What Snowstorm?

TV weathermen are calling the March 6 - 7 weather event the third biggest Vermont snowstorm on record but you'd never know it from just looking around Springfield.

Most of northern Vermont received anywhere from 18 to 30 inches of snow and parts of southern Vermont got 8 to 10 inches but you could get away without shoveling the small amount of snow that fell on Springfield.

The Sunday forecast for Springfield had been rain in the morning turning to snow in the afternoon. When it became obvious the temps weren't dropping below freezing as fast as expected, the local forecast was revised to changing over to sleet and snow in the evening. But a warm pocket must have been hanging over southern Windsor County as Springfield continued to get mostly rain, only accumulating an inch or two of the white stuff near the end. Flooded basements in the morning were a complete surprise to some.

There was some freezing rain overnight which froze to trees and anything else outside but it was mostly a thin coating, not the extreme tree-bending heavy layer we've seen from past winter ice storms. Still, in the higher elevation areas of town, it did cause some trees to fall on power lines resulting in long power outages to nearby residents but only interrupting power briefly to most other residents in town.