Heat, Dry Weather Still Over-Performing In Vermont; At Least Two More Torrid Days Coming Clear skies over Taylor Park in St. Albans, Vermont Sunday afternoon.  Yes, it was a nice summer day but HOT. And oddly dry for a  New Engla...

Matt's Weather Rapport: Oddly dry, over-performing heat wave continues on in #Vermont along with rest of New England, southern Quebec. Developing drought and fire danger, too. Details: matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/08/heat...

Lightning Doesn't Play! Some Examples A lightning strike in Ferrisburgh, Vermont in  August, 2023. Photo was taken through a windshield while I was inside a truck with windows ro...

Matt's Weather Rapport: Lighting doesn't play, and it's also weird. Some interesting recent lighting stories here: matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/08/ligh...

Heat Wave Has Arrived In Vermont/Northeast. Bad Through Wednesday The heat is expected to peak Tuesday, which this map depicts. Those spotty red zones include in Vermont, mean the it's hot enough to really ...

Matt's Weather Rapport; Heat wave in #Vermont already starting to over-perform as dry conditions/fire danger ramp up here and throughout New England and southeast Canada. Details: matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/08/heat...

90 degrees in Burlington #Vermont today, the 13th day this year that it's gotten that hot. At least three more 90 degree afternoons in the forecast.

Just Calm Down Already About Those Wild Hurricane Forecasts Despite the hype, we'll go to the National Hurricane  Center. There's a low chance (in yellow) a tropical storm might form in the central At...

Matt's Weather Rapport; There's a lot of #hurricane clickbait out there, with people highlighting extreme model runs. It's all bullcrap except that it's a sign that peak hurricane season is arriving, Details: matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/08/just...

Hot, Dry Vermont Forecast Looks Even Worse. Some Places Might See No Rain For At Least A Week Plants are wilting in gardens. This photo was taken after I rescued a patch of white phlox that had seriously wilted in the dry weather. Thi...

Matt's Weather Rapport: Dry forecast for #Vermont and New England worsens. Heat wave continues to loom, too. Burlington's 87 degrees Friday will be the "coldest" day until at least next Wednesday. Details: matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/08/hot-...

Hawaii Second Anniversary Of Deadly Wildfire: Slow Recovery In Destroyed Lahaina A sign of hope in Lahaina, Hawaii, destroyed by a deadly wildfire on  this date in 2023 Top photo is the badly scorched enormous banyan tree...

Matt's Weather Rapport: Two years ago today, Lahaina, Maui, Hawaii was destroyed by a massive wildfire that killed 102. Today, recovery is fitful at best. But a formerly scorched banyan tree is a symbol of hope. Details: matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/08/hawa...

A Story To Cool You Off: Rare Australian Snow A kangaroo bounces through the recent unusual snow in Australia.   Its winter Down Under, which usually isn't the kind of cold, snowy hell o...

Matt's Weather Rapport: Need something to put you in a cooler frame of mind in this heat? Check out this unusual Australian snowstorm: matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/08/a-st...

Is A Flash Drought Looming In Vermont/New England The latest U.S. Drought Monitor suddenly has much of Vermont designated as "abnormally dry" shown in areas shaded in yellow. Abnormally dry ...

Matt's Weather Rapport: After a wet start to the season is a flash drought developing in #Vermont and other parts of New England? Hot, dry forecast not encouraging. Details: matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/08/is-f...

Out Of Season "Winter" Storm Blasts UK, Disrupts Peak Tourist/Festival Season In Scotland Satellite view of powerful Storm Floris blasting the northern British Isles earlier this week.  A type of storm that usually hits the Britis...

Matts Weather Rapport: Winter-like storm #Floris blasted northern UK this week, Gusts to 13 mph, tens of thousands were without power. And it really messed up peak festival/tourist season in Scotland, at least briefly. Details: matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/08/scot...

Weird Vermont Wet Spots Amid Very Dry Week; Heat Wave Looms National Weather Service radar from around 6:15 a.m.  today showed slow moving showers and downpours in southern Vermont. While most of us a...

Matt's Weather Rapport: Local downpours create soggy spots in #Vermont and northern New England. Meanwhile, smoke lingers, building heat wave looms in August doldrums. Details: matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/08/weir...

Wednesday Morning In Vermont, Smoke Clears A Little, Summer Weather Rolls On This morning's air pollution map form iqair.com show improved air in northern New England (green dots) as the worst of the smoke is suppress...

Matt's Weather Rapport: The wildfire smoke in the #Vermont air has thinned a little. Will it last? And what's this idea of another heat wave coming? Answers here: matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/08/wedn...

European Heat Wave Killed Thousands In Disturbing Trend,, As Activists Refer To "Climate Breakdown." . An attribution study says an early summer European  heat wave was worsened by climate change and killed thousands. Meanwhile, the world cont...

Matt's Weather Rapport: Scientists did a rapid attribution on an earl summer European heat wave and concluded climate change influence might have caused nearly 1,500 extra deaths. Meanwhile new record heat waves roll on. Details: matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/08/euro...

Smoke Continues To Sting Vermont, And Many Other Areas As Heat Wave (Eventually) Looms Visible satellite photo from Monday afternoon showed most of the wildfire smoke sandwiched between a weak cold front in southern Quebec and ...

Matt's Weather Rapport: Wildfire smoke continues to choke us here in #Vermont and a lot of other places too. Meanwhile, chances up here in New England stay paltry, and is there another heat wave coming? Details: matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/08/more...

Lightning Strike Extended Over 500 Miles, There Might Be Even Bigger Ones. Also Lightning Contiinues To Kill Schematic shows the extent of what is now regarded as the biggest lighting flash on record, coming from a complex of storms in the southern ...

