EAST HARDWICK – Temperatures plummeted Friday night and Saturday night under strong radiational cooling, with low temperatures at this station reaching 28 degrees Saturday morning and 25 degrees Sunday morning. Effectively, this was a killing freeze in this local hollow. Hardwick came in with 32 degrees and Craftsbury Common reported[Read More…]
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No Substantial Precipitation In Sight; Progressing From Mild To Cool
EAST HARDWICK – Remember the days of noting how often it rained during the weekends as the weather warmed up and spring was underway? Rarely are we complaining that is the case now, but we still see a shower every now and then on a weekend day. That was the[Read More…]
Cool, dry conditions persist for another week
EAST HARDWICK – Some rain appeared in our neck of the woods over the weekend, thanks to an upper-level disturbance that brought a round of showers and thunderstorms midday Saturday and followed through with some sporadic showers on Sunday afternoon. Total rainfall in East Hardwick amounted to 1.11”, with nearby[Read More…]
Periods of showers in the forecast; turning colder
EAST HARDWICK – Conditions are partly sunny looking outside this Tuesday morning, following a Labor Day that featured some clouds from an approaching disturbance to our south. Overnights have been cool with low temperatures falling into the 40s, and highs reaching up to 80 degrees on Labor Day, following several days[Read More…]
Much cooler by late week; few showers as well
EAST HARDWICK – Another week of August, another week we’re struggling to play catch-up with some desperately needed precipitation. Total rainfall amounts from August 18 through August 25 ranged from one tenth to one half of an inch. This leaves us still two inches of rainfall short for the month.[Read More…]
Some precipitation to begin, end forecast
EAST HARDWICK – After another brief period of warmth during the middle of last week, the onion is starting to peel a bit to give us a preview of the fall-like conditions that will be more consistent in our future. The first frontal passage on Thursday led to a drop[Read More…]
Small Amounts of Rain and Cooler Conditions
EAST HARDWICK – A stretch of fair weather with moderating temperatures was the primary theme for the previous forecast period. Little in the way of rainfall accumulated across a large portion of our forecast area in the Lamoille and Winooski River headwaters. Less than a tenth of an inch of[Read More…]
Fall-Like Forecast Period; Some Warming By Sunday
EAST HARDWICK — The calendar is showing July, but the upcoming forecast period will quickly transition to conditions that feel like mid-September. This comes in the wake of a week where temperatures were all over the place, with some highs approaching 90 degrees and a comfortable night where lows dipped[Read More…]
Roller Coaster Ride of Temperatures; Seasonable by Weekend
EAST HARDWICK – Last week’s temperatures peaked in the upper 80s and low 90s on Thursday. The Route 14 weather station just west of Hardwick Lake reported a heat index of 96 degrees by afternoon. This heat occurred ahead of a cold front that brought multiple rounds of thunderstorms with[Read More…]
Showers, Thunderstorms Break Heat; Sunny Start to the Weekend
EAST HARDWICK – Conditions remained largely hot and humid this past week as we remained under the influence of an upper-level low with multiple waves serving as the focus for slow-moving scattered showers and thunderstorms. The variability in thunderstorm location and rainfall amounts is reflected in this week’s rainfall observations,[Read More…]
More Rain in the Forecast, Saturday Looks Sunny
EAST HARDWICK – Zero: that’s the precipitation amount observed at the East Hardwick rain gauge this weekend, marking an end to the persistently wet weather of several Saturdays and Sundays the past few months. It’s worth noting the weekends recently have still afforded some window of fair weather, but with[Read More…]
Fourth of July Weekend Starts Mild and Sunny; Some Rain Sunday
EAST HARDWICK – Part-two of the heat continued after the last week’s publishing deadline and multiple observing stations saw record highs on June 24. A record high temperature of 93 degrees was set in Montpelier, shattering the old record of 89 set in 1995. Similarly, St. Johnsbury broke its old[Read More…]
