TONIGHT: Variable clouds. Blustery and sharply colder. Accumulating snow squalls with white-outs and poor travel…winding down to isolated flurries late evening on. Accumulation 1 to locally 3”. A low 5 below to 5 above. Northwest winds 10 to 20 mph lowering wind chills.

TOMORROW: Scattered morning flurries followed by partly cloudy skies north, and mostly sunny Barre-Montpelier area south. Cold and blustery with lowered wind chills and blowing a drifting snow. A high around 15. Northwest winds 10 to 20 mph.

THURSDAY NIGHT: Partly cloudy. “Diamond dust” A low 5 below to 5 above. Northwest winds 10 mph.

FRIDAY: Morning clouds then mostly sunny & frigid. A high 10 to 15. Light northwest winds.

Looking further ahead…

FRIDAY NIGHT: Mostly clear in the evening with few more clouds overnight. A low 10 below to 5 above.

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SATURDAY: More sun than clouds. Frigid start. Beginning of a warming trend. A high in the mid 20s.

SUNDAY: Partly to mostly sunny. A low 10 to 15. A high 35 to 40.

MONDAY: Mostly sunny. A low 10 to 15. A high 40 to 45.

TUESDAY: Partly sunny. A low in the 20s. A high around 40.

Average lows ranging through upper single digits to mid teens, average highs 30 to 35.

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