Good morning, I hope you're ready for Valentine's Day tomorrow. If you're not, well, good luck.
The week is shaping up to be a more typical winter week than we've had, well, than we've had most of the winter. Wait - what's a typical winter week? Well, forget what I just said.
Highs in the 20s today in the north and in the low 30s south, with a chance of flurries and snow showers. The flurries will be largely restricted to the mountains in the south. For the rest of the week, you'll find lows in the 20s, and highs in the 30s and 40s, with a scattered chance for snow showers and maybe some rain later in the week.
Here's the forecast discussion from our friends at the Fairbanks Museum in St. Johnsbury:
Bitter cold will relax markedly during the next 24 hours as the polar vortex retreats northward and high pressure shifts offshore with a resultant backing of the wind from northwest to west today, and to light southwest on Tuesday.
A warm front setting up across southern or central Vermont through northern New York later this afternoon and evening will produce clouds and some light snow showers overnight into Tuesday morning, mainly over the northern half of the state, but the next chance for significant precipitation won't come along until Thursday night.
And, on this date in weather history:
We were on the edge of the biggest arctic outbreak on record in the continental US on this date in 1899, so severe that below zero readings reached all the way to northern Florida! Here, a storm rode the edge of the cold, producing the Cold Storm of '99, as it was known, with temperatures of near zero, and 10-15 inches of snow.
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