TONIGHT: Increasing clouds. A low single digits above zero. Light southeast winds.

TOMORROW: Partly to mostly cloudy and turning blustery. Occasional light snow developing in the afternoon. A dusting to 3” most toward Connecticut River Valley. A high upper teens to about 20. North winds picking up at 10 to 20 mph in the afternoon with some blowing and drifting.

THURSDAY NIGHT: Cloudy with off and on light snow but moderate at times near the northern Green Mountains-North East Kingdom highlands. Accumulations of 2 to locally 6” likely in the northern mountains. A low zero to 10 below. Northwest winds 10 to 20 mph with some blowing and drifting.

FRIDAY: Back into the ice box…Clouds with a few breaks of sun. Blustery at times lowering wind chills. Occasional light snow Barre-Montpelier area north…with a 1 to locally 3” most northern mountain areas. A high zero to 5 below. West to northwest winds 10 to 25 mph with higher gusts. Dangerous wind chills minus 30 to minus 45 degrees.

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FRIDAY NIGHT: Periods of very light snow with accumulations up to couple inches in the northern mountain areas. A low 10 to 20 below.

SATURDAY: Very frigid. Morning clouds and diamond dust flurries give way to lots of afternoon sun. Bitterly cold! Temperatures peaking around 10 below zero.

SUNDAY: Morning sun then high cloudiness. A low 20 to 35 below. A high around 10 above.

MONDAY: Overcast. Periods of light accumulating snow. A couple inches possible. Not so cold! A low 5 to 10. A high 25 to 30.

TUESDAY: Periods of light snow in the morning, exiting to flurries in the afternoon. A low in the 20s. A high around the freezing mark or 32 degrees.

Average lows 5 to 10. Normal highs mid 20s to around 30

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