Winter Storm — Windsor, Vermont

2022-01-17 · Windsor, Vermont

Event narrative

Snowfall totals of 8 to 12 inches were common.

Wider weather episode

A long tracked and powerful winter storm, with a history from the Mississippi River valley through the southeast and north along the Appalachians into the northeast, impacted VT on January 17th. Snow moved into VT around midnight of January 17th with snowfall rates of 1-2 inches per hour at times during the morning, eventually ending by early afternoon with residual snow showers during the evening and night.

General snowfall accumulations in VT was 4 to 8 inches with the complexity of the storm due to its strength and strong low level jet accounted for mesoscale features of snowfall distribution with east-side upslope regions witnessing higher totals and west-side downwind communities witnessing less snowfall.

In addition these strong low-level easterly winds did cause some downslope wind gusts (in excess of 50 mph) in the foothills of the western slopes of the Green Mountains and in the higher terrain in northeast VT which resulted in scattered power outages.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 993024. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.