An arctic front slowly moved from northwest to southeast across VT during the morning hours of February 18th, bringing much colder air. Meanwhile, a weak surface wave was traveling northeast along this boundary.
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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 arctic front slowly moved from northwest to southeast across VT during the morning hours of February 18th, bringing much colder air. Meanwhile, a weak surface wave was traveling northeast along this boundary. The combination allowed for light rain to change to freezing rain and eventually sleet and snow through the midday hours of February 18th.
Ice accumulations were generally around a tenth (0.10) of an inch with sleet/snowfall totals of 1 to 2 inches that created hazardous travel.
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 Feb 18, 12:57 AM EST, 3 minutes earlier.
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11 winter weather. Local standard time, as filed.
Rain changed to freezing rain and accumulated to a tenth of an inch or less, followed by 1/2 of sleet and then snowfall accumulating 1-2 inches created hazardous driving conditions especially around the morning commute.
Rain changed to freezing rain and accumulated to a tenth of an inch or less, followed by 1/2 of sleet and then snowfall accumulating 1-2 inches created hazardous driving conditions especially around the morning commute.
Rain changed to freezing rain and accumulated to a tenth of an inch or less, followed by 1/2 of sleet and then snowfall accumulating 1-2 inches created hazardous driving conditions especially around the morning commute.
Rain changed to freezing rain and accumulated to a tenth of an inch or less, followed by 1/2 of sleet and then snowfall accumulating 1-2 inches created hazardous driving conditions especially around the morning commute.
Rain changed to freezing rain and accumulated to a tenth of an inch or less, followed by 1/2 of sleet and then snowfall accumulating 1-2 inches created hazardous driving conditions especially around the morning commute.
Rain changed to freezing rain and accumulated to a tenth of an inch or less, followed by 1/2 of sleet and then snowfall accumulating 1-2 inches created hazardous driving conditions especially around the morning commute.
Rain changed to freezing rain and accumulated to a tenth of an inch or less, followed by 1/2 of sleet and then snowfall accumulating 1-2 inches created hazardous driving conditions especially around the morning commute.
Rain changed to freezing rain and accumulated to a tenth of an inch or less, followed by 1/2 of sleet and then snowfall accumulating 1-2 inches created hazardous driving conditions especially around the morning commute.
Rain changed to freezing rain and accumulated to a tenth of an inch or less, followed by 1/2 of sleet and then snowfall accumulating 1-2 inches created hazardous driving conditions especially around the morning commute.
Rain changed to freezing rain and accumulated to a tenth of an inch or less, followed by 1/2 of sleet and then snowfall accumulating 1-2 inches created hazardous driving conditions especially around the morning commute.
Rain changed to freezing rain and accumulated to a tenth of an inch or less, followed by 1/2 of sleet and then snowfall accumulating 1-2 inches created hazardous driving conditions especially around the morning commute.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Vermont in 2022Every state in 2022This day in weather historyWarnings in Vermont, February 2022
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 2026-09-30. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 1000678, 1000679, 1000680, 1000681, 1000682, 1000683, 1000684, 1000685, 1000686, 1000687, 1000688.