Burlington, VT weather
Right now 36°, clear · today 62° / 49°, cloudy · seven days from the National Weather Service
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Right now · 36° · clear · calm · 7° cooler than this time yesterday · at Burlington, 3:40 AM
Today, in the Weather Service’s words
Mostly cloudy, with a high near 62. South wind 7 to 21 mph, with gusts as high as 33 mph.
Seven days
Winter in Burlington
Burlington averages 88 inches of snow a year, according to NOAA’s 1991-2020 climate normals - a heavy snow place. Serious winters and the equipment to match. It takes a genuinely big storm to close school.
That is why local snowfall thresholds differ so much from one town to the next: a district that plans for 88 inches a year is equipped differently from one that never sees any. Here, roughly 8 inches in a single storm is where a normal school day comes under threat.
Upper air over Burlington
The nearest radiosonde launch is Albany, about 123 miles away. A weather balloon goes up twice a day and measures temperature, humidity and wind all the way through the atmosphere - which is what forecasters actually read to judge whether storms will fire, and how a surface forecast was arrived at.
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Sources: National Weather Service forecast and hourly grid for Burlington (api.weather.gov), updated Wed, 6:23 AM UTC. Sunrise and sunset from NOAA’s solar position calculations. Snowfall normals from NOAA’s 1991-2020 US Climate Normals. County lines from the US Census Bureau.