Matt Sutkoski
@mattweathervt.bsky.social
Vermont-based climate and weather blogger/reporter Also, gardens, photography, nature, humor
Matt's Weather Rapport: Update here, as #winterstorm watches are popping up from northeast Pennsylvania to southern Maine. Track of the storm uncertain and will determine whether this comes true. Details: matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/11/wint...
Winter Storm Watches Now Up In the Northeast, Including Parts of Vermont
That dark blue area from northeastern Pennsylvania to Maine is a winter storm watch as heavy snow might fall in that band on Tuesday. That s...
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November 30, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Matt's Weather Rapport: Update here, as #winterstorm watches are popping up from northeast Pennsylvania to southern Maine. Track of the storm uncertain and will determine whether this comes true. Details: matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/11/wint...
Matt's Weather Rapport: #NOAA got caught up after the government shutdown, and gave us their climate report for October. The world had its third hottest October on record, exactly like the previous three months. Details: matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/11/octo...
October Was World's Third Warmest, Continuing This Year's Trend
Once again it was hard to find many cool spots around the world. It was the third hottest October on record according to NOAA. The National...
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November 30, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Matt's Weather Rapport: #NOAA got caught up after the government shutdown, and gave us their climate report for October. The world had its third hottest October on record, exactly like the previous three months. Details: matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/11/octo...
Matt's Weather Rapport: This will be the first truly wintry week in #Vermont Blustery, raw, dark today; possible snowstorm Tuesday, Arctic blast Thursday. Details: matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/11/blus...
Blustery Snow Today To Introduce A Very Wintry Vermont Week
This the National Weather Service's initial attempt at a snow forecast for the week. It includes the light snows today and the potentially h...
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November 30, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Matt's Weather Rapport: This will be the first truly wintry week in #Vermont Blustery, raw, dark today; possible snowstorm Tuesday, Arctic blast Thursday. Details: matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/11/blus...
Matt's Weather Rapport: A vast #winterstorm is spreading lots of snow across the Midwest, leading to horrible roads and over 1,000 flight delays already. Details here: matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/11/wint...
Winter Storm Making Travel Weekend Miserable In U.S., Especially Midwest
A must-vehicle crash amid on Interstate 70 in western Indiana on Saturday. A huge swath of the Midwest is under winter storm warnings today ...
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November 29, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Matt's Weather Rapport: A vast #winterstorm is spreading lots of snow across the Midwest, leading to horrible roads and over 1,000 flight delays already. Details here: matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/11/wint...
Matt's Weather Rapport: Trump administration keeps denying disaster aid to Illinois. Trumpsters say it's not fiscally responsible. But many, many people believe it's a function of his feud with Illinois' governor. Details: matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/11/illi...
Illinois Disaster Appeal Rejection Shows Once Again Trump Puts Loyalty Above All Else
Flooding in Chicago this past July. Donald Trump is blocking disaster aid to Illinois, probably mostly because he doesn't like the state's g...
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November 29, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Matt's Weather Rapport: Trump administration keeps denying disaster aid to Illinois. Trumpsters say it's not fiscally responsible. But many, many people believe it's a function of his feud with Illinois' governor. Details: matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/11/illi...
Matt's Weather Rapport: Lake effect #snow bands that originated over Lake Huron made it all the way to the New England coast yesterday as winter reasserts itself. More wintry weather due in region. Details: matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/11/wint...
Winter, Now Re-Established In Vermont, Will Keep Meteorologists On Their Toes
When winter winds returned on Friday, things got a little weird in parts of New England. It snowed in parts of the region, thanks of all thi...
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November 29, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Matt's Weather Rapport: Lake effect #snow bands that originated over Lake Huron made it all the way to the New England coast yesterday as winter reasserts itself. More wintry weather due in region. Details: matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/11/wint...
Matt's Weather Rapport: Flooding across several Southeast Asia nations has killed hundreds. The disaster is consistent with #climatechange as storms are heavier, floods are bigger. Details: matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/11/sout...
