hills this evening, shifting to southwesterly 10 to 20 mph overnight.

TUESDAY: Clouds and intervals of sun developing. Blustery and gradually colder. with Temperatures in the mid to upper 30s. West winds 10 to 20 mph.

Looking Further ahead…

TUESDAY NIGHT: Mostly cloudy with scattered mountains flurries. A low in the low to mid 20s.

WEDNESDAY: Lots of clouds mixing with intervals of sunshine. Chance for a few flurries. Temperatures falling into the mid to upper teens.

THURSDAY: Cloudy. A rising chance for snow. Snow possibly significant with several inches or more. A low zero to 10 above. A high 25 to 30.

FRIDAY: Chance for snow in the morning, tapering to scattered snow showers or flurries and blustery in the afternoon.Temperatures holding in the 20s.

Average lows upper single digits to low teens. Normal highs upper 20s to around 30.

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