Strong Wind in Caledonia, Vermont

Several wind gusts in the 40-50 mph with the passage of the sharp cold front during the early morning hours. Some isolated to scattered power outages reported.

Strong low pressure moved into the Great Lakes on March 16th and into northern Quebec Canada by the morning of March 17th. This storm brought blizzard conditions across the MN,WI and the western Great Lakes while the sharp cold front brought severe weather outbreaks from TX/OK eastward to the Atlantic coast.

Strong southerly winds, ahead of the low pressure, during the early morning hours of March 16th brought 40 to 50 mph wind gusts across VT. A sharp cold front associated with the strong low pressure moved across VT during the early morning hours of March 17th a short duration of 40-50+ mph wind gusts that resulted in several reports of tree limbs/trees on utility lines causing 15,000 customers without power, mainly across the spine of the Green Mountains eastward.