Vermont Seasons
Northeastern Vermont experiences very cold weather in the winter. Sometimes the
winter lasts nearly five months, starting early in November and ending late in March. There is
still plenty of snow left on the mountains for good skiing even in April.
Seattle and Tacoma Washington might actually be situated further north than Northeastern
Vermont, but their winters are nowhere nearly as cold and generally very wet. The reason
being the warm humid pacific ocean winds that flow continually from west to east over the
whole state. The Cascade mountain range rise high in the east of Washington and the cold
peaks cause the warm moist air to condense and, as a result, it rains continually through
most of the year in Seattle and Tacoma.
Frigid Arctic air spills down over Northern Vermont in the winter instead, the jet stream
carrying it down as well as influencing most of the continental United States the same way
but not as severe the further south you go.
Lengthening and, of course, warmer days make for striking growth in the Spring and,
likewise. abrupt cooling in the Fall has the opposite effect and the well known, brilliantly
colored, landscapes of Vermont appear with their reds and yellows and browns.
These changes in seasons are remarkable and had a specially powerful effect on Rinny
who had just been smitten by as beautiful a creature you could imagine actually dancing with
a motion perhaps imitating the currents snowflake laden air coming in
from the northwest.
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