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10.10.11 A Hot Columbus Day!

Once again temperatures soared into the 70s Monday with a large high pressure ridge in control and plenty of sunshine.

The actual high temperature actually reached 76 degrees at Burlington.  I didn't give this map a chance to update before writing the blog :)  These temperatures are very unusual.  Typically the highs reach to around 60 degrees.  Springfield, VT was again a hot spot on the map reaching 81 degrees!

Compared to other Columbus Day(s) at Burlington, this one was certainly different.

The following data is from the Burlington International Airport in South Burlington ,VT.  I took data from the last five years on Columbus Day and compared it to today.

Overall it seems Columbus Day at BTV is dry.  We only had two days in the last six years with precipitation, and one of those days was trace which is the least amount of precipitation that can be recorded.  Sometimes the weather gets very chilly.  2009 and 2010 experienced chilly low temperatures of 30 and 37 degrees.  The warmest Columbus Day in this stretch was in 2006....until 2011.

By far this was the warmest Columbus Day in the last several years.  It caps off a stretch of warm and dry weather this Columbus Day weekend.

Friday was the only day that was "average".  After that our low temperatures started to only drop into the middle 40s.  Meanwhile high temperatures rose well into the 70s and even 80 on Sunday.  The high temperatures were well above-average, some 15 to 20 degrees.