Winter Weather in Orleans, Vermont

An automobile accident involving two cars occured on Shattuck Hill Road in Derby during the late morning. It resulted in two fatalities and one injury.

Low pressure moved from the Great Lakes across southeast Canada on the 11th. An associated warm front lifted northeast across New England and delivered warmer, moist air above the surface (several thousand feet) that traveled over sub-freezing temperatures at the surface. This produced light precipitation in the form of freezing rain along and east of the spine of the Green Mountains of Vermont during the morning of January 11th.

Although ice accumulations were minimal, freezing rain created hazardous driving conditions that resulted in numerous vehicle accidents from eastern Rutland and Windsor counties in southern Vermont to the Canadian border, including a fatal accident in Derby (Orleans county).