Southeast Asia Floods Kill Hundreds In Another Big Flood Megadisaster
Image of the flooding in Indonesia via Reuters. Deadly floods have encompassed much of Southeast Asia recently, leading to at least 450 de...
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November 28, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Matt's Weather Rapport: Flooding across several Southeast Asia nations has killed hundreds. The disaster is consistent with #climatechange as storms are heavier, floods are bigger. Details: matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/11/sout...
Matt's Weather Rapport: The latest U.S. Drought Monitor shows improvement in #Vermont drought conditions stalled last week. Hopefully, that's temporary in an active weather pattern. Details: matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/11/verm...
Vermont Drought Recovery Stalls, Hopefully Temporarily
Vermont's improvement from this summer and autumn's deep drought stalled in the past week, as only light amounts of precipitation fell rece...
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November 28, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Matt's Weather Rapport: The latest U.S. Drought Monitor shows improvement in #Vermont drought conditions stalled last week. Hopefully, that's temporary in an active weather pattern. Details: matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/11/verm...
Matt's Weather Rapport: A little lake effect snow made it into #Vermont all the way from Lake Huron, which is impressive. Next up, small mixed storm Sunday, and the chance of a snowy nor'easter toward Tuesday? Details: matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/11/back...
Back To Winter In Vermont As Several Snow Chances (With Rain Thrown In) Coming Up
National Weather Service radar from around 9 this morning. You can see a band of snow moving into southern Vermont. That's lake effect, orig...
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November 28, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Matt's Weather Rapport: A little lake effect snow made it into #Vermont all the way from Lake Huron, which is impressive. Next up, small mixed storm Sunday, and the chance of a snowy nor'easter toward Tuesday? Details: matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/11/back...
Matt's Weather Rapport: #Vermont Gov Phil Scott has appealed Trump's rejection of disaster aid to help with flood damage from this past summer. A for effort, but I'm not holding my breath on this one. Details: matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/11/verm...
Vermont Appeals Trump Disaster Aid Denial, But Good Luck Convincing Trump We Should Get It
The administration of Vermont Gov. Phil Scott has appealed Trump's rejection of disaster aid stemming from flooding in the Northeast King...
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November 27, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Matt's Weather Rapport: #Vermont Gov Phil Scott has appealed Trump's rejection of disaster aid to help with flood damage from this past summer. A for effort, but I'm not holding my breath on this one. Details: matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/11/verm...
Matt's Weather Rapport: Snow has melted in most of Vermont for this Thanksgiving. Historically, despite the old song about sleighing to grandmother's house, there's seldom snow on the ground here on this holiday. matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/11/not-...
Not A White Thanksgiving In Vermont, Which Is Fine, But December Could Be Snowy (Results May Vary)
Latest snow forecast for the next couple of days. National Weather Service has backed off a little on how much snow wil fall in the Green Mo...
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November 27, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Matt's Weather Rapport: Snow has melted in most of Vermont for this Thanksgiving. Historically, despite the old song about sleighing to grandmother's house, there's seldom snow on the ground here on this holiday. matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/11/not-...
Matt's Weather Rapport: What looks like an alien mothership hovered over #MountWashington New Hampshire. It wasn't that, and here's the explanation: matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/11/moun...
Mount Washington Helps Create Spectacular "Mothership" Cloud
Colby Morris took this photo of a spectacular lenticular cloud over Mount Washington, New Hampshire Tuesday. There's a photo floating around...
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November 26, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Matt's Weather Rapport: What looks like an alien mothership hovered over #MountWashington New Hampshire. It wasn't that, and here's the explanation: matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/11/moun...
Matt's Weather Rapport: Thanksgiving weather in #Vermont this year looks like it will be relatively tame. But that's not the case in parts of New York. Past Vermont Thanksgivings also have been rough. Details: matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/11/verm...