Matt's Weather Rapport: Lighting is always dramatic, but a 515-mile long strike? Details: matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/08/ligh...

Air Quality Still Crappy In Most Of U.S., Canada Including Vermont As Wildfires Rage Wildfire smoke from Canada turned the setting sun over Georgia, Vermont on Sunday into a weird, red dot. The dot eventually disappeared in t...

Matt's Weather Rapport: Wildfire smoke continues to choke us here in #Vermont and much of the rest of U.S. and Canada. No real end in sight. Details: matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/08/air-...

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"Slow" Start To Atlantic Hurricane Season Just Started Getting More Interesting The start of hurricane season has been a little sleepy, but now things are beginning to pick up, with two areas of interest now in the Atlan...

Matt's Weather Rapport: The early part of the Atlantic hurricane season has been snoozy, which is good, but August usually perks up and right on cue....... Details: matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/08/slow...

Sunday Vermont Update: The Smoke Is Back, And How Dry We Are, And Will Be Image from firesmoke.ca  shows smoke from fires in central Canada is spreading far and wide in North America, including here in Vermont  The...

Matt's Weather Rapport: The smoke is back, here in #Vermont and much of the rest of the northern U.S. Here in New England, extended dry spell puts us at risk of our own homegrown fires. Details: matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/08/sund...

August Is Vermont's Month For Historic Heat Waves, (Though Not Saying It Will Happen This Year, I Think) Then peak of summer might be over in August, but a majority of Vermont/New England's most intense heat waves have hit in August.   July is t...

Matt's Weather Rapport; August is past the peak of summer, but many of #Vermont and New England's most intense heat waves have hit in August. Details: matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/08/augu...

Stats Confirm: This July Is Yet Another Hot One, Third One In A Row A severe thunderstorm over Lamoille County on  July 10, as seen from a distance from Williston Vermont. Other than that date, severe  weathe...

Matt's Weather Rapport: The receipts are in for #Vermont climate in July, 2025. For 3rd year in a row, we're in top 10 list of hottest Julys, as climate change alters our perception of "normal" weather. Details: matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/08/stat...

Remarkable Vermont Temperature Crash On Friday, But It Won't Last Some interesting patterns in an otherwise dull gray overcast in St. Albans, Vermont late Friday afternoon, Friday was much cooler than the m...

Matt's Weather Rapport: Remarkable summer temperature crash in #Vermont 90 on Thursday. Low 60s Friday. Will summer come rushing back in? Details here: matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/08/rema...

Critical Hurricane Forecast Tool To Stay Active After All Visible satellite view of Hurricane Milton, which grew explosively in the Gulf of Mexico last year. At the last minute, the U.S. Defense Dep...

Matt's Weather Rapport: U.S. Defense Department thankfully reversed a bad decision that would have ended critical hurricane forecast capabilities. Details: matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/07/crit...

Thursday Morning Vermont Update: Cool, Rain South, Big Time Dry North This morning's radar, shown at around 7:30 a.m. makes it look like a lot of rain is falling. But most of it in central and northern Vermont ...

Matt's Weather Rapport: Southern #Vermont gets rain ,north mostly dry despite what radar looks like. Longest dry spell since last September coming, Chamber of Commerce weekend.. Details here: matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/07/thur...

Long Vermont Dry Spell Has Begun. At Least North And Central A little dew on this flower in my St. Albans, Vermont gardens this morning. But a generally dry forecast means I will be watering my gardens...

Matt's Weather Rapport: A long dry spell may have already started in parts of #Vermont and that will only intensify in the coming days. But some temperature changes, too. Details: matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/07/long...

Wicked Winds In The Upper Midwest As Wild Thunderstorms Sweep Through Ominous thunderstorms bear down on the Lewis and Clark Marina in Yankton, South Dakota Monday evening in this web cam grab. Violent storms c...

Matt's Weather Rapport: No word yet on whether those SD/Iowa/Minnesota storms were officially a #derecho but damage widespread amid gusts over 90 mph. Details: matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/07/wick...

One More Hot Day, But The Big Vermont (Temporary) Cool Down Is Just Starting Our outdoor living summer living space in St. Albans, Vermont. It looks like the weather will be conducive to enjoying it most of the time f...

Matt's Weather Rapport: Still hot in #Vermont and New England today but the first signs of the cooldown are starting to emerge. How cool will it get, how long will it last and will the smoke be back? Details here: matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/07/one-...

Another 90 Degree Day In Vermont, 12 Measured So Far This Year At Burlington Lots of hydrangeas soaking up the hot sun today in St. Albans, Vermont.   The temperature at Burlington, Vermont reached at least 90 degrees...

Matt's Weather Rapport; Today was the 12th time it got to 90 degrees in Burlington, #Vermont only the 20th time in the past 125 years we had that many.. Are more coming? Some forecast changes. Details: matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/07/anot...

Weather Conspiracy Theories Weirdly Gain Traction Over Reality The tin foil hat crowd is working overtime, with so many weather conspiracies that GOP politicians to pass unnecessary law, and put people i...

Matt's Weather Rapport: A deep dive into the conspiracy theories leading to "weather modification laws" and threats and weird public statements, and what's really behind them: matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/07/weat...

Monday Morning Weather: Dangerous Storms Northern Plain: Here In Vermont, Kinda Hot, Smoky As Late Week Dry Spell Looms A destructive derecho is possible in the northern Plains today especially in the orange and red areas on map, While some areas of the nation...

Matt's Weather Rapport: Tampa historic heat, dangerous derecho risk Upper Midwest today. Meanwhile, here in #Vermont dog days of summer continue, awaiting late week dry spell. .Details: matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/07/mond...