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FXUS61 KBTV 021415
AFDBTV

Area Forecast Discussion
National Weather Service Burlington VT
Issued by National Weather Service Albany NY
1015 AM EDT Mon Jun 2 2025

.SYNOPSIS...
Any remaining showers will move out by mid morning. After, dry
weather should generally prevail through midweek, and it will be
accompanied by a drastic warming trend. By Wednesday,
temperatures will be approaching record highs in some areas. The
next shower and thunder chances are late in the week.

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.NEAR TERM /THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT/...
As of 1013 AM EDT Monday...Clearing continues from west to east
across the area and showers have completely moved out of the
region. No big changes for the first morning update.

Previous Discussion...A broken line of showers is currently
situated southwest to northeast from the southern Champlain
Valley into north central Vermont. The line will continue to
push southeast and it will be out of the region by mid morning.
Clouds will clear quickly behind this line so the day should be
mostly sunny. Due to cold air aloft, diurnal heating will cause
cumulus development in the afternoon. An isolated spot shower
cannot be completely ruled out, but with a very dry layer in the
lower atmosphere, anything that forms will likely not reach the
ground. Highs will be in the 60s to around 70 with low
humidity. Downsloping could cause the eastern Adirondacks to be
a couple degrees warmer. Despite the warmer temperatures, deep
mixing to around 5,000 feet will create a tall area of dry
adiabatic lapse rates, so mountain temperatures will be much
colder. Highs there will likely be in the mid 40s to mid 50s.
Skies clear once the sun goes down and winds should go mostly
calm, and this will set the stage for decent radiational cooling
conditions tonight. However, there may be just enough boundary
layer wind to prevent the surface from completely decoupling.
Lows will be in the upper 30s and 40s for most places. Pockets
of very isolated frost are possible in the coldest hollows of
the Adirondacks and Northeast Kingdom. Temperatures will warm
quickly on Wednesday as flow becomes more southerly, and they
should rise into the 70s to around 80. Westerly flow will likely
again cause some additional warming along the eastern
Adirondacks from downsloping, so some of the lower elevations
there could approach the mid 80s.

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.SHORT TERM /WEDNESDAY/...
As of 348 AM EDT Monday...Previous discussion for this period
still holds...Quiet weather is expected for mid-week as upper
level ridging and surface high pressure develop over the
Northeast while an exiting mid/upper level trough closes off and
stalls east of the benchmark. This allows for a longer
residence time of the ridge, supplying some much needed dry
conditions and seasonally warm to above normal temperatures.

850/925mb temperatures +15-17C/+21-23C on Wednesday which
supports 80s to perhaps a few L90s but HRRR Vert Integrated
Smoke shows dense smoke layer moving across area late Tuesday-
Tuesday night on westerly winds aloft but then high shifts east
with more of a WSW return flow into Wednesday, but based on some
smoke models...the smoke layer will likely still be prevalent
for much of the day. The good news is most of the smoke should
stay aloft with limited impacts and it will likely keep
temperatures from reaching their potential but still well into
the 80s.Attm...after coordinating with neighboring offices will
leave out haze in the weather as horizontal vsby shouldn`t be
affected, but the sky will look milky/hazy.

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.LONG TERM /WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY/...
As of 348 AM EDT Monday...By Thursday morning...the upper ridge
axis should be across eastern VT or points east allowing a
series of shortwave troughs to traverse the region through the
end of the week.

Increasing moisture ahead of a weak surface cold front noted by
progged PWATs near 1.5" combined with surface temps in the U70s
to M80s should produce sufficient instability for scattered
showers and thunderstorms to develop Thursday into Thursday
night. Flow is WSW parallel to weak cold front and with the
first shortwave lifting northeast away from the area and upper
low still east, would expect front to stall across the area
until another shortwave pushes it eastward.

It`s Friday and Saturday that look still uncertain as the
timing and strength of future shortwaves will determine if it`s
just instability shra/tsra on Friday (GFS) awaiting a surface
low for Saturday or more of a weak surface low along the
boundary with numerous activity late Friday-Friday night
(ECMWF/Canadian) with still some instability -shra Saturday as
northern stream shortwave axis rotates across the area.
Ensembles tend to blend it all together but are leaning on the
latter. WSW parallel flow along front rich PWATs and 250mb RR
Entrance across Quebec suggests potential training activity once
again with some potential lift due to close proximity of 250mb
RRQ across Quebec.

It still looks like it will be dry and seasonable on Sunday.

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.AVIATION /14Z MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY/...
Through 12Z Tuesday...Low clouds and showers exiting eastern VT
as we speak with clearing behind it. Therefore VFR conditions
with FEW-SKC largely from 15z onward. SSW winds under 10 kts
will become WNW around 10 kts with gusts to 15-16 kts but then
diminishing to light aft 00z and continuing thru the period.

Outlook...

Tuesday: VFR. NO SIG WX.
Tuesday Night: VFR. NO SIG WX.
Wednesday: VFR. NO SIG WX.
Wednesday Night: VFR. Chance SHRA.
Thursday: VFR. Chance SHRA, Chance TSRA.
Thursday Night: VFR. Chance SHRA.
Friday: VFR. Chance SHRA, Slight chance TSRA.

&&

.BTV WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
VT...None.
NY...None.

&&

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SYNOPSIS...Myskowski
NEAR TERM...Myskowski/Neiles
SHORT TERM...SLW
LONG TERM...SLW
AVIATION...SLW