TODAY: Mainly cloudy with a few flurries exiting this morning. Accumulating snow showers & a few intense squalls developing later this afternoon with white-outs and poor travel. Additional accumulation up to 2”. A high upper 20s to near 30. West to southwest winds pick up 10 to 20 mph late.

TONIGHT: Variable clouds. Blustery and sharply colder. Accumulating snow squalls with white-outs and poor travel…winding down overnight. Dusting to locally 3”. A low 5 below to 5 above. Northwest winds lowering wind chills.

THURSDAY: 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 mid to upper teens. Northwest winds 10 to 20 mph.

Looking further ahead…

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

FRIDAY: Morning clouds with Diamond dust then sunny and cold. A high just 10 to 15.

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SATURDAY: Some clouds in the morning then mostly sunny after a frigid start. A low 10 below to 5 above. A high 20 to 25.

SUNDAY: Partly to mostly sunny. Beginning of a warming trend. A low 5 to 10. A high 35 to 40.

MONDAY: Partly to mostly sunny. A low in the teens. A high 40 to 45.

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

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