An early season Nor'easter developed off the Mid-Atlantic coast on October 29th and quickly intensified as it moved just southeast of Cape Cod into the Gulf of Maine by October 30th. Vermont sparred the brunt of the storm, as the greatest accumulations and impacts affected southern and eastern New England as well as southeast New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
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Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
The episode as NWS BTV wrote it up.
An early season Nor'easter developed off the Mid-Atlantic coast on October 29th and quickly intensified as it moved just southeast of Cape Cod into the Gulf of Maine by October 30th. Vermont sparred the brunt of the storm, as the greatest accumulations and impacts affected southern and eastern New England as well as southeast New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
Snowfall totals ranged from a few flakes in northwest Vermont, 2 to 4 inches in the central Green Mountains and northeast Vermont, 5 to 10 inches in Windsor county to more than a foot in southeast Vermont.
This allowed for some hazardous travel with only isolated to scattered power outages in southeast Vermont.
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Burlington, VT wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Oct 29, 6:17 PM EST, 43 minutes earlier.
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</html>The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 winter storm, 1 winter weather. Local standard time, as filed.
Some snowfall reports included; 6 inches in Woodstock, 7 inches in Ludlow and 10 inches in Springfield.
Snowfall in Orange county ranged from 3 to 5 inches, including 4 inches in Chelsea, Corinth and Newbury and 5 inches in Strafford.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Vermont in 2011Every state in 2011This day in weather historyWarnings in Vermont, October 2011
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 348746, 348747.