Winter Storm — Eastern Rutland, Vermont

2022-02-03 to 2022-02-04 · Eastern Rutland, Vermont

Event narrative

Total snowfall ranged from 8 to 12 inches with much of this falling in the late evening of February 3rd to around daybreak on February 4th. In extreme southern portions, freezing rain and sleet were prevalent through the early morning hours with some ice accumulation as well.

Wider weather episode

An arctic front draped across the VT-Canadian border during the morning of February 3rd and slowly drifted south across VT during the day and evening hours before temporarily stalling along the VT/MA border until the afternoon of February 4th. Light precipitation moved across VT during the morning of February 3rd morning, initially falling as light rain before changing primarily to light snow during the afternoon for much of VT except the southern four counties.

During the late evening and overnight hours of February 3rd into the midday hours of February 4th, a series of weak low pressure areas moved northeast along the aforementioned boundary as this boundary slowly draped south along the VT/MA border. Moderate to heavy snow at times (>1 inch/hr) moved across much of VT during the night of February 3rd into midday of February 4th. Meanwhile in southern Rutland and southern Windsor counties, especially further south toward the MA border, freezing rain and sleet fell until the early morning hours of the 4th with some icing and ice/snow weighted trees causing some power outages.

Storm total snowfall ranged from 4 to 8 inches across the extreme southern portions of Windsor and Rutland counties where sleet and ice were prevalent as well to 12 to 16 inches elsewhere across central and northern VT.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 995762. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.