Vermont’s clear blue skies on Monday could see a touch of white when the solar eclipse’s path of totality sweeps across the state, but visibility is not expected to be greatly impacted.
“We’re all sitting here anxiously watching,” Adrianna Kremer, a meteorologist in the National Weather Service’s Burlington office, said at around 11:15 a.m. Monday.
Kremer said the weather service was monitoring two batches of clouds headed for the Green Mountain State. High-level clouds were sweeping east from the Adirondacks and beginning to appear in the Champlain Valley, she said, and would “slowly keep creeping across Vermont.”
Those high-level clouds are not likely to obscure the eclipse, she said. Rather, they’ll create a “milky,” “filtered” view. They are also unlikely to reach Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom counties of Caledonia, Essex and Orleans.
More problematic is a batch of thicker, lower-level clouds moving west from Rochester, New York. Those could obscure the eclipse, Kremer said, but they are not currently expected to reach Vermont by 3:26 p.m., when totality begins.
“We’re keeping a close eye on those,” she said. “It’s more of a wait-and-see kind of game at this point: How quickly do those clouds move into Vermont?”