Vermont Thanksgiving Weather Looking Pretty Safe. Elsewhere, And In Past Years, Not So Much
It'll be a blustery, but otherwise pretty tame Thanksgiving in Vermont. But between Thursday night and Saturday morning, most of us will se...
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November 26, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Matt's Weather Rapport: Thanksgiving weather in #Vermont this year looks like it will be relatively tame. But that's not the case in parts of New York. Past Vermont Thanksgivings also have been rough. Details: matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/11/verm...
Damaging #tornadoes hit the Houston suburbs yesterday. Part of a "second tornado season" that often hits toward the end of the year. We explain what/why that is and why #climatechange could make it worse: matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/11/torn...
Tornadoes Near Houston Wrecks Homes, Part Of "Second Tornado Season"
Menacing clouds about to put down a tornado yesterday near Klein, Texas. Tornadoes swept through suburbs northwest of Houston Monday, lea...
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November 25, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Damaging #tornadoes hit the Houston suburbs yesterday. Part of a "second tornado season" that often hits toward the end of the year. We explain what/why that is and why #climatechange could make it worse: matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/11/torn...
Matt's Weather Rapport: Mild out there in #Vermont today for a change, even a bit toastier than forecast. Don't get used to it. After tomorrow, it's back to active and mostly chilly weather well into December. Details: matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/11/warm...
Warm Air Already Over-Performing In Some Spots In Vermont Enjoy, Won't Last Long
This month's snow caught us off guard before we put deck furniture away. The warm ground allowed the snow to mostly melt (see background) b...
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November 25, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Matt's Weather Rapport: Mild out there in #Vermont today for a change, even a bit toastier than forecast. Don't get used to it. After tomorrow, it's back to active and mostly chilly weather well into December. Details: matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/11/warm...
Matt's Weather Rapport: AI is obviously the Next Big Thing. Will it save us from the wrath of #climatechange or will it force us to drown in it instead? Details: matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/11/will...
Will AI Fight Climate Change Or Make It Much Worse? Hot Debate On The Topic Now
AI is obviously the Next Big Thing. Illustration from Appen Like it or not, it's invading all aspects of our lives. And of course, AI will...
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November 24, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Matt's Weather Rapport: AI is obviously the Next Big Thing. Will it save us from the wrath of #climatechange or will it force us to drown in it instead? Details: matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/11/will...
Matt's Weather Rapport: Vermont is about to have a couple mild days for the first time in over two weeks. But the chill we have experienced this month would have been pretty normal a generation or two ago. Details: matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/11/firs... #climatechange
First Warmer Than Averages Temperatures In 2 Weeks Coming To Vermont, But Don't Bring Out The Swimsuits
Typically blah November this morning in St. Albans, Vermont with still some snow on the ground. After a long cool stretch, we might have a ...
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November 24, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Matt's Weather Rapport: Vermont is about to have a couple mild days for the first time in over two weeks. But the chill we have experienced this month would have been pretty normal a generation or two ago. Details: matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/11/firs... #climatechange
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Forces of winter
ready for their first frigid
act of the season.
ready for their first frigid
act of the season.
November 22, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Forces of winter
ready for their first frigid
act of the season.
ready for their first frigid
act of the season.
Matt's Weather Rapport: A relatively small glacier in Antarctica crumbled abruptly. Is this a penguin in the coal mine for what might happen with much bigger glaciers? Sea levels could rise more than expected if so. Details: matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/11/coul... #climatechange
Could A Small But Rapidly Disintegrating Antarctic Glacier Climate Change Danger Signal?
Hektoria glacier in Antarctica was largely reduced to debris ice after it abruptly retreated at a record pace. Photo by Naomi Ochwat When yo...
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November 23, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Matt's Weather Rapport: A relatively small glacier in Antarctica crumbled abruptly. Is this a penguin in the coal mine for what might happen with much bigger glaciers? Sea levels could rise more than expected if so. Details: matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/11/coul... #climatechange
Matt's Weather Rapport: After some needed sunshine in #Vermont Saturday, it's back to the light snow and low elevation raindrops today. Thanksgiving travel week looking pretty easy so far. Details: matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/11/a-li...
A Little Snow Today In Vermont, Then A Short Mild Interval Until Thanksgiving
Some puffy clouds behind the trees on a Saturday that gave us a chance to see some rare November Vermont sun The sun came out Saturday afte...
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November 23, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Matt's Weather Rapport: After some needed sunshine in #Vermont Saturday, it's back to the light snow and low elevation raindrops today. Thanksgiving travel week looking pretty easy so far. Details: matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/11/a-li...
Matt's Weather Rapport: Iran is suffering through a drought so extreme that there has been a little talk of evacuating Tehran's 9.8 million people. To where? #Climate change has had a role, but so has an inept government. Details: matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/11/tehr...
Tehran, Iran Latest Big City On Verge Of Running Out Of Water In Drought
Iran is enduring a severe drought and some areas including Tehran, population nearly 10 million could run out of water. Millions of people...
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November 22, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Matt's Weather Rapport: Iran is suffering through a drought so extreme that there has been a little talk of evacuating Tehran's 9.8 million people. To where? #Climate change has had a role, but so has an inept government. Details: matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/11/tehr...
Matt's Weather Rapport: The U.S is sitting out the COP30 #climate conference in Brazil, because Trump is alleging to climate change science. But fossil fuel lobbyists are certainly there. Details: matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/11/us-s...
U.S. Sat Out Major UN Climate Conference, But Lobbyists Swarmed It
The United States is AWOL from the UN climate talks in Brazil, while fossil fuel lobbyists are there big time. The United States embarrassi...
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November 22, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Matt's Weather Rapport: The U.S is sitting out the COP30 #climate conference in Brazil, because Trump is alleging to climate change science. But fossil fuel lobbyists are certainly there. Details: matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/11/us-s...
Matt's Weather Rapport: As the forces of Arctic cold gather in northern Canada for eventual visits in the U.S. we in #Vermont are in a holding pattern: We're past autumn but not quite in winter. Details: matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/11/hold...
Holding Our Breath Until Winter REALLY Hits In Vermont
Snow is finally almost melted away in my yard in St. Albans, Vermont after the storm 12 days ago. For the next few days, we'll be in a never...
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November 22, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Matt's Weather Rapport: As the forces of Arctic cold gather in northern Canada for eventual visits in the U.S. we in #Vermont are in a holding pattern: We're past autumn but not quite in winter. Details: matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/11/hold...
Matt's Weather Rapport: The acting director of #FEMA has called it quits. No great loss, he was pretty ineffective. But the agency is still a mess thanks to the Trump administration. This continues to endanger the public. Details: matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/11/acti...
Acting FEMA Director Who Didn't Know We Had Hurricane Season Leaves To Celebrate Hurricane Season End
David Richardson, the hands-off acting head of FEMA is leaving the position at the end of this month. But FEMA is still in crisis big time,...
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November 21, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Matt's Weather Rapport: The acting director of #FEMA has called it quits. No great loss, he was pretty ineffective. But the agency is still a mess thanks to the Trump administration. This continues to endanger the public. Details: matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/11/acti...
Matt's Weather Rapport: Confirmed this week: #HurricaneMelissa set a record for highest gust detected in a hurricane, 252 mph. Had to be terrifying in Jamaica and might well be a scary trend. Details: matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/11/hurr...
Hurricane Melissa Had World Record Wind Speed, Could Be Part Of Terrifying Trend
A dramatic view from inside the eye of Hurricane Melissa near Jamaica. Photo was taken for a hurricane hunter plane. One of those planes dr...
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November 21, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Matt's Weather Rapport: Confirmed this week: #HurricaneMelissa set a record for highest gust detected in a hurricane, 252 mph. Had to be terrifying in Jamaica and might well be a scary trend. Details: matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/11/hurr...